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Advent day 9: Mess is Mine
When you think of love, do you think of pain?... This mess was yours, Now your mess is mine Mess is Mine, Vance Joy Today’s lyrics carry...
Dec 9, 20192 min read
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Advent Day 8: Ain't No Cure for Love
There’s nothing pure enough to be a cure for love… It's written in the scriptures It's written there in blood And I even heard the angels...
Dec 8, 20191 min read
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Advent Day 7: Fix You
I realise my chosen lyrics for today’s reflection are particularly un-christmassy. They’re beautiful in a funereal sort of way.
Dec 7, 20192 min read
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Advent Day 6: Run Boy Run
Run boy run! This world is not made for you Run boy run! They're trying to catch you… Tomorrow is another day And you won't have to hide...
Dec 6, 20193 min read
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Advent Day 5: Hunger
We never found the answer but we knew one thing. We all have a hunger .... You make a fool of death with your beauty, And for a moment I...
Dec 5, 20192 min read
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Advent Day 4: I Will Wait
So take my flesh And fix my eyes A tethered mind free from the lies And I'll kneel down Wait for now I'll kneel down Know my ground Raise...
Dec 4, 20192 min read
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Advent Day 3: In the Blood
And what about this feeling that I'm never good enough? Will it wash out in the water, or is it always in the blood? …. Could I change it...
Dec 3, 20192 min read
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Advent Day 2: Blue Lips
They started off beneath the knowledge tree Then they chopped it down to make white picket fences… They made it past the enemy lines Just...
Dec 2, 20192 min read
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Advent Day 1: Caves
Let's hear the stars do their talking ….This town closes down The same time everyday Put out the smoke in your mind Let's put all these...
Dec 1, 20192 min read
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An Alternative Advent
This advent, I’m attempting (with a strong emphasis on the word, ‘attempt’!) to share a reflection here every day in the lead-up to...
Dec 1, 20191 min read
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Learning from Louis Theroux and Dorothy Gale: How to be a culture mediator
To me, it's almost a privilege to be welcomed into these communities and to shine a light on them. Louis Theroux Toto, I've a feeling...
Oct 25, 20198 min read
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12 books that might change the way you think...
To celebrate 1 year of my blog and my 12th post (yayyyyy), I thought it would be fun to reflect on 12 books that I've read this year,...
Aug 31, 20197 min read
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Responses to Hatred in the ‘BlackKKlansman’ and ‘Years and Years’: Who’s to blame?
“I guess they're trying to move away from their history of selling hate... no one wants to be called a bigot anymore…” Sergeant Trapp,...
Aug 6, 20197 min read
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‘The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle’ and the philosophy of the Escape Room
Tomorrow can be whatever I want it to be, which means for the first time in decades, I can look forward to it. Instead of being something...
Jun 18, 20196 min read
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Avengers: Endgame - “We’re going to plunder the pits of hell”
Today, apocalypse sells like mad. Not just the threat of it, but its reality. And especially its aftermath. How to Survive the...
May 8, 20197 min read
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Billie Eilish’s debut album, ‘When we fall asleep, where do we go?’: philosophical or sadistic?
The album is basically what happens when you fall asleep…For me, in every song in the album there's sleep paralysis. There's night...
May 1, 20194 min read
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Captain Marvel: Cats, feminism, fake news and the universe
The cat? This isn’t what you’re afraid of, is it? Nick Fury, Captain Marvel *SPOILER ALERT!* I have to admit that I’m not really a cat...
Apr 7, 20194 min read
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ABC Murders: Hope and hot beverages
If you could order a crime as one orders a dinner, what would you choose?...It must be murder – red-blooded murder – with trimmings of...
Mar 6, 20195 min read
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Ariana Grande’s 'God Is a Woman’ – The pros and cons of unsubtle ‘feminism’
You love it how I move you You love it how I touch you My one, when all is said and done You'll believe God is a woman. ‘God Is a Woman’...
Dec 29, 20185 min read
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Moana and Disney Spirituality
Gramma Tala: That voice inside is who you are *SPOILER ALERT* Moana is an interesting mix of Disney at its best… (Award-winning song,...
Nov 24, 20185 min read
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