Category: Love
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That Love of Loves
I still don’t know how that motorcyclist didn’t hit her. And me too I suppose. Every so often I stop and wonder why. Considering what happened to her later. I just shake my head and muse upon the two memories I have of her. We were standing at a bus stop. Near the Old Treasury Building in […]
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Let Love
Love when your outstretched hands wake you. Love till your eyelids gently call you to sleep. Let love master you and you be in thrall to love. For love will free you what would thwart love. Love calls from the sunset through the twilight Love dwells in the dark and calls to the light Love sinks […]
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After That Everything Was Different
I was handed a small child in a bundle. I briefly held you. Then I returned you to the midwives. They filled a small bath with water, tested it with wrist or elbow I don’t recall exactly. They then started to wash you. You cried just a little and then you relaxed. They laved you gently, picked you […]
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The Child that changed Everything
I was handed a small child in a bundle. I briefly held you. Then I returned you to the midwives. They filled a small bath with water, tested it with wrist or elbow I don’t recall exactly. They then started to wash you. You cried just a little and then you relaxed. They laved you gently, picked you […]
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The Fifth Love
Of a morning, I’m woken up by the song Higher Love by Steve Winwood. And not every morning, I ask myself, “What is this song really about?””Where is this higher love he keeps thinking of anyway?” Perhaps this higher love might be one of C. S. Lewis‘s The Four Loves: Storge: Love experienced by and for family members, […]
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The Reverse Golden Rule
Somewhere in Australia, someone is gloating over images of a burning mosque. Before that he or she was fuming over the latest executions from the Middle East. They’re probably thinking this is how much they hate us and this is how we should hate them back. Somewhere in Australia, someone is fuming over images of […]
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From a Wedding, Hope
I’ve just returned from an overseas wedding in Sri Lanka. It was nothing short of extraordinary. The venue was beautiful. A seaside hotel (Chayya Tranz Hikkaduwa) with the couple marrying on the beach at sunset. The ceremony was heartfelt. Two people I know well were taking the greatest step in their lives with open eyes […]
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Love, Science Fiction and Understanding
I lived in a small town (Kiama, New South Wales, Australia) which had, for me, too small a library. It consisted of three sections: children adult non-fiction and adult fiction. As a child I worked my way through the children’s book section. I enjoyed children’s books (and still do) especially the child version of the […]
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The Parent Trap (Who Are The Best Parents?)
It was a great party. I’m mingling with strangers asking them how they knew the guest of honour. It was easy. All I had to do was be quiet and let them talk. I was having a very enjoyable time until… The conversation turned to parenting. Initially it was easy to listen. I’m a parent […]
Andrew James Whalan 