The two bi-planes swirled around each other like angry wasps in a violent dogfight.

As far back as 1803 Captain Flinders met the swarthy, sea-going Malajs, clad then, as they are now, in badju and sarong, wearing gracefully-folded turbans on their heads, and with murderous-looking krisses stuck in their girdles.

An artist friend of mine recalls three examples in his own joblife where nervous apprehension was involved.

The virtues to be attained through ascesis are Christ’s virtues, not our own, and theosis is always granted, never achieved by the individual. This connects the ascetic life essentially with the eucharistic ethos: we offer to God only what we receive from him; […]