christmas

Advent-ish/Happy New Year

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything here: words and the space to write them have been scarce. I guess I’ve also lost a bit of confidence in my ability to write something that might engage. I’d meant to write something for a friend’s blog: http://www.thisfragiletent.com gathered artists and creatives to do a seriesContinue reading “Advent-ish/Happy New Year”

This picture is one of the pages of scrawl that I made for Christmas Day: nothing in it made it into the final edit. It took a long time to put what I did together, but the space to think, write, pray and wrestle with my demons was worth it: to me at least. Overall,Continue reading “Christmas”

Innocents

There’s a scene in one of my favourite Christmas films, ‘Nativity’ where one of the characters is looking to put on a Nativity play that will be better than anything ever seen before. At one point he says:- ‘Herod? No one’s ever done him before’ Accordingly, be bases it on the ‘massacre of the innocents’*Continue reading “Innocents”