My way or the highway
All of us, really, have one track minds. Some of us, though, are happy to explore side tracks, exit signs, underpasses, overpasses, lay-bys, and alternate scenic routes. And some of us aren’t.
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climate change
Sumer is icumen in
Watching Spring end and Summer begin is like saying goodbye to visiting friends and seeing an enemy coming up the street.
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Also climate change
Cancer and bushfires have this in common – the earlier you can catch them the better the chance of a cure.
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Stay safe, my friends
Don’t give me a home among the gum trees when it is bushfire season.
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Dumbocracy
We’ve tried Anocracy, Aristocracy, Autocracy, Democracy, Gerontocracy, Ochlocracy, Plutocracy, Theocracy. Can we try Meritocracy now please?
Gauntlet
I challenged received wisdom, but those who had received that wisdom did not accept my challenge, said that the wisdom was unchallengeable, and therefore the challenge was wrong. Never mind, soon I will be gone, and then you can say “what challenge?”
Dust to dust
A harsh westerly wind blows outside my window. Reminding me that, wherever you are in Australia the desert is never far away. The dust from the centre brought by winds from north, south east and west, permeates our garden, house, enters our lungs, becomes part of us in the way stardust from distant explosions becomes