Category: Social Comment

• Twelfth Night, or What You Will…

  So the frivolities are over, the obligations fulfilled, the promises made.  The bride and bridegroom of the old year have been waved away, leaving  the land to rest and await Spring’s wakening.  The coloured lights, the glitter’s memory, the gleam of hope must warm us for a while as we prepare against Nature’s frozen sleep.…

  frederick anderson

  January 5, 2016

  Social Comment, Uncategorized

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• Mother’s Day – A Matter of Family Values

  In my country, we have Mothering Sunday.   That’s today. It’s the fourth Sunday in Lent, if anyone is interested in the jigsaw puzzle of the Christian calendar, and it remembers St. John of the Ladder, or St. John Climacus (Climacus – climb – ladder; gettit?  Don’t you just love Latin?).  It was once called Laetare…

  frederick anderson

  March 15, 2015

  Social Comment

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