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Category: life etc.
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Sweet Spring
Springโฆ sheโs round the corner from here! Lean out, a little further out the window… Ah! There she is! taking her sweet time too the cheeky little bugger. Making her gradual descent to greet us with that perfectly pitched temperature. Corralling the flowers and busying the bees, Coaxing the winter fairies to bed and readying…
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GENOCIDE
Genocide is a divisive word at the moment, we are quibbling over the appropriateness of its use and some people are struggling with the concept of what to term this ongoing bombardment of Palestine. Whether itโs an ethnic cleansing or genocide or a warโฆ what we call it shouldnโt matter, but what it is, is…
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WE REALLY DON’T HAVE TIME
Three days after Christmas, I got a voicemail that my cousin had suddenly passed. It was one of those moments when I thought it was someone else whoโd passed, someone with a same name to which I had no relation. Someone of a distant friendship. I listened to it five times before deeming to return…
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THE JANUARY BLUES SOOTHE
January with her cold shoulder and freeze is finally upon us, on the heels of the most delightful time of year; it seems a cruel joke that Christmas should be followed by such grey and cold and wet; ensconcing us in the thick of winter. A month of Mondays, leaving us in need of pick…
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WAR MAKES REFUGEES OF US ALL
I cannot debate the rights or wrongs of war because, besides not being aptly qualified, my simplistic view is that in most wars there are no right sides; a view that lacks nuance or allows for exceptions. Conflict hardly leads to lasting peace without creating silos of hate and terror and mistrust. So I cannot…
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ON DEATH
I have been surrounded by death a lot recently, loved ones pass so suddenly leaving us floundering in the aftermath. Life is fleeting at the best of times, temporal, and time so cruel it makes a mockery of us because we think we have enough of it to make the most of life with loved…
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HOLD SPACE FOR HUMANITY
There ought to be a creed before heading to the battlefield; in times of war hold space for humanity. Iโm sure thereโs a variation of it in some soldiersโ manual couched by that clause: collateral damage. Australia voted NO in its voice referendum; a referendum meant to recognise the First Nations people and to create…
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JOURNALISM MATTERS
The other day, I was just about to turn off the news. Stop. Go cold Turkey and not bother with any more news but the parliamentary committee had other plans and they were going to pull me back in.Do you ever get the feeling that it’s all a bit too much news? This is the…
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SUMMER- WILD & OUTSIDE
One evening in Paris, after watching one of my best mates complete a gruelling London-Paris ride, we stopped by the Eiffel Tower just in time for us to catch her late-night light show as couples danced with each other because a band had set up on the steps opposite. It was the most charming sight…