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Facebook – the great leveller

Monsignor — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:13:29 +0000

You are probably nothing at all like me, and if that is true then Facebook for you is just good fun (as long as you’re not too concerned about internet privacy that is).

Me? It is the challenge that melds the “versions of me” into one. I have avoided being friends with some people [...]

Age, mortality and their effect on your address…

Monsignor — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:30:16 +0000

For those of us that are no longer thirty-somethings and who have done the family-thing life may now be seeming…different. On the one hand I am comfortable in my own skin and on the other…well, it finds me out in foreign suburbs at hours when only magpies are awake.

I had long wondered what my [...]

What!? me?

Monsignor — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:19:50 +0000

With sniper-like skill we target the faults of others, as a hawk spies a tiny mouse from a lofty height; all the while missing the wood amidst the forest of our own error.

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Are you living large?

Monsignor — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:30:24 +0000

“The world of the generous gets larger and larger; the world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller.” (Prov 11:24 MSG) Emphasis added What is generosity? Well, according to Merriam Webster it is: Characterized by a noble or forbearing spirit : magnanimous, kindly heart; liberal in giving : openhanded marked by abundance or ample proportions. : copious generous. (2009). In Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved June [...]

Duplicity, thy name is (insert your name here)

Monsignor — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:34:12 +0000

Is there a private you, a you revealed when you are with your partner, a workplace you, a parental you (if you have kids), a you when you are with close friends, a you for when you are with acquaintances? Does this ever lead to feeling like the “real” you should speak up? Would you [...]

Discipline

Monsignor — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:52:25 +0000

I think it’s worthwhile clarifying something about discipline as it is a word that, in my experience, is so often associated with punishment.

To discipline someone actually means to train them. I suppose the confusion about punishment might come from childhood days of chastisement, when a parent’s efforts at positive forms of reinforcing good behaviour, on their [...]

Indifference – who cares?

Monsignor — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:05:31 +0000

It occurred to me recently that perhaps one of the most damaging opponents of progression in my life is indifference. The are a variety of contexts in which this word can be used; I refer to it in its apathetic form.

Other folks have also noticed the insidious nature of indifference. Prominent social and political commentator [...]