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What Mary Knew
Prior to 2020 I had never, ever studied the life of Mary. She’s in the crèche I pull out every Christmas, but kind of boring (it’s the ritually unclean shepherds having their minds blown by the psychedelic light show in the sky which always interested me). I’m not Catholic so Mary has never really held any special power or interest for me, especially since she’s always up on a pedestal looking all pure and pious and the exact opposite of anything I want to be. But honestly this year set me on a bizarre journey to study the very Jewish Jesus in the Christian Bible and all the interactions he…
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A Healthy Dose of Art
Here in Hong Kong, our family has been practicing social distancing including working from home, attending school online, and saying no to almost everything fun or interesting since mid-January. As in eleven weeks of frantic tedium and anxious boredom. Several other places around the world are just now completing their first week of doing the same and believe me, I feel the weight of it all right through my screen. I’m working on writing my personal story and first-hand experience with life in lock down due to the Coronavirus. It’s been perhaps the most strangely difficult thing I’ve had to write, and it’s taking forever. Trying to strike a balance…