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By Richard FayApr 15^th 2016Postsinnocence, story, reading to children, parenting, mystery, wonder, oral tradition, fathering

I confess that I dreamed of being a football commentator as an adolescent. Perhaps I love the sound of my own voice, because I became a preacher. But it was never the facts of what I was sharing – it was the drama that mattered. I think I am more drawn to storytelling.Which made for a joyful end…

Picnic at Hanging Rock

By Richard FayApr 8^th 2015Postsfalse self, hanging rock, the cross bridge, as the ruin falls, ego, innocence, humiliation, second innocence

We sped down the fire trails on our mountain bikes, helter skelter – though with my ageing knees, it was more just helter. At the end of the trail we came upon sheer cliffs that rose from a sunken valley almost a thousand metres below. Cycling around these sheer cliffs, we came upon Hanging Rock, not the Victorian…

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