Less is a track from Sierra Hull’s album 25 Trips.

A set of song story videos have been posted on her YouTube page, giving a glimpse into the creative process of a maturing artist.
Here’s the one for Less.

Welcome to contractual obligation football.
Seasons that will feature virtual asterisks to qualify a variety of outcomes.
How these competitions are able to proceed seems the second biggest mystery in Australia after why kids are still at school.
The need for them to go on being more a testimony to the fact that particularly the NRL would barely survive a season without games.
The biggest questions this season are now: how will the broadcasters include sound from the ground that is not simply a mob of men swearing; what will happen when someone tests positive; what threshold will be in place to name premiers when the seasons are abandoned at some point or another.
Last week the NRL provided a couple of ‘upsets’. But any round that comes in at 75% is ok.

NRL (last round 6/8; season tally 6/8)
North Queensland (should score more points than Canterbury)
Penrith
Brisbane (at home if their pack turns up two weeks in a row)
Canberra
Easts
Melbourne
Newcastle
Paramatta

AFL (last round -/-; season tally -/-)
Richmond
Collingwood
Essendon
Adelaide (at home)
Geelong (don’t know why)
Port Adelaide
Saint Kilda
Brisbane
West Coast

Every Moment Holy is a collection of liturgies for everyday life composed by Douglas McKelvey.
This one, entitled A Liturgy For Those Flooded By Too Much Information has been published at The Rabbit Room as a response to the coronavirus.

A couple of paragraphs:

When the cacophony of universal distress
unsettles us, remind us that we are but small
and finite creatures, never designed to carry
the vast abstractions of great burdens,
for our arms are too short and our strength
is too small. Justice and mercy, healing and
redemption, are your great labors.
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Guard us then from shutting down our empathy
or walling off our hearts because of the glut of
unactionable misery that floods our awareness.
You have many children in many places
around this globe. Move each of our hearts
to compassionately respond to those needs
that intersect our actual lives, that in all places
your body might be actively addressing
the pain and brokenness of this world,
each of us liberated and empowered by
your Spirit to fulfill the small part
of your redemptive work assigned to us.

Read the whole post at The Rabbit Room.

Randall Goodgame presents his Bible memory verse of the week, a very timely rendition of 1 Corinthians 16 colon, 13 dash, 14.
If you’re trying to get The Pangolin Song out of your head this will help.