Tag: conversation

  • Life’s biggest questions for little minds

    Words: 361 Time to read: 2 minutes The big questions are important and perhaps never more so than to young hearts and minds. Impressionable and open to tender and loving care, our children are a gift from God and we should not be afraid to engage in the big questions. Sometimes, the questions seem to be… Read more

  • Ready to receive

    Words: 373 Time to read: 2 minutes I remember hearing that I’d be the same person in 10 years except for the books I’d read and the people I’d met. I can’t say that I am an interesting person but I suppose I’ve met some interesting people (some more than others). I can’t say that I’ve… Read more

  • Here’s the thing about social media…

    It’s easy to allow the busy work to take up our time. It’s fun. It’s useful insomuch as it proffers a sense of doing and if you’re really desperate, a sense of being. It’s busy work because it takes work—mental, emotional, and certainly physical—to maintain the mirage of influence and interaction. But it undermines both… Read more

  • Yes I know I wrote this digitally…

    Other than the resentful, vapid feed on Facebook, X (or Twitter, or ‘formerly known as Twitter’ [just what are we calling it these days?!]), or wherever you consume your content, what have you read that has nourished and challenged you? Social is a wonderful megaphone that amplifies our current beliefs–does anyone really follow people they… Read more

  • Leave the soundbites

    For long I too was stuck in the paralysis of fear. Not knowing how one, or some, would respond to writing. But hey, who cares? Unfortunately in today’s world, we’ve relegated our opinions and thoughts to short (or not-so-short) tweets, posts, videos, and Tik-Toks. This is immensely damaging for a plethora of reasons. Perhaps the… Read more

  • Choosing to remember

    Our news cycle is so short these days. With the extensive 24/7 analysis, commentary, opinionating, and critiquing, it’s easy to get sucked into the constant, inundating flow of information. The flow inevitably leads to transience – forgetting things over a period of time. These days that can be as fast as 24 hours. Or less.… Read more