Posted in books on Sep 30th, 2009 3 Comments »
Wanting by Richard Flanagan. The back cover blurb promised so much: “You will never have read anything like Wanting before. Lost polar expeditions, an orphaned child who becomes a black princess, a woman grieving for a daughter she never had, and Charles Dickens falling in love - all come together in one of the most […]
Posted in the arts on Sep 27th, 2009 No Comments »
I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like. In this case, it’s Paul Klee. The shapes, the colours, the use of space. There’s something about the abstracts that I find very appealing. Now to get some posters to hang on the empty white wall crying out for some colour and interest.
Fire […]
Posted in travel, quirky bizarre on Sep 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Another favourite holiday snapshot - this time from Washington.
Posted in ethics & justice, god, faith & spirit on Sep 26th, 2009 1 Comment »
Here’s another belated blog post. This one has been sitting in an email subfolder since June 2003 after attending a workshop on building community. I feel reasonably safe posting it now, even though most of the questions remain unanswered and some of the issues remain the same. It’s more of a Dear Diary entry, so […]
Posted in the weather on Sep 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Sitting in Parramatta mall today, eating subpar sushi, enjoying the sunshine, and people watching. Including the undercover cops busting someone for what I guessed was probably drugs. I was watching them. Then I realised they were watching me watching them. And then it became really hard to find something more interesting to watch. There wasn’t […]
Posted in travel, quirky bizarre on Sep 23rd, 2009 3 Comments »
Yep, this is still one of my fav holiday snapshots. Taken on the flight deck of the US Intrepid in Manhattan (July 2009).
Posted in quirky bizarre, miscellaneous on Sep 22nd, 2009 2 Comments »
For a time, when I was working in Library Land and used to compile indexes of websites in the days before del.icio.us and the like, I received a variety of emails with links to interesting websites. For a time, I would save the ones that particularly appealed, intending to add them to this blog. For […]