It seems to be normal in the world of blogging to round up an old year with your favourite posts from the past year. I know I’m coming to the party late.
Looking back on the year, and the blogs I have written, it’s impossible not to feel amazingly grateful at all the places I have been able to visit, and the projects and (more importantly) people I have encountered.
So I’m starting the new year in gratitude for the old. Here are my favourite posts (and my readers’ favourites) from the past 12 months of life at The Good Stuff (all of which you can now find here).
Here goes:
This year I was most inspired by my friends in UNOH in Bangkok, our Tearfund partners at Good News Family care in Buxton, Hope Corner in Runcorn and DISC in Cornwall and the extraordinary work of Pamela Leon in Guatemala. More than ever before I was totally inspired by the organisation I work for, and realised that I love my job.
In July I was thinking about how believing shabby stories about the world helps nobody.
In September I was in Switzerland with Micah Network and a raft of professional poverty-fighters from around the world, and I found myself challenged about why it matters that we take things personally.
In October the husband and I took a holiday to Devon rather than Cyprus, and I wrote about why I think that life is richest when we live within limits.
In November my beautiful niece Amelie was born and I wrote her a letter.
It was also a year for theatrical adventures and over the summer I wrote about how we formed our theatre company, and then what most inspired me during our adventures in Edinburgh.
This is the four of us who got the couch.
I wrote a post about one of my favourite Sundays in 2012 with our local community.
And finally, I ended the year in the USA with family and friends where the snow followed us across three states, and I thought all about my addiction to consumerism.
What a great year. Stay tuned for 2013.
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