Category: Thoughts
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5 Things (redux)
So this is my first post in a little while. Actually in a long while when I think about it… I’ve barely updated this blog all year really. I’m sorry for that. I still see blogging as a major part of my writing life and I keep meaning to update more often. I’ve just had…
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Lest We Forget
Yesterday was ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand, commemorating the Gallipoli landing on April 25, 1915. Of the more than 44,000 Allied deaths at Gallipoli almost 11,000 were ANZACs; over 130,000 soldiers died on both sides… [Read more…]
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Oscar Haiku
I love the Oscars. I’m a big movie buff so watching the Oscars is one of my favourite things each year. It always brings back a lot of memories, particularly of certain films and where I was at that time in my life. I can still remember when Roberto Benigni won; he was so happy…
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Books of the 00s
It’s hard to believe it’s almost the end of another decade, isn’t it? The 00s have gone by so quickly and so much has happened in the last ten years. From tsunamis to bushfires; Afghanistan to Iraq; 9/11 to Katrina; the millennium to the GFC. I was still in high school in 1999. It feels…
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Family Trees
Do you ever think about your family tree? About where you come from? I’ve been thinking about it quite a lot recently. The idea of learning more about my family line is something that has always interested me and I’ve often found myself looking at genealogy websites, wondering… [Read more…]
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The Elephant Graveyard
Image: Elephant Skeleton ~ Mike Richardson When I close my eyesI dream of deepest AfricaThe MotherlandOur ancestral homeWhere the orange sun risesOver the plantation landsAnd the hot winds blowAcross the Serengeti plains Deep in the wildernessVultures hover over an elephant graveyardSwooping to pick at the fleshOf all that remainsTheir bones lie everywhereScattered and brokenDiscarded by…
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September Reading List
These are some of the books I plan to read over the next month. I like buying most of my books second-hand if I can and I’ve had a lucky run on eBay during the last few weeks; all of the auctions I’ve bid on I’ve won and I even found a couple of hardcovers…
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I Am
Image: I Am Another You ~ Jeff Robinson I am many thingsA son, a writer, a boy, a man, a friendI am all those things and I am nothingOn myself, I depend I am a memory that will be forgottenI am a face that will fade awayI long to be rememberedBut even night must fade…
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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…