by Orna Ross | Dec 11, 2008 | Uncategorized |
I love the term Freethinker. It's the name that most closely approximates my own approach to matters of meaning but I'm leery of the associations it has gathered in around itself. A freethinker, according to Dictionary.com (rapidly replacing the OED in my affections)...
by Orna Ross | Dec 4, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Gertrude Stein's famous quote – “There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.” – has long been a favourite among non-believers, most lately appearing on the cover of The...
by Orna Ross | Nov 21, 2008 | Uncategorized |
We're all going to die, we all know it. As Mary Oliver puts it in her poem, The Summer Day, “Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon?” Hell yes, Mary, yes. The poem then asks: “Tell me, what is it you plan to do/with your one wild and precious...
by Orna Ross | Sep 25, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Last night, I said goodbye to my “Get it Written” class who, since January last, have been beavering away at the task of completing a book. Some are now finished, some have completed first drafts, some have not got quite as far as they hoped when they...
by Orna Ross | Sep 13, 2008 | Uncategorized |
Everybody says you are supposed to fight cancer. Newspapers carry stories of brave battles against the disease. And Western medicine pulls out its biggest guns for the war – chemotherapy, radical surgery, radiation… I am having all those treatments and more...