The hellscape of 2019
After the drought and the fires we knew that this would be a year of healing. When the rain fell on Christmas Day, we all felt a glimmer of hope. Never before have I been so glad to slam the …
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Learning to live with Change
It’s been a long, long time since I have written here. I couldn’t bear to replace Phee’s gorgeous pic. It meant admitting that he was gone. It meant moving on. And how do you do that? How do you accept …
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Paw prints on my Heart
For five weeks I have been in denial, braving the world and keeping going by just putting one foot in front of the other. We all have. All avoiding the elephant in the room, too locked in our own pain …
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Bringing down the House . . . of Rome
If Christ turned the moneylenders out of the temple in rage that they would pollute ‘his Father’s House’ with their worship of money and conducting of commerce in the holiest of places, what would he say and do about a …
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Only humans are hypocrites
ANIMAL EQUALITY: Why are some more equal than others? They are very smart, sentient, soul-filled beings like us. They are peaceful, relaxed, generally happy. Pigs, dogs, horses, cows, goats, sheep alike. They are loving, affectionate, communicative, funny. In fact, most …
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PETA’s shock and awe anti-wool campaign is offensive to the public and farmers
The latest PETA campaign featuring a fake freshly shorn sheep covered in blood is wrong. And that’s coming from a former vegan. I was a vegan for more than 20 years. I used to think that all human interference …
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