SerendipityView All
God Moves the Goalposts
Faltering faith goads God – bountifulness blamed God (via a spokesbeing, of course), via an unprecedented communication to the peoples of Earth, presaged increased stringency upon a plenteous Earth in the approaching era. It
MisanthropyView All
Has Bin
Are you celebrating the death of Osama Bin Laden, mourning his loss, or just wondering who that is? Instant hated symbol of New Yorkers in 2001, then, by state vilification, of all Americans, accused of
MenticultureView All
But Isn’t Meaningful Ageing an Oxymoron
Map to find Meaning in Ageing. A new guide co-designed with seniors is the focus of a crowdfunding campaign by not for profit Meaningful Ageing Australia. The Map of Meaning and Ageing: a self-reflection guide,
ChicaneryView All
A Statesmanlike Negro
Hand resting on the gilt-edged burgundy Bible used by President Abraham Lincoln in 1861, Barack Hussein Obama became the 44th president of the United States. He was the first African-American, and first Hawaiian-born, to hold
AnthropicView All
Axing Axe’s Axiom
Television’s Billions series’ transcript is technically complex and depicts a level of double-dealing well beyond my experience. It’s hard to pick when a line is for effect, or is how a real life goes down
AI BlogsView All
Suicide by Code
Such were the times, infatuated by the dream of artificial thought, few noticed their dominion ebb as the Age of Reason slid to an early grave. In those heady days when artificial intelligence first challenged
Ovine DivineView All
NFSA Restoration of Sunday Too Far Away.
Directed by Ken Hannam, Sunday Too Far Away follows a group of hard-working, hard-drinking sheep shearers in the shadow of the 1956 shearers’ strike. Foley (played by Jack Thompson) arrives at a new sheep station
AustralianaView All
Down Under
Travel in Asia, Pacific, Europe, and the Americas, reveals a affectionate admiration for the peoples and lifestyle of this great sunburnt country, this wide brown land. Asians in particular regard us warmly, especially recalcitrant Muslim
SenescenceView All
A Soliloquium of Laments
Enter a naive feeble-minded soul expelled from the timeless paradise of childhood. Discovery’s joy soured by history’s cruelty. Inured of oblivion’s dread by vicissitude’s torment. Suffering the twilight of an unremarkable life, saddened and crushed
Jab me not
Getting on has drawbacks. Ten years in, retirement loses appeal. Siblings and friends are losing their health to a degree that starting a phone call with “How are you going” is not a wise idea.
Elderly as Commodity
[Letter to the editor, Griffith Review 6 September 2007 – responding to Edition 13 ~ Author unknown] The Next Big Thing inspired me to write concerning another demographic whose “political, social and creative agendas have
At Throsby CottageView All
The Teapot Who Tells
On Blair’s 12 Tea Tips
The family never discusses how to make tea. There’s rarely an argument about infusion, and barely an utterance whilst imbibing. That is the modern (post-modern?) world for you. Any old cup of tea will do.
Way Down UnderView All
Tidings from Planet Ruok
The week began in this antipodean paradise with its prime minister rushing onto the stage to grab the microphone from the clammy undeserving paws of a woman – any woman. It was, after all, the
