blogging – the lily and rose

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The problem with “Love your neighbour as you love yourself”

Seems like a no-brainer, right? How could I have a problem with this? Of course we want to love others and be loving people, who are unselfish and do not only care about ourselves. However, there is a big glaring hole that is being sidestepped in this very well known foundational /religious teaching. Now, before …

Arachnophobia

While washing windows earlier this morning, a startling thought came to me. Spiders are the quintessential starving artists of the insect (arachnid) world. Instead of only being grossed out by the stack of fly carcuses and annoyed by their sticky webbing, I found myself also feeling inspired and strangely sympathetic to the little creepy crawlies. …