Every time something happens to shake my faith in humanity, without delay and always without warning, it is miraculously restored. This time it came as a great double whammy. The comforting words of old friends, who no matter my failings never lose their faith in me and at the same time the beginnings of a…
Read moremore than this.
basically i am broke. but i got something that feels more it’s worth more than having money, more than what i used to have: independence. i am going back to college, going back to the road i left (for good reasons, but nevertheless) two years ago. so many things happened in between – and i…
Read moreThe good hurt
Lately I’ve been on a bit of a fitness kick. Not for any particular reason but it just seemed like time. Tonight was the first night of the new tennis season and right now I’m aware of just about every muscle in my body, even ones that I didn’t think you could use playing tennis….
Read morePeace One Day
“Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.” – Robert Fulghum Something for all of us to think about on this, the International Day of Peace.
Read moreone step up
still no decision – but, and this seems logical to me: i have to get going education-wise. i can work for the rest of my life, but that degreee won’t ever come back. so i guess i got to do, what i got to do – quit my job. go back to uni, get those…
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Read morecapturing the moment
They flocked to the high sierras again yesterday, with the sun, moon and mountains again in perfect alignment to capture the same image as Ansel Adams did 55 years ago. As I thought about how much I would have liked to be there to experience this moment it occured to me that cameras and other…
Read morein the raw
I know that it is not because here I am home alone on a rainy Friday night, but weekends are still the hardest time. Finally stripped bare of the usual layers of protection I carry, a false security that can trap you and keep you from ever getting close, here I am, just me, in…
Read moredreams of the city by the bay
June feels so long away. I’m seriously thinking about a little trip to the Bay Area before then. Will it be the same? Am I the same? I can’t wait to find out. Is it April yet? I forget sometimes how slowly summer passes You disappeared into Departures Only half a year ago It seems…
Read moreSex, lies and telecommunications
Today is another sad day for Australian politics and consequently Australia overall. In the early hours of this morning the government took full advantage of its absolute majority position to push through the full sale of Telstra that so many Australians absolutely opposed. While I am one of the lucky majority of Australians living in…
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spam comments from a certain domain (www.emistry.com) have been flooding my blog and many others on the web. thus i was forced to allow comments for registered users only. signing up takes only a second. just hit the “comment” link – and then click “Log in”. I believe.
Read moredeep cuts.
(from a friend) a very deep cut in my arm..that was near my elbow, left arm of course..this cut looked more like a hole, austria has shoot in me with its ground…stone probably..or maybe austria is a surgeon..this was a doctor knife..a cut..to put some drug inside of me..to let me live or die.. later…
Read moreTo change the world
“Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation” – Nelson Mandela
Read morefive years later
As I was just driving back from my little sister’s 25th birthday dinner it suddenly occurred to me that it was five years ago on this very same weekend that my life changed forever. In the space of 48 hours I submitted my PhD dissertation, played and won a hockey grand final (which just happened…
Read morea thin red line.
i guess this is it. the deciding moment. i’ve been thinking of my life, studies and plans so much. i have to decide now: work or study. i will never ever get my degree finished if work goes the way it does now. i am taking more and more responsibilities, more tasks, more work. when…
Read moreThere but for the grace of God go I
In Australia we, or at least the media, have been quick to judge the Americans for their poor response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. In these images I am reminded of an America I used to see every day as I rode my bike to work. An America where the gap between rich…
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