Life is unfair. There are people in this world that are blessed with everything and people who are damaged by anything. Yesterday I went to a plenary session on individuating medicines in mental health where the point was made that there are divergences in genes that change your resilence to trauma, that influence your response … Continue reading Prediction or predestination? (Conference day 3.0)

I think this passage confronts me today. For I am looking at a morning that has gone to shreds, with limited sleep, and a session (which starts at 6 PM) to chair this evening. And speak at. So I tossed, turned and in the end gave up and read. From 3 AM local time. Clutter … Continue reading Clutter (conference 2.7)

This is going to be a little bit like a work conversation, or one that I would like to have: it's driven by the scripture and an anecdote. I was sitting in the opening ceremony of the conference and a colleague was describing a supervisee as malevolent: not just incompetent but actively evil and actively … Continue reading Malevolence and madness (conference day 1.5)

The photo is me after five hours sleep. I got into Vienna at 11 PM having woken in Hong Kong at 5 AM (there is a seven hour time difference) and then was wide awake again at 5 am.... Anyone who says travel for meetings does not knock you around has not done the trips … Continue reading Feminism paganity is ancient. (Travel Day three)

Travel... I am up early as I need to be on a shuttle, to the airport, then Hong Kong to London to Vienna. I will sleep in 30 hours. Pray for my temper, folks. One of the things I see in Hong Kong and I quite like is that the place is made friendly for … Continue reading Meek and mild hate speech. (Travel day 2)

I'm travelling & there were netbooks on sale: the Samsung ATIV 9 had good specs and I've installed linux on almost everything. Well, I have just given up in defeat and am taking a big old clunky laptop. The most modern distros -- ubuntu, opensuse and fedora all ended up after installing correctly with an … Continue reading I hate UEFI

This is day Zero of a trip, and I am sitting in my work office doing this at lunchtime: I was up most of the night and my next sleep will be on a plane: the next bed is 48 h away. I have been worried about leaving my grown sons at home, despite the … Continue reading Travel Day Zero

There was a link yesterday back to some comments about lesbians divorcing more than gay men now that we have gay marriage and in a related article I realized that I had written pretty much the same thesis as the Artisan Toad had just put up. I wrote this comment back in May Prediction — … Continue reading Stating the truth is a counterevolutionary & prophetic act

Time for some deep theology. The bodies we have come first. The physical comes first, and the body matters. What we do with our bodies can be glorious, as Alison Balsom is playing Handel in the clip. But we are made from that of this earth, and in this sate we cannot be part of … Continue reading Broken glory.