Daily Archives: Monday 20 April 2009

Heard at our dinner table

Christians seem to me to be the sort of people who like to create an ‘us’ so they can make someone else a ‘them.’

Just so.

Not said by me, alas, nor by Mr Strange Land, but by my cousin-in-law, that is, my husband’s cousin’s husband. He is a quiet, thoughtful man, of great intellect and insight, who I have come to admire more and more as we have all grown older.

In one of those two degrees of separation moments that are so common in New Zealand (and Adelaide too, I might add), my husband’s cousin and I were friends before I left school and went to university, where I met my husband (to be), completely independently of my friendship with her.

Apologies for the somewhat slack blogging of late; aforesaid said cousin and cousin-in-law and their children have been staying, and we have spent the days and evenings in their company instead of in the e-world.