by thosecreativetypes | Dec 9, 2019 | depression, funerals, hope, Interfaith, motherhood, Random insights, Taoism
If we become addicted to the external, our interiority will haunt us. We will become hungry with a hunger no image, person, or deed can still. – John O’Donohue[1] Something is missing I am married to a good man. I have a beautiful eight-year old...
by thosecreativetypes | Mar 10, 2018 | funerals, Interfaith
I conducted my first funeral this week. Conducted? Officiated? Celebrated? None of those verbs quite fit what it felt like, which was more in the realm of Journeyed, or Travelled With. It was almost the end of the working day when the phone rang. I contemplated not...
by thosecreativetypes | Mar 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
I have just been accepted by The New Seminary into the ministerial program. I’ll tell you about it. I have been looking for a way to pray in community for years. I guess you can take a girl out of Catholicism, but you can’t take the Catholicism out of the...
by thosecreativetypes | Mar 13, 2017 | disability
Today is the anniversary of my sister Allison’s birthday. In honour of Ally I would like to share the children’s story which my talented niece and I are working on. We want to help kids understand that disabled kids are just like them: heroes in their own...
by thosecreativetypes | Aug 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
Today I bundle under my new doonah cover, bought for its primary colours in a nod to the need for cheering up. My husband has taken our daughter to the playground, which she was unimpressed about, sensing perhaps that mummy’s retreat to bed reflected more than a...
by thosecreativetypes | Aug 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
The pain has hit. Today was the first day I did not think to myself, ‘I can’t believe she is gone.’ Now that the buffer of shock has dissipated, the pain can be felt, as if the body was waiting for the mind to be ready to handle it. Just. Grief feels...
by thosecreativetypes | Aug 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
Today I woke up sick with a cold. It is as if my body, upon hearing me think about starting back to work today, had other, more realistic ideas. I am watching comfort DVDs and eating the chocolate which came courtesy of Julie Lovell. It feels surreal, using the old...
by thosecreativetypes | Jul 31, 2015 | Uncategorized
It is at times of death that religion has its greatest potency. It had been a long time since I had been to mass. As I listened to the liturgy during my sister’s farewell, I could hear the rhythms of the service in a way I had not as a regular attendee. I heard...
by thosecreativetypes | Jul 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
Eulogy, 28-7-2015 Although I write words for a living, I don’t have the words to describe how I feel about my sister. I’ll try my best. I loved her and she was a part of me, and she always will be. Ally was there from my very first days, and she decided to be the best...
by thosecreativetypes | Nov 3, 2014 | Random insights, Uncategorized
The first time I tried, and failed, to remove myself from God, I was 10 years old. I lay on the carpet, playing with the dust motes in a shaft of light which came in through a sneaky gap I had made between the heavy, dark pink drapes my mother kept closed all year...
