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Temporarily Occupied…
Leave a commentFebruary 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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What to Eat When You’re Not Expecting Anything
Leave a commentFebruary 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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Physical Weariness versus Spiritual Weariness
Leave a commentFebruary 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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Also…
1February 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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“I do not Promise You Happiness in this Life…”
2January 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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Australian Things to Like
1January 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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Re-reading…
Leave a commentJanuary 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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Aristotle versus the Rift (Potency and Act, Part 2)
1January 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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A Rift Between Worlds (Potency and Act, Part 1)
Leave a commentJanuary 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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Thomism versus Burnout
Leave a commentJanuary 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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