Monthly Archives: December 2005

By far, the best place to experience Advent during a church service is NOT in the sanctuary. If you really want to embrace the ‘uproar in bethleham’ – do some time in the nursery/creche. This is a shot taken whilst I was working in the 2 year old room last Sunday. Granted, the sanctuary was illuminated with candlelight, lovely evergreens adorning the pews, ect. It compels one toward lofty thoughts … There’s more to read here.

There is something distinctly apophatic about the evening commute on an American highway. This is a picture taken as I was heading home last night – cars all moving fairly well at 60 mph after bottlenecking and slowing to a standstill so everyone could be a voyeur at a fender-bender. It is not what happens, but what doesnt happen that consumes the mind (and fuel) of a commuter – the … There’s more to read here.

The work has begun as the students have fled the campus – stacks of blue books, essays, and journal reports are now what remains of ten weeks together as teacher and students. Strange the way things become reduced to mere words and bullet points on Power Point slides…

TS Eliot measured life with coffee spoons – if I don’t get cracking on this marking, I will measuring my life by

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