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Our fleeting Aomori autumn
The Aerophytic Orchids in June
“Country Doctor” (1948) by W. Eugene Smith
The Aerophytic Orchids in Tropical Spring
Sunbird on a Peacock Tree
The Genesee Diary – A Reflection on the Monastic Life by Fr Henri Nouwen (1976)
My Singapore Sunbird
Sundays in July 2023
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How will we be tested in our personal end-times?
Remember Me
Life of Saint Paul before and after Damascus*
Only This I Want (by Dan Schutte)
Comfort food – Ramen
Nothing worth doing is ever in vain
Love of the Parents
Charcoal Dusk
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The Weight of Glory* – weighing heavenly rewards against earthly pleasures
Lines end ……. or they soar into eternity
May You Eat and Have Some Left Over (2)
Startle & Plumage
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Living with Viruses
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Remembering the Trek to Mount Bromo, Java, Indonesia
The Waters of Abundance
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The Elusive Velvet Curtain
Big and Small – We Will Not Forget
Nature’s Way
As Dusk Beckons
The Ants
To Everything There is a Season
Counting Up The Days That Are Ours
The Sunbird and the Heliconia Rostrata
“Love is Inventive, Even onto Infinity” (St Vincent de Paul)
“The Decisive Battles of God’s Kingdom are Fought in Solitude”
The Co-existence of Good and Evil.
“The rescue of drowning men is, then a duty worth dying for, but not worth living for” CS Lewis
Getting to Zero or Getting to Hundred?
And then, there were None ..
On Easter Sunday
The Deers of Nara
Birds Perching on a Dying Bamboo Grove
The Brink of a Contagion or the Blindness of Cognition?
“Of Course I Want To!”*
Kingship, Calling, Service
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The Lion in Winter – A rethink on living with purpose
Offer the Evil Man No Resistance
The Ramen Shop at Rausu
As Spring Beckons
Like the Wind
Making a Home in Us
Burmese Days
The Singleton Nestling
The Balinese Ducks at Harvest Time
Lessons in Societies’ Failure to Make Good Decisions
Things Fall Apart; The Centre Cannot Hold…..
The Timelessness of Waiting
Serendipitous Journey to the Hidden Church in Kyushu, Japan
Sunbird on a Dwarf Peacock: Pictorial Reflections on the Follies of Vanity
Living in Community – Wisdom from Jean Vanier*
Kiyosato Cherry Salmons Return to Spawn
May You Eat and Have Some Left Over
Not Another Ordinary Sunday
St Paul’s take – “Jesus became poor for your sake, to make you rich.”
The Wonderful Surprises of Off-Season Travel: Mt Asahidake
Defining the Examined Life: The Assisi Story that spans 800 years and beyond
Nothing Goes to Waste
Divinity & Mercy
The Gardens Reflections on Holy Saturday
Noodles with home-grown sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) leaves
The prehensile dexterity of birds
The Breathtaking Journey Up Mount Bromo, Java, Indonesia
What Lies Beneath – Jesus on the Human Microbiota
Celebrating A Spring Dawn
Proof of Life – The Brown-throated Sunbird on Sunday Morning
The brown-throated Sunbird on the Red Button Ginger
The Busy Sunbird on the Heliconia psittacorum
The West Garden on a Rain-soaked January Morning
The Calling of St Matthew
The West Garden on a Rain-soaked January Evening at Dusk
A Different Drummer
Re-visiting Pulau Ubin on a rain-soaked January sky
Old Yet Con, Purvis Street, Singapore
Pondering Deeply
Lijiang, Yunnan, China
The Road Not Taken
Lord, Do You Not Care …!?
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The Roof Garden at the Agape Village
Ta Nei
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