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If I had any romantic notions about writing a book then Annie Dillard has most definitely killed them off.
She writes, ‘I do not so much write a book as sit up with it as with a dying friend. During visiting hours, I enter its room with dread and sympathy for its many disorders. […]
Ever wanted to be someone else?
Perhaps we would really like to take different aspects from the lives of different people: one person’s looks, another’s talents, someone else’s prospects.
I guess we can all be tempted to do this kind of thing and the more we do it the more likely we are to be prevented from […]
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Have you ever been coached by someone?
Have you ever been a coach to someone?
I’d love to hear your stories, wherever they are from – sport, work, life, ministry.
What were you able to do as a result of being coached that you were not able to contemplate or envisage before?
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Usually when I get in the shower at the beginning of the day the aim is to wake up. I don’t get too many moments when ideas come to me at 6am but this morning was the exception.
I mentioned last week that Christine and I have a decision to make. We’ve been taking […]
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One of the values of the Mosaic community in Los Angeles is ‘Creativity is the natural result of spirituality’.
How many just don’t know they are meant to be creative beings?
Eugene Peterson suggests, In the presence of the beautiful we intuitively respond in delight, wanting to be involved, getting near, entering in – tapping our feet, […]
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Thank you to those who have told me about their failures and how they react to them.ÂÂ
(Larry made this comment on the small number of replies: ‘Well, I guess the attempt to get people to talk about failure was itself a failure. Not all that surprising, I guess, in a world where everyone preserves everything.’ […]
I’ve just finished reading Annie Dillard’s book in which she reflects on a year of pilgrimage at Tinker Creek.
She would say that she had explored the gaps of the world that is wider in all directions: ‘more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright’. Dillard had been reflecting on the way Ezekiel reveals […]
