“Probably people know the room is going to be discussing something of division. Presumably people have a predictable set of outcomes in their mind. “I bet you this group or this person will say the following thing.” And they might even have their responses primed and prepared for the thing that they’re predicting. I’m always interested in how we find the courage in the room for something unexpected and surprising to be said.” Pádraig Ó Tuama
Hard to believe the launch of Tender was just over a week ago. A joy to have poet and peace maker Pádraig Ó Tuama in the room with his beautiful lilting voice and delicious humour. Thanks to the 120 people who came and listened with lovely presentness, the atmosphere was memorable. People also purchased with …
When you’ve listened to a story with anticipation, there’s a kind of deflation if you’re told what to think about it.
I wrote this piece after hearing Leigh Sales interviewed at Adelaide Writers Week last month. I loved her book, ‘Any Ordinary Day’ and was captured again by the way she spoke it. Most of all the surprising impact a Jesuit priest called Steve Sinn had on her understanding of the task of ‘accompanying’. Sales had …
I’m so delighted to know this wonderful human, pictured here at a house concert early this year. You can listen Pádraig here on the On Being podcast. In a few weeks he will be in Melbourne again, at Sacred Edge in Queenscliff May 3-5, doing storytelling seminar and workshop at the Centre for Theology and …
Delighted to have this story out in the world – a new piece in Eureka Street today hathttp://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/the-man-in-the-pork-pie-hat
This piece of mine was published last week in the Sydney Morning Herald and the Sunday Age. In her novel Unsheltered, Barbara Kingsolver depicts a young science teacher in the 1870’s. Thatcher Greenwood is ensnared in controversy about Darwin’s new theory of evolution. He is set up to fail as he tries to elaborate the …
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Looking forward to telling stories with the magnificent Fi Bottcher for the beginning of this retreat, and then to the spacious time the rest of the day will offer. Due to issues with the registration site and process, the first retreat that was set for March 23 will now run on Nov 23. But wait, …
