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an ode to used bookshops
I like a good used bookshop like I like a good pub: affordable, accessible, and diverse. Strangely enough, like pubs, there’s a sense in which a used bookshop is a microcosm of the whole community. Reading attracts all types of people, after all, and you can tell a lot about someone by their taste in…
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reflections on cpe
I recently finished my first basic unit of Clinical Psychospiritual Education. It was exactly this kind of experience that I wanted when I first applied to my MDiv program. I liked theology, religion, philosophy, and that kind of thing; but I also wanted to do something with that information, y’know? I felt like that was…
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be negative
I’ve often heard people tell me to “be positive”, and I can see the value of positivity on some level. It’s what allows us to keep going, to build a better world, to live a better life. I’m sure you know all that, though, so let’s be honest: it’s a boring take. If that’s all…
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roger that!
The funny thing about therapy is that, while you might assume that it’s about one person telling another person all of their problems, it’s actually about two people, not one. You need two people to have any kind of relationship, and that is precisely what therapy is. On the very last day of my placement…
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flowers still bloom
Last week I shared a poem. (For those who didn’t see it, I’ll share it below.) In it, the poet made a remark about how bravery came from standing upright, flower in hand, rather than leaning over a cliff to pick the flower in the first place. I interpreted this as something of a bittersweet…
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twenty-five
I don’t do this often, if I do it at all. I wanted to share a poem that stuck out to me: I remember my grandfather peering over a cliff and leaning down to grab a flower growing at the edge of it. At the time I feared for him— what bravery to look down…
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vegans can be annoying… but they do have a point!
How do you know if someone’s a vegan? Answer: don’t worry, they’ll tell you! Joking aside, I do feel that vegans and even vegetarians get more flack than they should in contemporary society. At least in the West. Unlike other parts of the world, such as India, we don’t exactly have a long tradition of…
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on humour
I love a laugh. It’s probably my favourite thing in the world—better than sex, even! And so I’ve often wondered, particularly as I’ve spent more and more money on stand-up tickets, what’s so good about it? It definitely feels good to laugh, but I think it goes even deeper than that. For a start, I…
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dead or alive?
As a kid, I had this little wood carving of a man crouched over in a cross-legged position, appearing to cry into his hands. I was told it was called the weeping Buddha. I don’t know what happened to that carving, but I came across another as I was browsing a store some two years…
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