aversion therapy

March 28, 2008 in getting over myself

It’s time I got over my aversion to Christians talking excitedly about Bono. The truth is that I worry that we’re getting too sycophantic, that we’re simply outsourcing our activism or that we’re admiring him more for his celebrity than his faith-in-action.
But I just saw this clip. And I felt stirred. [...]

if simon cowell’s worked out the truth…

March 19, 2008 in getting over myself

…then surely there’s hope for this world? Read the story here about how he’s still buzzing form his first philanthropic-high.
He’s right. There’s something about giving stuff away that brings out the flavors in life.

time to become…

March 11, 2008 in grieving, new normals

There has never been a time when I have felt so lost for words. They usually come easily – like soldiers that I call up, reservists waiting with their bags packed. I summon them and set them in formation – rows across a page, marking out the territories recently discovered.But now now.
These days there’s much [...]

will you please tame your ego?

March 7, 2008 in we can do better than this

Is this the beginning of the end of facebook? With numbers dropping in the UK it looks like we might have an exodus on our hands. Why? Well, somewhere among the chaos of different reasons that crowd like unpaired socks into an oversized bottom drawer, I think I have an idea… and an allergy.

The deal [...]

back to normal

March 3, 2008 in grieving, new normals

It’s been 18 days since mum died. Today’s my first back in my old routine – down to my office after waving the kids off, working through the inbox and filling up the calendar.
It all feels familiar – like I’ve seen this routine played out countless times in a favorite film -  and there’s a [...]