Category: News
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The Change Within
Thousands attend a rally in Isfahan supporting Mousavi (photo: faramarz) Today bloggers from around the world are uniting in support of the protesters and human rights in Iran. What’s happening in Iran is despicable and I’m proud to join them today; to see innocent people left beaten and dying on the streets, their free speech…
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Gone Too Soon
I’m still stunned by the last couple of days. It’s hard to believe we’ve lost two of the most iconic stars of the twentieth century in one day. I’ve been reading the tributes from around the world for both Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett but I think this one by Cathy Babao Guballa captures the…
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Voices of Change
One of the enduring images from the protests in Iran (photo: faramarz) There’s an old story from The Arabian Nights that I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. It tells the story of an ox and a donkey and is one of the stories that comes from the original texts, unlike other stories (like Aladdin…
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Quotes About Writing
Image: Vintage Fountain Pen ~ Kriss Szkurlatowski Before I get into this post, I mentioned in my last post that I’d write a review of the new Star Trek film after I saw it. I posted it earlier at my other blog if anyone wants to check it out. If you haven’t seen the film…
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One Week Later
Image: Fire in Upper Ferntree Gully ~ jsarcadia This is a follow up to the poem I posted earlier about Black Saturday and the bushfires in Victoria. I wrote the poem as a way of trying to move through the horror I felt in the days following the tragedy. There were so many images, so…
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Hell on Earth
Image: Smoke Clouds ~ Jety Red sunrise burningWind howling among the trees:Nature is unleashed The beauty of fire:An unstoppable furyDancing on the wind Eucalypt forest:Ancient trees of memoryScorched by angry flames Smoke clouding the sky:Embers falling like raindropsIn the darkest light Twenty years of lifeReduced to rubble and ash:We have each other A fallen tree…
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We Shall Overcome
If there’s one good thing about having insomnia it’s that when something happens in the world, you get to see it at the same time as everyone else. Early yesterday morning, while most Australians were still fast asleep, I experienced a moment in history I’ll never forget. To see an African American in the White…
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Quotes for Peace
Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem This is a follow up to my last post. My look back at 2008 was quite long; I had a lot to say, particularly as the situation with Israel and Hamas was developing. It has now escalated further and I’ve been extremely disturbed by the violence and the scenes coming…
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A Piece of History
I was five years old when the Berlin Wall fell. I have few memories of it happening but I do remember some of the scenes; the crowds flooding the checkpoints, the sections finally coming down. I’ve often wondered what it must have felt like at the time, to watch history unfold. Now I think I…
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Quotes for the Weekend
Don’t you love a good quote? I know I do. I have several books of quotations and I’m always reading them. I use quotes with my writing and whenever I need inspiration, there’s always a gem waiting to be found. With the US election and the state of the economy, I thought it seemed like…