Tag Archives: healing
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A Spirituality of Burnout
Leave a commentMay 10, 2014 by lucieromarin
Is there a spirituality of burnout? After much wondering, I realised that part of the reason I couldn’t answer the …
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Beauty – a Postscript
Leave a commentMay 1, 2014 by lucieromarin
I forgot to include two important points in the previous post (true to form!): It is true that a small …
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Don’t Try to Look Young!
2April 29, 2014 by lucieromarin
It is true that women in their thirties or forties do not look like women in their twenties or teens. …
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“We Have to Remain Faithful”
8March 15, 2014 by lucieromarin
You’ll hear this from the pulpit, sometimes: “When scandal occurs or others fall, we have to remain faithful,” or, “Even …
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After the Occupation
Leave a commentMarch 6, 2014 by lucieromarin
It’s all very well for me to write, “Let him recede,” as a means of recovering from a broken friendship …
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Now I’m Just Somebody that He Used to Know
2March 2, 2014 by lucieromarin
This weekend, while trudging through the rain with a bag of groceries on my back, I suddenly remembered lines from …
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Septuagesima…
Leave a commentFebruary 17, 2014 by lucieromarin
I’ve always liked Septuagesima Sunday, because ‘Septuagesima’ is long and sounds impressive, and, when I encountered it in a novel …
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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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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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“They Shall Say to the Mountains, ‘Cover Us.'” (For When You Know What’s Coming, and It’s Bad.)
3December 6, 2013 by lucieromarin
I’m no fan of sudden disasters or unexpected evils, and quite understand why we wish for a little foreknowledge sometimes; …
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Roadkill Rhapsody 