Gathering Picnic: Growing Together

We don’t like being inconvenienced. You decide to go to a café, you get in the car, you drive over there, and then you walk up to it, and the sign on the door says ‘closed’. To make matters worse, on Google it said they were ‘open’. Even in a small way like that, it’s…

What’s the point? That’s the question I asked myself while I was vacuuming the lounge room just as a horde of people arrived to trample dirt into the carpet. What’s the point of carefully wrapping up Christmas presents, with fine detail and ribbon, just for them to get ripped to pieces? We all ask ‘what…

I had the privilege of being in the room when all three of my children were born. While scans are nice, pictures on the screen are great, It’s a particularly special moment when you get to see your child for the first time, in the flesh. Even if they’re covered in sticky goop, and with…

It’s the AFL Grand Final next weekend. Around my suburb I’ve noticed the occasional Western Bulldogs flag proudly displayed in the windows. The followers of the Melbourne Demons have come out of nowhere and are talking about their team. It’s one of those cultural moments where you see people show high levels of devotion to…

What’s your greatest achievement this year? It might be that you got that certificate at school. It might be that you’ve broken through, resolved a hard problem at work. Great achievements are worth celebrating. The Olympics recently finished, and there we saw athletes at the top of their game. They did amazing things, breaking records…