Ok, so not really. I know no-one has been expecting an update but I do love a Lord of the Rings reference. Aaaanyway, back to the long-deceased artform of blogging! You might be here because you heard me on the I Was Teenage Fundamentalist Podcast (air date Friday Sept 2, 2022) – in which case, …
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A Letter to My Daughters
My Dear Girl, One day you will be grown. Right now you are small, and crazy-beautiful. All too soon you will become a teenager, then a woman. (You will still be crazy-beautiful). You will grow breasts, you will lose your button nose, you will get pimples and then grow out of them, you will probably …
Because of Rachel
We get on with it. I have procrastinated long enough trying to find the right words, when really what I need to do most to honor Rachel’s life and influence is to simply share my heart. Rachel was a force to be reckoned with, and in so many ways she still is. Her words survive …
Untitled Ramblings
I’ve been thinking quite a bit over the last nine months since I last dropped some words in this space. Things come up that I want to say, then I can’t work out how to say them. I’m stung again by the nagging lie of perfectionism . The kind of thinking I’ve been doing has …
Of Heretics and Pharisees
Pharisee. Heretic. Wolf in sheep’s clothing. Legalist. Backslider. Fundamentalist. Jezabel. I’ve named and been named. I’ve called out, been spat out. I’ve spurned others, I’ve been branded. What are these labels, and why do we use them? We self-identify, and we deride others with their usage. We pigeon-hole others into …
Broken, Happy People [on Hell & Holy Messes]
It’s a funny thing, not believing in Hell, or an afterlife at all, sometimes. It’s not something I think we can know for sure, this side of death, so I’m in between at the moment. In the midst of The Sorting. Plus, It’s not really something to bring up in polite conversation. Allude to a …
Be Kind, Use Nice Words, Be Gentle
In these times when everybody seems to be shouting at somebody, and nobody is actually listening to anybody but themselves, perhaps it’s time for us all to remember to Be Kind, Use Nice Words, Be Gentle. Each other is all we’ve got, regardless of race, religion, gender, politics or sexuality. We need to spend more …
Hello? It’s Me.
I’ve been wondering if after all these years you’d like to meet… Jokes. I’ll meet you, Adele, but only if you introduce me to whoever does your brows. So anyway, I haven’t written publicly for a really long time. (My last post was way back in August – you can read it here. It’s still …
midnight
Midnight folds into a new day that looks and feels just like the old one; but the slow arc of the moon creates a silver path to follow © B Morel, 2014 A New Year’s beacon of hope for all those who have traversed a hard year… May you find joyful moments in the year …
guano
Nothing like a good guano cleaning session to put things in perspective. Our chooks leave quite a mess in the back yard and around the back door. I ignored it for so long that I stopped noticing it. But today I looked at the shit and said “it’s time”. I scooped, swept, sprayed and scrubbed …
