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Fear and Trembling

They say falling in love makes poets out of everyone. I suspect its people who've never been locked down by a virus who say that. Lying in bed, scared of an

The Cost of Living

To the sea, with our undisclosed hurt Those who’ve read the South African born Deborah Levy's memoir, Things I Don't Want to Know will remember it hailed as

Humour In The Era Of Pandemics

About a third of the way into the narrative Daniel Defoe’s book, A Journal of the Plague Year, published in 1722, its narrator H. F., a saddler in London of 1665 says:

The Lenten Diary: Day Two

The Twins of Life: Love & Pain A friend (Dr Shell) reminded me yesterday that Ash Wednesday readings include these kernel of treasures into God's infinite mercy. Joel 2:13 : Rend

The Lenten Diary

DAY 1: ASH WEDNSDAY Ash Wednesday. Another start to the eternal year of the Church's cycle. For mortals, time and years flow by, creases and bitterness spread over, the bile rises