I have often wondered what our Creator’s intentions for Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 is? Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What do people gain from all the toil at which they toil under the sun? Ecclesiastes 1:2-3 NRSVCE A young person once argued that “vanity” was akin to a loss of…
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To Everything There is a Season
I wonder what it’s like to live your life in a family that had suddenly chosen to stay mostly at home now (in the time of Covid), when they had scarcely been home for ages. And how that would improve your quality of life and engender more opportunities for sweet-bits and savoury morsels. And to…
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Sunbird on a Dwarf Peacock: Pictorial Reflections on the Follies of Vanity
In the quiet shade of a sun-filled morning, in a year that has just past its Autumnal Equinox, the lady brown-throated Sunbird rests and preens herself beneath the leafy sprinkles of a Dwarf Peacock, while a nearby Jumbo Wax Apple tree displays its nearly ripened offerings to a variety of impatient creatures as they careen…