how dare you

Greta is not "our leader" - the planet needs no leader but Gaia. What Greta does is tell the truth. Jeanne d'Arc perhaps . . . And apologies for the Murdoch media link!

Lest we forget

The 2019-20 Australian bushfires were unprecedented in ferocity and geographic extent.

This video Hymn for the quiet Australians, by Matt Karger, I believe poses the view that the government's "quiet Australians" are actually aggrieved and care deeply about our country.

The can is always kicked down the road but Uluru is a game changer.

Megan Davis on Makarrata and the Australian people. Read the Uluru Statement from the Heart here

‘Witnessing Gezi' by Turkish photojournalist Emin Özmen. The events are long gone now but this short film will make you weep and give you a slither of hope at the same time. Watch on World Press Photo

"SING IN ME, OH MUSE, AND THROUGH ME TELL THE STORY"

Bob Dylan's award of the Nobel Prize for Literature has raised many objections and much discussion.

“Read his acceptance speech here and perhaps you'll agree he's one classic of a modern poet,

Ursula Le Guin

One of the greatest writers of the modern day, Ursula Le Guin, has died at age 88.

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”

Vale John Berger

Death comes to us all - and now John Berger, Jan 2 2017. Nice quote here and lovely memoriam here. Vale and farewell, I wish I'd known you personally.

Random Thoughts

Bits and pieces that don't fit anywhere else