catapult magazine

Items tagged friend

• Dear friends

  An extended community provides models of friendship.

• The Punch

  A complicated relationship with a cousin becomes distilled to one incident.

• How much is that doggie in the window (arf, arf)

  A review of Mike White’s film Year of the Dog.

• Don’t talk to me about...anything

  What do we do when polite conversation has become taboo?

• Stories on display

  Artwork in the home reminds a couple of where they’ve been and whom they wish to remember.

• The tenor of a mind

  How fostering conversation rather than debate can shape our minds to be changed.

• Imperial cohabitation

  An evaluation of the messages that limit our household vision.

• Thanks for love

  On discovering that perfectly imperfect someone.

• Live Feed: Christians and Facebook are in a relationship.

  In what ways are Christians responding to new technology, to the detriment or benefit of the Church?

• Welcome to the family

  True human connection is just a Profile away.

• Of drunken birds and calling to best friendship

  A reflection on adulthood, hard friendships and the nature of commitment.

• A eulogy in 12 days

  Chronicling an unconventional friendship, in life and in death.

• Growing up is hard to do

  Nostalgia and regret in remembering the qualities of childhood friendships.

• What a friend we have in guilt

  On falling in with the wrong crowd after a misstep.

• Pine Trail Camp

  On lessons learned at that most formative childhood institution: summer camp.

• Weighty friends

  Remembering friends whose presence brought a sense of rootedness, even in their diversity.

• An affectionate soul

  A tribute to a feline friend who, for a short time, demonstrated unconditional love.

• He puts the lonely in families

  A meditation on the life and death of a friend who called upon others to care.

• Sense memory

  A partial history told in sight, sound, taste and touch.

• So lonesome I could dance

  Remembering and transforming a lonely time through music.

• Dragon’s Milk

  On a couple of beers and a conversation between friends.

• God! What’s that?

  Looking back at the life of a friend who was inspiring and unique, inside and out.

• A secret prison

  On the things we carry in late adolescence.