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Category: Creative Arts

Paddy’s Mirror Image Prayer
Prayer: the cry of the human heart

Paddy’s Mirror Image Prayer

Posted on 9 June 202430 March 2025 by Sande Ramage

If we are made in God’s imageand I’m reliably informed that we arethen Paddy’s mirror of the divineis worth exploring more. No booming voice from heaven heardinstead, his warm and gentle tone‘hello darling’, the moment you appearloving you just as…

Oppenheimer and the importance of owls
Movies

Oppenheimer and the importance of owls

Posted on 13 August 202313 August 2023 by Sande Ramage

Right from the start I was totally engrossed in Oppenheimer and didn’t falter across the whole three hours. Perhaps because it was obvious early on that the protagonists considered themselves to be the ‘good guys’ in the world. And that…

then as now
Poetry

then as now

Posted on 10 December 202211 December 2022 by Sande Ramage

some people may be surprisedto find that I spend a lot of liferummaging around in the pastnot because I long for some nirvanathat was better than now – not at allbut because it seems so like now my bible fascinates…

I didn’t catch your name
Mortality

I didn’t catch your name

Posted on 7 November 20227 November 2022 by Sande Ramage

I didn’t catch your namesaid my friend the nurseto the doctor, who hadn’toffered a name or smile feverish, full of infectionnot making sense of muchstill upright, I felt a bother, assumingI wasn’t sick enough to be there hospitals, said Thomas…

On dying alone
Death and Dying

On dying alone

Posted on 31 October 20227 November 2022 by Sande Ramage

sick, flat on my backstaring at the ceilingReality wanted a saywondering, raw as alwaysif this was how I would dieno cat, dog, human or fish beside me why should that be a problem? I askednot to me dear, she saidpositively…

A collect came calling
Jungian themes

A collect came calling

Posted on 16 October 202216 October 2022 by Sande Ramage

Times change. Dial A Prayer is now a thoroughbred stallion that lives near me, but in the 1960’s it was a machine. A prayer machine that people could phone to hear a daily prayer. This was where my public writing…

Collect for Te Pouhere Sunday
Festivals

Collect for Te Pouhere Sunday

Posted on 16 October 202224 October 2022 by Sande Ramage

God of patient presenceWho inhabits us without judgementInspire us to know we are enoughIn the name of loveyour eternal integrating force. In explanation, a collect (pronounced with emphasis on the first syllable rather than the last) is a traditional Anglican…

On Holly’s instructions
Jungian themes

On Holly’s instructions

Posted on 9 October 20229 October 2022 by Sande Ramage

what, I wonderedlooking out the window for inspirationwhere the roses, in need of shapingbent to the breeze what a brief passageor excerpt would look likeperhaps a quote would be betterbrief, to the point, erudite or a poem, flowinglike a river…

Nothing out there, but..
Creative Arts

Nothing out there, but..

Posted on 13 December 202013 December 2020 by Sande Ramage

What humans mean by Godde is always up for debate from an intellectual perspective. But that’s not all there is to it. Our own intuitive experience is essential in this process of meaning making. In that process, questions about the…

Soul archaeology: redoing the jigsaw puzzle
Dreams

Soul archaeology: redoing the jigsaw puzzle

Posted on 26 October 202026 October 2020 by Sande Ramage

When my mum said not to rush into things, I suspect she didn’t mean leaving 58 years between one piano lesson and another. But life slips away. One minute I’m a timid eight year old petrified of my teacher and…

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