lent

It’s a long time since I last wrote here – one of my more private reflection spaces. It seems important to try and capture a little of how I am feeling right now and it seems slightly symbolic that Ash Wednesday this year was the last day of my six weeks post surgery. There were various timelines for how quickly I would recover from a laproscopic sigmoid colonectomy ranging from 4-8 weeks. I was feeling pretty good after...

When I started this collection of thoughts during Lent in 2015, I would never in my wildest imaginings have thought I would be sitting here in Malaysia 3 years later. When I started I wanted to use this as a way to capture meandering thoughts that might help me identify a pathway to what next. In 2018 while the path has taken many twists and turns I am coming to another point of what next. And it seems appropriate somehow that I am...

I have just been to the supermarket and had one of those experiences where I kept having to bite my tongue. For most of my trip through. the aisles I was in step with a couple with two small children, the mother with about a 9 month old in the stroller, the father with the a 2 1/2 to 3 yr old in the trolley. As could be expected around 4.30 on a Saturday afternoon the toddler was restless and bothersome. Both his parents kept up a bit...