I took the day off work today – how I miss my four day weeks from 5 years ago! I spent way too much time fiddling around with blog templates and themes, got some washing done, started a knitting project, read a book. It was a quiet day. I wrote a lot last night and I’m still processing that thinking a bit. I have promised baking for a colleague tomorrow and have a challenge I want to get my head around with a new software...
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Last night in the train on the way home I was reading the questionnaire on the vocation and mission of the family in the Church and the Contemporary world in case I decided to go to a meeting discussing it later that evening. Anyone who knows me at all will understand that I had some “moments”. While on the surface the questions are open-ended, the “right” answer is often in the questions or the question is...
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Be warned – today could deteriorate into pure rant. Today there was this decision that New Zealand would send armed forces to Iraq. No matter which way you argue this we have “chosen a side”. I remember the first Gulf War – and my husband and his friends utter fascination with the long range missile strikes. While they gloried in the technology, and the accuracy, all I (and many of my women friends) could think...
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There are days when you wish for the world to magic away , to be able to sit in a corner and hide away from all the things to do swirling about you. Last night I ended up watching a technology programme hosted by Stephen Hawkings and he commented on how technology was supposed to give us more time. Instead with more technology the pace of life has sped up so we are constantly filling up our time with more and more things to do. We are...
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I feel I should comment that now I have read the fuller text of what Pope Francis said he is promoting a rather more active view of overcoming indifference than being reflective. And I will think about that (whoops – unintentional irony there) i guess the tricky thing for most of us who work, and are still pulling double shift with family is that there are a lot of people telling us what we should be doing as well but no-one...
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There is an option to choose the negative choice. There was a thread of that at Webstock on Friday. To focus on the darkness, the insidiousness of evil, and our powerlessness in the face of it. I almost tweeted during Cory Doctorow‘s talk that this is why we we need more women in tech, so the narrative of destruction can be balanced by a narrative of creation. I am not naive, and I recognise the potential for harm – but my...
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So after my reflection on the train – the first speaker at Webstock, Elle Luna focused on finding the pathway that finds a balance between our “shoulds” and what we “must”do to meet our personal calling. While she recognised the potential tension between a job, a career and a calling the line that somehow took my breath away and keeps repeating itself in my head is: “Where do you go to find a dream...
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This morning in the train I was thinking about Lent, and about some Facebook friends talking about “giving something up”. I find it interesting that the idea of giving something up or making a change at this time of year seems so attractive to some people, even those without the context of a Catholic tradition. Pope Francis tweeted earlier this week “during Lent let us find ways to overcome our indifference”....
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