ZIBALDONE

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Zibaldone is an Italian vernacular commonplace book. | | The word means a "heap of things" or "miscellany". | |

A commonplace book is a depository for those miscellaneous heaps of things: words, pictures, reflections - all the good stuff.

It is a little library of note. | | It is a scrapbook featuring items picked up along the highways and byways of life.

| | Welcome to Kristi's Zibaldone. | |

Kristi Mair

Mar 14
7 min

Prayer in the Time of Coronavirus

'Shall we pray?' 'Yes. Great idea.' <Silence> *Thinks*: 'I guess I'll start, then.' *Silently prays*: 'Lord, please help us to pray in line with your heart.'...

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Kristi Mair

Feb 17
7 min

Questions from Cambridge and Oxford University Students.

Interested in what kinda questions students at Cambridge and Oxford are asking on the Christian faith? I have been collecting them. I found Pete Dray's post ...

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Kristi Mair

Nov 13, 2019
8 min

A Pilgrimage in Search of Home

I reached the road which would lead me to Ashby, but on such a beautiful day, knowing my parents would be out for a while longer, I turned right instead and ...

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Kristi Mair

Jun 22, 2019
6 min

Vienna Waits For You - Touring Wien's Church Buildings. (Part 2/2.)

Hey, you made it! I'm sorry I'm a little late. Los geht's! (Let's go!) A quick refresher while we head to a quieter part of town. Here are some of the buil...

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Kristi Mair

Jun 21, 2019
3 min

Vienna Waits For You - Touring Wien's Church Buildings. (Part 1/2)

Vienna, home to the Wiener Schnitzel, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and, of course, Klimt. It's housed the Habsburgs; nursed Freud's psychoanalytic skil...

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Kristi Mair

Apr 1, 2019
13 min

On Kingdom Discipleship: How Does Kingdom Living Shape My Day?

Kingdom Conundrum 'Kingdom' - maybe 'sovereignty', to be more precise - isn't a word we use or hear much of outside of 'Brexit' chat; and, let's face it, it'...

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Kristi Mair

Mar 25, 2019
3 min

Creation to Cross

I've been listening to the birds singing again. It got me to thinking: I wonder what Eden sounded like? So I started to imagine, and then a few other things ...

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Kristi Mair

Mar 15, 2019
2 min

A Reflection on Fractured Refractions

It’s raining. Again. And I’m pretty sure I’m experiencing the emotional whiplash of turbulent weather systems. Anyone else? Last weekend, I awoke to snow cov...

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Kristi Mair

Jan 24, 2019
5 min

Why More>Truth?

As many of you are no doubt already aware, last year (in addition to starting a PhD, getting a new job and moving cities) I wrote my first book (I know, why?...

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Kristi Mair

Jan 9, 2019
0 min

// PhD-Life //

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Kristi Mair

Nov 12, 2018
3 min

Monetian Memories

Linguistic London is one of my favourite things about living here. I can follow German tourists (in a non-stalkery way!) around art galleries as we traipse t...

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Kristi Mair

Nov 8, 2018
1 min

I Fell Over

I remember it like it was yesterday. It was, in fact, last Tuesday. After a tearful morning, and a timely chat, I went for a walk. I didn't get very far. I...

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Kristi Mair

Oct 24, 2018
2 min

Perceiving Pumpkins

As we pull onto the dirt track of Cattows' Farm, weaving around departing cars driving straight at us, there is a palpable sense of excitement hanging in the...

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