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Solitude

On Good Friday I did something I haven’t done for a very long time. I spent the entire day in solitude. I didn’t answer my mobile, no radio, no TV. Not a single word to a soul. Was I lonely? No. I recently read a book by Deepak Chopra regarding meditation. Please don’t rush to [...]

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Chess

A game I have always been fascinated with, but unable to excel at, is chess. I once saw two guys play a full game without a board. They called their moves and another guy followed them on the board. I was absolutely in awe of the intellectual capacity of these guys. It struck me that [...]

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Who is he?

It’s funny how the most disparate incidents can trigger emotion. Some years ago the Salvation Army had a TV ad running that depicted an old man in a torn singlet looking into a dirty, cracked mirror. He was looking at himself as a young man, wasting his life on alcohol and drugs. It touched me [...]

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Sentinel

I love to write poetry. I don’t know about you, but I find it soothing to my soul. This particular one was inspired by an old man who used to parade up and down the footpath alongside a particularly busy highway in Sydney, Australia. He walked up and down with a sandwich-board adorned with signs [...]

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