Eckhart: The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me.

Through the psalms, there are moments when I understand this. Sometimes, words that the psalmist is addressing to you are suddenly being spoken, by you, to me. 

bernardine bishop the novelist, who has terminal cancer: "when people talk about the afterlife I start imagining it and when one starts imagining it, it seems untrue."

cause for hope in the middle east?

Obama in Israel: " . .It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of her own and lives with the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements of her parents every single day. . . . . (The Israeli students who were listening gave this rapturous applause)  The only way for Israel to endure and thrive as a Jewish and democratic state is through the realisation of an independent and viable Palestine."

at swim, two boys. finished tonight.
doyler: "what cheer,eh?"

habemus papam.
the first Francis and the first Jesuit.
we hope for change