1. Temporarily Occupied…

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    February 12, 2014 by lucieromarin

    …with an evening job! I’m pretending to be one of those poor women in Victorian novels who work all day …
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  2. What to Eat When You’re Not Expecting Anything

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    February 9, 2014 by lucieromarin

    Today, during the homily, we were cautioned against reading time-wasting blogs. Fortunately, we were not cautioned against writing them, so …
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  3. Physical Weariness versus Spiritual Weariness

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    February 5, 2014 by lucieromarin

    I know, I know – as I’ve experienced neither prolonged hospitalisation nor the dark night of the soul, I’m probably …
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  4. Also…

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    February 1, 2014 by lucieromarin

    …a great many people have been raised with the story that Our Lady of the Rosary told Lucia dos Santos …
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  5. “I do not Promise You Happiness in this Life…”

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    January 29, 2014 by lucieromarin

    In an apparition to St Bernadette Soubirous, Our Lady said, “I do not promise you happiness in this life, but …
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  6. Australian Things to Like

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    January 26, 2014 by lucieromarin

    Today is Australia Day – a holiday to which I have never in my life paid any attention, other than …
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  7. Re-reading…

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    January 22, 2014 by lucieromarin

    Three trustworthy men told me to read some Patrick O’Brian so I began this year with ‘Mauritius Command,’ and am …
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  8. Aristotle versus the Rift (Potency and Act, Part 2)

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    January 17, 2014 by lucieromarin

    So – to continue with the journey/destination analogy in the previous post – Aristotle saw that all beings, at any …
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  9. A Rift Between Worlds (Potency and Act, Part 1)

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    January 15, 2014 by lucieromarin

    So much television sci-fi is about the dangers attendant upon a Tear in the Fabric of Reality, or a Tear …
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  10. Thomism versus Burnout

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    January 13, 2014 by lucieromarin

    In the late 1990s, Jacques Derrida came to Sydney and said, “The visibility of visibility is not visible,” whereupon his …
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