-
Recent Posts
Archives
- August 2019
- July 2019
- February 2017
- December 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- January 2015
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
Categories
- abandoned
- abuse
- adult children
- age
- agony
- air
- anger
- anticipation
- apology
- archicture
- artist
- authoritarian
- baby
- bewildered
- birds
- blossoms
- brothers
- butterfly
- cambridge
- carbon footprint
- celebration
- character
- cherry
- chiropractors
- choir
- civil rights
- cliffs
- close call
- cobwebs
- community
- compassion
- confrontation
- conscience
- country
- crown
- danger
- decency
- dedication
- deluge
- democracy
- demonizing
- depression
- derelict
- despair
- destitute
- destruction
- different
- difficulties
- digbity
- disbelief
- doctors
- don't give up
- dragon fly
- dreams
- Duchess
- Einstein
- escape
- escarpment
- ethics
- explorers
- fairies
- family
- fauna
- fear
- flee
- flora
- fog
- foibles
- forsaken
- friendship
- fun
- garden
- grandeur
- grief
- guilt
- healing
- help
- history
- holy grail
- honour
- hope
- human desperation
- humanity
- Humor
- illness
- incarcaration
- indigenous
- insight
- institutions
- integrity
- invaders
- isolated
- isolation
- jokes
- journey
- justice
- knights
- laughter
- legends
- lichen
- Life
- literature
- loss
- love
- magic
- maths
- meaning
- medieval
- meditation
- mental abuse
- miracle
- modern
- morals
- moss
- mountains
- my books
- mystery
- nature
- needs
- nobility
- NSW Writers Centre
- oppression
- outcast
- pain
- panorama
- parenting
- parents
- party
- peace
- people-watching
- peril
- physical abuse
- physiotherapists
- planet
- Poetry
- politeness
- politics
- pollution
- power struggle
- practicing French
- Prince
- principle
- privelege
- priveleges
- probity
- psychology
- quality
- quest
- refugees
- rejected
- religion
- republic
- responsibilities
- riches
- rights
- rigid
- river
- Royal
- sacrifice
- science
- search
- settlement
- sincerity
- sisters
- speech
- spiders
- spiritual
- spiritual values
- spring
- stammer
- Statues, sculpture dogs
- struggle
- surveyor
- tai chi
- taichi
- toadstools
- town
- transcend
- transcendence
- Travel
- trim taut and terrific
- trustworthy
- truth
- turmoil
- tyrannical regimes
- Uncategorized
- universe
- victims
- view
- virtue
- visit
- visits
- voiceless
- wants
- war
- waterfall
- waterfalls
- Writing
- youth
Meta
Category Archives: difficulties
IMMIGRATION
I was recently inspired by a visit to Chester Cathedral. An exhibition makes clear that compassion for new immigrants is alive and well in their community .It addresses fear of the unknown, fear of a different language, fear of an exotic race, colour … Continue reading
Posted in abandoned, abuse, anticipation, civil rights, community, compassion, conscience, country, danger, decency, democracy, demonizing, despair, difficulties, don't give up, escape, ethics, healing, help, history, incarcaration, insight, institutions, journey, justice, morals, needs, pain, refugees, rejected, spiritual values, truth, turmoil, victims, voiceless
Leave a comment
MAGICAL FLIGHT
Your Etihad Business begins with a Priority Pass through boring old Customs, to the usual magical array of Duty-Free Liquor, French Perfumes, jewellery, chocolates enough to put on kilos…You resist temptation, regardless of Oscar Wilde’s famous injunction. At the Etihad … Continue reading
Posted in age, air, anticipation, celebration, difficulties, don't give up, explorers, grandeur, magic, modern, people-watching, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged bush magic, Travel
Leave a comment
CHARLIE HEBDO
This is a French satirical magazine, regarded as more notorious than clever. This unsophisticated and vulgar publication specializes in, crass jokes, and relies on offence, bums and dicks. As Tory Shepherd says in an article in the Telegraph January, 16th 2015-That’s … Continue reading
Posted in agony, anger, bewildered, confrontation, conscience, danger, demonizing, difficulties, grief, healing, war
Tagged bigotry. society, terrorism
1 Comment
YOU :TIME FOR TRUTH
you hid behind holy orders flogged naked boys at night worked us bare hands barefoot broken building brick walls in winter you cowered behind cloisters had us stroke your greasy hair your hand in our shorts us the guilty you … Continue reading
Posted in abandoned, abuse, agony, anger, bewildered, brothers, community, conscience, depression, despair, destruction, difficulties, disbelief, ethics, fear, flee, forsaken, grief, guilt, hope, human desperation, institutions, isolated, justice, oppression, outcast, rejected, responsibilities, victims, voiceless
Tagged abuse, greasy hair, holy orders, inhumanity, slaves, torture
2 Comments
ONLY THE LONELY
In the last thirty years reports of feeling lonely in the US have doubled. In many countries, including Australia, more people live on their own than ever before. The elderly are isolated by illness and frailty, many far from family. … Continue reading
Posted in community, compassion, country, depression, despair, difficulties, doctors, don't give up, escape, family, friendship, grief, guilt, healing, help, hope, Humor, insight, isolation, laughter, modern, Poetry, psychology, Uncategorized
Tagged depression, isolation, Loneliness
Leave a comment
Molly
molly gives us strength to carry on little girl of four should be the other way around molly’s lost her hair but not her smile there’s this bug inside me you see have to get rid of it then my … Continue reading
JASMINE
Diana was finding it difficult coping with her mother’s yearly visit. Being a harsh disciplinarian with kids was expected, in her day, she thought, but invariably counter-productive. Yet Nana takes it as her duty to help instil manners in her grandchild, … Continue reading
Posted in adult children, anger, authoritarian, confrontation, danger, difficulties, family, guilt, help, insight, modern, parenting, parents, politeness, power struggle, psychology, rigid, stammer, visits
Tagged parenting, psychology, skills
Leave a comment