“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
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Let Me Go
We poor scribblers find inspiration in the most unlikely places. An idea then picked up can lead down all sorts of paths previously unknown. This was the case recently when I was watching an episode of “Deep State” where the character played by Walton Goggins recites part of a poem as an epitaph for one of his companions who was being buried. The words “miss me but let me go” struck a chord within me and I had to see if I could find the source of this poem, if there was one. Continue reading “Let Me Go”
Drama is
“What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.”
— Alfred Hitchcock
Fiction is
“The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.”
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Noisy No More
This noisy miner is no longer noisy, its chirping call forever stilled by the action of one of my neighbours. A neighbour who apparently cares little for us or our environment. This lack of care is demonstrated by this sad sight, a dismal scene of scattered feathers seen in our park recently which once constituted a breathing, living, chirping noisy miner bird. Continue reading “Noisy No More”
Little Miss Comfort
A moment that’s all. A moment in time captured by this photograph, the bare bones of the moment at best . Just two cute puppies in a plush dog bed is about all an uninvolved person would register on seeing this picture. For my wife and I though, this will live on in our memories as the moment in 2007 when we discovered something distinctive about the little light caramel puppy on the right to whom we had given the name Rosie. Continue reading “Little Miss Comfort”
Meditation is not
“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It’s a way of entering into the quiet that’s already there—buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”
~ Deepak Chopra
My favourite Senate candidate
Meet my darling wife Molly, who I am proud to announce is standing as a Senate candidate for the Health Australia Party.
See the party website here or their Facebook page here. You could also follow Molly on her journey at her personal website here which has links to her Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts.
Here is Molly’s electoral “pitch”: Continue reading “My favourite Senate candidate”
Election time
“We should all welcome the disappearance of a ministry which has neither achievement in the past, policy in the present, nor prospects in the future, to justify its existence.”
Chris Watson, first Australian Labor leader 1905
