catapult magazine

Items tagged family

• Questions of generational difference

  What's nature, what's nurture and what's the product of a generation?

• Back to school

  What the Boomers need to re-learn about security.

• When Mom moved in

  An account of the joys and struggles embedded in 16 years of multi-generational living.

• Chosen generation

  Toward a spacious redrawing of generational boundaries.

• Play is your secret weapon

  Calling all fake superheroes: let down your guard.

• Generations of UNO

  A game that hasn't skipped a generation yet.

• What time is it?

  Family and summer camp memories reinforce the power of game time.

• Delivery

  A community responds to the longing of a childless couple.

• Answers come like drizzled honey

  Reflecting on the quality of connections as a single twenty-something grieving a loss.

• When a house is not a home

  What makes a family a true community?

• A tale of three or four teachers

  Learning from the ancestral line about intuition vs. skill in teaching.

• Returning to the end

  Exploring the theme of grief in Terrence Malick’s film The Tree of Life.

• The electric razor

  Unearthing childhood memories of fear and separation.

• The thirty-year itch

  On the tangle of questions and desires at the point of church transition.

• Paper sack

  Remembering the Christmas Eve celebrations of childhood.

• It was a horse

  Or was it a mule?  Perspectives on tradition.

• Ten things I didn’t expect in 2011

  A retrospective of surprising life changes.

• The tail wind taboo

  Love covers a multitude of sins, if we let it.

• A messy life

  What happens when the mess in the house becomes a metaphor for the mess in other parts of life?

• Blooms, dreams, roots, wings, aging and other things

  How a maxim has taken on meaning throughout a life.

• The chair

  On a piece of furniture that holds the memories of generations.

• Refurbished faith

  Considering the future form of a hand-me-down dresser.

• Simplified

  What we can gain in losing everything.

• An autobiography, with tea

  A North American looks to look beyond the leaves.

• The tasting room

  Savoring the memory of unexpected hospitality.

• Swimming in satisfaction

  On a bassoon, a Big Fish and change of course.

• All who enter here

  Unearthing the memories of love and loss contained in the family cabin.

• My own time

  Giving thanks for the opportunity of commuting.

• Home tour

  Reflecting on glimpses of community during a three-week journey.

• In the meantime

  A reflection on the longing for community in a new place.