Tag: Family
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Misericordias Domini (2nd Sunday After Easter) ~ 14th April 2024
The following sermon was not an easy one for me to write, and I’m still not sure how much I like it or how happy I am with it. But I got a fair bit of positive feedback from women from both congregations where I preached this past Sunday. One thing in particular stuck with…
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A Brief Update
I’ve been rather quiet on here, and not because I don’t enjoy writing this blog or because I have nothing to say. In fact, I have started several blog posts these past weeks (and months to be honest), that I haven’t been able to finish yet. Some of them require some more research so that…
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Early Childhood Memories
Once again, I am listening to Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery. In Chapter 39, Anne, Diana and Mrs Allen talk about childhood memories. In particular, the earliest memory they have of their mothers. Well, Anne only listens and reflects, but that scene made me think about my own earliest childhood memories. All…
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Gatekeeping And Judgement or When You Start Feeling Guilty For the Books You Love To Read
Sometimes I really don’t understand people. Actually, there are a lot of things I could write about because I don’t understand people. Like capitalism. But that’s not what I want to talk about today. Instead I want to talk about gatekeeping and judgement around literature. One form of judgement with regard to books I have…
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What if … or Caring For Your Inner Child
While scrolling through Twitter I came across a tweet by @mightbeautistic with some hard, but important questions. Questions regarding inner child work. Questions I have thought about in one way or another multiple times. Questions my therapist has asked me, albeit slightly differently worded, in more than one session. So I decided to try and…
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“What’s in a Name?”
“That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” (From William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. As someone who as been highly interested in linguistics and etymology for a long time, I find this quote intriguing and thought-provoking. Do names matter? Or do they not? I’m not entirely sure how to…
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The Words We Us or Family Isn’t Always Easy
I just got off the phone with my brother. He had called to ask me a quick question and we ended up talking for a bit over 20 minutes. It was really nice and I enjoyed that bonding moment with him a lot. Even though part of the conversation wasn’t a happy one and I…
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Childhood Development & the German School System – Or Why My Struggles May Have Gone Unnoticed
I have always spent a lot of time in my own head. Reflecting on a lot of things. Analysing pretty much everything in my life. Or trying to figure things out. So it probably doesn’t surprise anyone that I have spent a lot of time thinking about my experience in school and of my childhood…
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Birthdays
Today, 35 years ago, I entered this world. A little less smoothly than my parents probably hoped for. But in the end all went well after all. 35 birthdays. Some I remember very clearly. Some blurr together and I am not exactly sure what happened in which year. And some I don’t remember at all.…
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Feeling Seen
I think I always carved being seen. Yet I also did my best to be invisible. Especially in school and at uni. After all, if you are invisible, you are less of a target. Few people mock you for being different, for being who you are if they don’t even notice you in the first…