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Monthly Archives: November 2016
Bugs, Birds and Bees
Recently I was talking to my mother. My phone call interrupted her in the shed where she was wrestling with the pesticide pump. She was removing the original hose and replacing it with a longer one. By way of making conversation I … Continue reading
Posted in My Mother and Me
Tagged bees, bees and pesticide, cockroach baits, European Parliament, pesticides, toxic chemical warfare
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Songlines, Starmaps and Ubiquitous Suburban Roads
A friend recently flew back into Sydney. It was after sunset and she had the window seat. As the plane banked lower and lower across the north west of the city she began to recognise some of the main roads that … Continue reading
Posted in Habitat, Spirit of Place, Time
Tagged Aboriginal culture, Aboriginal dot painting, Aboriginal history, Aboriginal spirituality, Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth, Blue Mountains, Botany Road, D'harawal, Darug, dreaming tracks, First Peoples, Gamay, George Street, Great Westren Highway, Gundungurra, Indigenous belief system, old roads, original inhabitants, Parramatta road, Pitt Street, Shannon Foster, Songlines, Starmaps, suburban roads, War-ran, Wiradjuri
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A Conversation
The USA will soon have a President elected by people who voted for simplicity over complexity. The kind of simplicity that harks back to 20th Century Germany and Italy, Spain and Japan, Austria, Chile and Brazil. The list unfortunately goes on. … Continue reading
Posted in democracy
Tagged BREXIT, childhood versus adulthood, compromise, democracy, fascism, Parliament, political elite, politics, power, simplicity versus complexity, taxation, USA elections
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