There’s vegetable and lentil soup simmering on the stove. Even though the days are still quite warm, I’m no longer feeling like salad for lunch. Before last year, I had never made a soup. Last winter, I made one every weekend for my lunches in the week ahead. I’m ready for that again, to follow … Continue reading Moving through Autumn
In 2022 I wrote, “for the last year I have felt relatively stuck, and while I can’t simply find a new home each time I feel this way, it does feel good to be on the move again.” Well, turns out I can just find a new home each time I feel that way, because … Continue reading The Adventure Continues…
I opened a small notebook this morning, A5 with a pretty floral cover. It had been sitting on my bookshelf since I moved in fifteen months ago, wedged amongst Christian non-fiction. Some pages fell out. I had forgotten they existed. During the height of Covid, when I wasn’t working and things felt impossible, I did … Continue reading Seeking and Finding
Even though the song Little Drummer Boy is not Biblical, it is one of my favourite Christmas songs (alongside O Holy Night). Every year it seems to speak to something that my heart knows to be true. Let me unpack… I am a poor boy too… I have no gift to bring… that’s fit to … Continue reading Christmas Reflections
In January I wrote this post and mentioned I thought I was going through a spiritual wilderness. Sometime last year (probably around October when I lost my job during a lockdown), I began to feel lost and while I was reading my Bible and praying as normal, it felt like God was not close to … Continue reading My Spiritual Wilderness
Writing about high school is tough for me, because there are so many different aspects and I’m worried I’ll either exaggerate the experience or turn everything in the rearview mirror golden. But an aspect of high school is this: I was lonely a lot. I think seventeen was alright, but something came crashing down again … Continue reading A History of Loneliness (and thoughts on vaccination)
My lovely reader, Welcome to another month, and a new season! Everything is warm and sunny and I don’t think there’s much better than opening all the windows and letting in a fresh spring breeze. Spring brings more joy to everyday tasks, I think; hanging out the laundry, washing the dishes, collecting the mail. It … Continue reading Newsletter: the weight of words
Autumn (written by Sarah Bennett) autumn always feels the same / or / I always feel the same in autumn / stepping out into the evening is a swirling of loneliness / not the hopeless kind / the matter-of-fact kind / this does not scare me anymore / it’s like returning to an old friend … Continue reading Autumn / Poem
Someone recently told me that I’m good at conclusions, or something like that. I’m good at concluding things. I wouldn’t disagree, but I think sometimes I go too far in cutting things off before their time, for the sake of moving on. Whenever I go away on holidays, the last morning is always wobbly. Knowing … Continue reading Conclusions and Closure
2021 is the year of focusing on my health. Which, when put like that, sounds kind of boring. But honestly, I’m excited. I wouldn’t say I’ve ever neglected my wellbeing, unless you consider neglect to be convincing my mum that a dentist appointment doesn’t have to be every six months. But it hasn’t been much … Continue reading My Focus of 2021
the softest words 