“Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.”
Shari R. Barr
A child is
“Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Happiness is
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Love is
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
Robert A. Heinlein
The Odd Thing About Willow
Willow stands silent and still in a front yard at the end of the main street. Obviously once a model, but her black dress, changing with the seasons, her pointed hat, broom, and a wand grasped lightly in her right hand suggest another occupation now, perhaps touching on the occult. Her presence always attracts attention, sometimes with approval, sometimes with a smile, sometimes with a little superstitious fear and trepidation, sometimes a lot of superstition and judgement leading to complaints and requests for her removal. Mostly though curiosity. Why? Why is she there? What does she represent? Continue reading “The Odd Thing About Willow”
Evrin
Saturday night in Amsterdam, Sunday morning in Sydney, the wonders of technology join us together to bring you a chat with the lovely couple known as “Evrin“, Riny and Evi, Riny Raijmakers and Evi Terschegget to give them their full titles.
Riny is the singer-songwriter of the partnership and Evi brings a beautiful presence and voice from a jazz background, smokey as Evi describes it. Continue reading “Evrin”
Jim & Beth, Tony & Simone
“Dear Tony” the hand written note began. I would recognise my wife’s small delicate scrawl anywhere. “I love you but I can’t carry on hurting Jim and Simone like this” So me and my best friend’s wife are being hurt? “Please don’t call or text me again” Well that might change very soon Beth I thought.