Posted in Observations on Life on Mar 23rd, 2008
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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Posted in Poems on Feb 11th, 2008
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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Posted in Observations on Life on Jul 13th, 2007
The other evening I was walking along Devonshire Street in Surry Hills here in Sydney. I was returning from a martial arts class and, in spite of the cold weather, was as warm as toast and feeling invigorated. I call Kung Fu ‘ten ways to choke a bloke.’ (just kidding) I was approaching a hotel [...]
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