A tree. Has roots, branches, a crown, leaves, sometimes fruits, birds that nest and bark. Lets say that you are the leaf which is almost at the top, on a long branch, amongst į0 other leaves. You can see most of the way down to the ground, you can see all the detail on each […]
Read more "A tree. A mystery."Its called innabundy. Its a swedish version of indoor hockey with a few different rules and we play it every Monday and Friday nights. The players range from 19 year old bible students, to mid thirty year old parents from Australia, Cameroon, Sweden, Germany, South Korea etc etc. We are all super different, but all […]
Read more "du är stark"Ask twenty people what they think of trust falls and you get many different answers. Some love trust falls, they understand that such an activity can bring a group of strangers together really quickly, but others realise that, this sort of trust is only fake and very fleeting, knowing real life-changing trust comes from experience […]
Read more "Trust falls."‘I didn’t know what I was made of until I was put in a testing situation.’ I was once in a room with a large group of people learning new things and one of the new things really tipped off a friend of mine and he left the room in anger. I chased after him […]
Read more "We will find out what we are made of."hope – seeing with the eyes of christ. When we wake in the morning we see through tired, blood shot, baggy eyes. We get into buses and cars full of other similarly unimpressed people. What would we prefer to be doing? Paradise, beaches, warmth, enjoying. When some start to talk about changing the world we […]
Read more "We are super heros. – HOPE: the glasses."So I’m laying on my wooden slat bed with a mat on top. Next to me sleeps a beautifully hilarious swiss man, who, luckily, I haven’t punched in my sleep yet. Surrounding the room are multi-coloured mosquito nets that make the room look like a fairy tale land. They contain our other 7 team mates. […]
Read more "Rel 1.2"‘Guy’ is friendly, and hilarious and very hospitable. Like a lot of teen skaters, he is fearless but he is set apart by his smile. It’s as if he’s your Dad and when smiles everything is made right. We met up and sat around for a bit just chatting about the week and some tricks […]
Read more "Sk8 For Lyf"We all used to work full time jobs. Usually working till 5. One of us might take the day off and pack the van, but we started tired. Congregating at a central location, we all piled into the purple van. The air would be filled with a buzzing excitement. You felt it. Most of us […]
Read more "Your favourite band on tour."Van full of unprofessional soccer players rush towards a game. Late already the van runs out of gas on a hill and the team and cheer squad have to return down the hill to refuel. Making it to the match just two minutes in, the players are a little confused but also a little more […]
Read more "DET FC"One of the greatest smells in the human smell bank. 7 am, the depths of winter, frost still on the ground. Shorts and shirt and a stick with no shock absorbers. I walk onto the hockey field naively unaware of the cold with a deep breath. Freshly cut wet grass. It smells healthy. It smells […]
Read more "The valleys, the cobras and the Hingee twins."
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