Thoughts that I capture as they flit through my mind.
The Four Seasons by Yehouda Chaki, 1988 June ushers in winter in Australia. In Germany, seasons do not start on the first day of the month as they do in Australia; rather, they start on the 23rd of the month. Why, I hear you ask? Ponder that as you read through this article. The shortest… Continue reading Personal Seasons
Walk a mile in my slippers. People who know me well understand that retail is not therapy for me. (In contrast, it’s quite the opposite and I avoid it as much as I can.) Still, there comes an occasion in everyone’s life when a little retail therapy is just the ticket for – in my… Continue reading Retail Therapy
One type of legacy. A broad question looms: What is legacy? I answered some of that in last week's post. Beyond that, there are the following considerations, based on activities I have done a lot lately: Sorting through *stuff* in my house: I separate it into what’s useful and what’s not. Each item has a… Continue reading Legacies
A life well-lived, true to self Lately I’ve been thinking about legacy. What is legacy? The Macquarie Dictionary defines legacy as (and I paraphrase): A gift of property by will; a bequest.Anything handed down by a predecessor.A consequence. I see legacy as falling into two broad categories: the formal legacy – what an individual constructs… Continue reading Legacy
2018/19 - in the midst of the Black Summer bushfires Many people are glad to see the back of 2020. For all our projections of 2020 vision at the start of the year, our hopeful plans of what was to come, our 2020 hindsight is vastly different. I know that when Victoria opened up (in… Continue reading Ushering in the New Year
To end a Covid-constrained year we now have a Covid-constrained holiday period. My thoughts go out to all the people who can't share festivities - from all cultural and religious backgrounds - with their families this year. My heart is heavy from the people who are no longer with us, due to Covid (and indeed… Continue reading Covid Christmas
Live webcam Lightbulb moment: the West Gate Bridge is thusly named because it is the Gateway to the West! Seems obvious, doesn’t it? Yet it’s something I never questioned: this feat of construction is something that was always in my childhood and I never stopped to think about its whys and the wherefores. I had… Continue reading West Gate Stories
Fifty years ago Australia experienced its second-worst construction disaster. Here are my memories: my humble contribution to this story of national psyche. The West Gate Bridge today The West Gate Bridge is a vital piece of infrastructure which connects Melbourne's Central Business District to the Western suburbs. Prior to the bridge's completion this route was… Continue reading West Gate Story
MINIMISING MY CARBON FOOTPRINT Found in the shed: a big box of shoes I didn’t remember. Grroooaaaannnnn ...... They are dirty, covered in cobwebs and - even worse - have been chewed by rodents. Those innards coming out definitely have rat-sized teeth-marks around them. Who’s going to want to wear them now? Clearly… Continue reading Walking lightly on the earth
There is a lot of hurting in the world. Sometimes it seems that the older I get, the more I hear about people’s suffering from when they were children. Maybe people from my generation, my friends, have more of a forum to talk about it now, in ways they couldn’t before. Maybe professional organisations are… Continue reading My Fellow Survivors
