Andermas

The old (Church) year was seen off with Gule, of course, but it is appropriate to record here the manner in which Advent Sunday was marked.   My colleague T. arranged for a service of Choral Evensong in the Kamuzu Academy chapel. Such rites are seldom performed in a chapel inspired by Presbyterianism and inclined…

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On Pain

Today for St. Andrew and I emerge from most of six weeks of pain, Deo gratias.   The pain is rheumatism, in the foot, which has made walking to feel as if it were on raw bone. A step requires the unwelcome calculation of necessity and desire against pain. The liver grows accustomed (or not)…

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