4am, we walk out of the club. Frustrated you are and impatient I am. Kindness can’t be found here. You say leave a club at 4am and they’ll think you desperate. The men you mean. Frustrated you are. Angry I am. We get home, raised voices and misunderstandings are exchanged. You say, you don’t want… Continue reading woman: wells at high noon
Ah! happy they whose hearts can break and peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan and cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in? - Oscar Wilde - The Ballad of Reading Gaol when you went to the cross did you… Continue reading you are not without faith
I am part of history; I am allowed to and will make mistakes. - Angela Merkel - The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel At 30 something, you will leave your house bare faced. You will again have chosen to opt out of wearing make up. As you walk to the station, you will… Continue reading we have come too far by faith for this
Joshua was like one of those old knights who slept in their armor. He was always fighting. His sword must have been well hacked, and often must his armor have been blood-red. He had before him a lifelong enterprise. Such is the life of the Christian, a warfare from cud to end. As soon as… Continue reading a happy new year
Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. - James A. Baldwin I have re-written this post a lot of times during the existence of this blog. You know the deal. You get into a relationship… Continue reading what i have learnt from love
Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day. - E.B. White, Letter to Mr. Nadeau I have been recently wondering, if this year is much like last year, what’s my coping plan? Another January has ended and we continue the march on into 2021.… Continue reading les miserables – on hope.
We didn't come this far to only come this far. This week I celebrated a great milestone in my life. I have officially been doing this lawyer thing for a year and that is no small achievement. There’s a scrawny younger me (in the pictures she’s in an oversized blazer) somewhere shocked and proud of… Continue reading fidem servavi – we have kept the faith
ode to the slut who doesn't fuck but still a slut for not letting him hit. Remember there are always two ways of looking at a condom in a wrapper, open your pussy and you won't find freedom. Close your legs and you won't find purity. - Alysia Harris, This Woman On Friday I was… Continue reading What’s in a woman (or Part II)
When I go, bury me with nothing but my own skin. I spent far too many days trying to outrun this thing called mine. - Anis Mojgani, Cradle One day i’ll publish a book. I already know the title of the book; it’s the title of this blog post. It will be a story about… Continue reading How to build a woman (or Part I)
How do I define history? It's just one fucking thing after another. - Alan Bennett, The History Boys One of my old managers used to love to run and exercise. I commented on this one day saying I would love to have her discipline. She snorted and said she had only started running again a… Continue reading this is what the ancients were commended for
after the wilderness 