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Celebration

Taking vows

February 9, 2006

A vow is generally seen as a solemn undertaking to achieve something or to act in a certain way. In other words, a serious commitment. Two people getting married take a vow to “love and cherish”. Such as Gav and Jo did this past weekend at Windgrove where 80 adults and a scattering of children [...]

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What’s next?

January 30, 2006

Last week I celebrated the 10th year of my becoming an Australian citizen (Australia Day 1996). Yesterday morning, I also celebrated reaching the end of a huge undertaking to learn what I could about my new country (or, at least, the tiny portion of it called Roaring Beach). With a group of friends gathered at [...]

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Perfect “Ten”

December 2, 2005

There was a little more traffic in the water this week that made my daily surf feel more like I was up at Bondi Beach in Sydney than here. But, hey, I not complaining because it was all pretty exciting as the Australian national junior surf titles were being contested. For ten days 140 surfers, [...]

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Thanksgiving Day gratitude

November 24, 2005

A salute is an arm extended or a rigid military snap to the forehead. A pledge of allegiance is the right hand over the heart. An oath is the hand placed on a religious text . A prayer, however, whether one is kneeling, standing, sitting, prostrate or lying on one’s back in the water, is [...]

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Ritual retreat

March 30, 2005

Exhaustion overtook me late this morning. Seeking to enter into the comforting cave of sleep I abandoned the crisp, clean, cloudless blue sky and sought out the soft pillowed couch by the fire place in the sheltered darkened interiority of my house. Oh, how protected I felt as my animal body curled up and nuzzled [...]

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‘Tis the season

December 21, 2004

Happy solstice day to all those interested in celebrating this day. I guess this would include most Christians as Christmas is basically a rewrapping of the gift of the promise of “light”. Whether the sun, or your favourite image of the divine, this day and the days to come, offer all of us a chance [...]

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“Our” star

May 5, 2004

Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding morning glories, and into the windows of, even, the miserable and the crotchety — best preacher that ever was, dear star, that just happens [...]

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New Year’s resolution

January 5, 2004

Wage Peace Wage peace with your breath. Breathe in firemen and rubble, breathe out whole buildings and flocks of redwing blackbirds. Breathe in terrorists and breathe out sleeping children and freshly mown fields. Breathe in confusion and breathe out maple trees. Breathe in the fallen and breathe out lifelong friendships intact. Wage peace with your [...]

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Birthday gift

June 27, 2003

Today is my birthday. Born year of the Dog, 1946. As I rolled out of bed and ambled down to the beach for a special, early dawn surf I couldn’t help but think of the Green Rosella that, yesterday, flew into the side of the house, broke its neck and died within minutes. I have [...]

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Peace Sunday #3

April 8, 2003

Two days after the event and I want look at the long lasting significance of putting together the Peace Sunday prayer and celebration day. There is no doubt that those that came (around 50) enjoyed the day. Children and adults alike were all smiles as they basked in the palpable delight of the dancing prayer [...]

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