This week’s article for Mount Gambier’s local paper. If you mention Sony’s recent decision to stop producing blank tapes for Betamax video recorders to people of a certain age (usually male) you may get a response that includes the aggrieved observation that Beta was the better video recording system than VHS. You could pity those …
For publication in our local paper this week. A reflection on White Ribbon Day. Another White Ribbon Day has come and gone. The day challenges us to acknowledge that, for a significant portion of Mount Gambier’s population, home is not a place of security and nurture, but a place of fear and abuse.While the day …
Reflections on the emotional experience of reacting to recurring situations that are losing their capacity to shock. Published in our local paper today. The news of the terrible attacks in Paris (and the bombings in Beruit) seem to be giving rise to a different emotional response to the way people responded to September 11 or …
Some thoughts flowing from attendance at Remembrance Day 2015 in Mount Gambier. Published in our local paper today. For me, it’s the simplicity of silence at Remembrance Day that stands out. That point in our gathering where there are no voices or instruments; the only noise being the cars driving along Wehl and Commercial streets. …
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