The battle for Syria (Homs) Middle East

The battle for Syria (Homs)

Europe

Greece – breakdown

Asia

Chinese state capitalism is NOT the answer – read the inside story

Africa

Manolo L B Mantero – Africa

Vipassana Retreat – Torture or Nirvana

If you were told you were to sit completely still and in absolute silence for 11 hours a day for…

February 11, 2012 / No Comment / Read More

Neo-nomads and form

I was Googling “neo-nomads” or neomad, the new nomads. People only rooted in planet earth. Not a culture or a…

February 5, 2012 / No Comment / Read More

The fluid mind, and the effects of sanction and manipulation

We artificially put people, and our decision making, into boxes. Artificial abstracted forms for easy quantification. When we force these…

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Poetry of Sally Clarke – Superlover and Superbrother

Superlover I woke up this morning To find that a super-hero had flown Into my life   Uh-oh trouble, I said Super-heroes are hard to keep And please accept from the outset of this relationship   I will never as much as change a light-bulb…

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Around the world !! In a London Taxi (Part 2)

The Balkans to Iraq Part 1 is here if you have missed the journey soo…

December 13, 2011 / 1 Comment / Read More
Has India changed? – now and then the story of McLeod Ganj
Lebanon – The hidden beauty on the Med
Wine and Beer in Northern Victoria – Strathbogie ranges/Goulbourn River
Half way around the globe in a London Taxi
Beer lover Heaven – Melbourne micro beer fest
Tasmania an ancient and beautiful island
Holgate brewery pub Woodend
The Barossa Valley – peace, wine and food

Neo-nomads and form

I was Googling “neo-nomads” or neomad, the new nomads. People only rooted in planet earth. Not a culture or a house or even a language, but globally connected wanderers of our planet. Of which I once was, and at that time in the late 90′s…

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Poetry of Sally Clarke – Superlover and Superbrother

Superlover I woke up this morning To find that a super-hero had flown Into my…

February 5, 2012 / No Comment / Read More
Risotto Mountain – by Sally Clarke
Gintaras – photography of human-nature
Manolo L B Mantero – Africa
Devil babies invade Swanston Street (or are they Angels?)
Views from the Balcony – David J Campbell
Scott Wiley’s Morocco
Suburbia – an odd thing to choose
The urban photography of Jason A Cina

Vipassana Retreat – Torture or Nirvana

If you were told you were to sit completely still and in absolute silence for 11 hours a day for 10 days, no speaking, no music, no reading or writing, what would you think? Torture? Or a blessing? I recently attended a 10 day Vipassana…

February 11, 2012 / No Comment / Read More

Neo-nomads and form

I was Googling “neo-nomads” or neomad, the new nomads. People only rooted in planet earth.…

February 5, 2012 / No Comment / Read More
The fluid mind, and the effects of sanction and manipulation
Thoughtful industrialists are good for the enviroment
Chinese state capitalism is NOT the answer – read the inside story
The Chinese century – progress toward cultural fluidity or imminent conflict?
Left,Right…nowhere! We really need Fluidity
The self, the universe and everything – an odd post Christmas message
The winter of our discontent – is the revolutionary dream over?
Leisure – and its virtue

So You Think…you can be a champion

It’s easy to imagine So You Think, Australia’s greatest horse in recent memory, appearing out of the dust of Hades carrying one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. A big muscular brut of a horse who races up to his physique, a no-nonsense position…

October 12, 2011 / No Comment / Read More

Oakbank – Picnic racemeeting in Australia

Oakbank – Picnic racemeeting in Australia Oakbank is the biggest picnic race meeting in the Southern hemisphere, held about a 45min…

August 21, 2011 / No Comment / Read More

Thoughtful industrialists are good for the enviroment

The heads of industry can decide to care about the enviroment and when they do they create sustainable industries. Sustainable in all senses of the word. Both profitable and good for our enviroment, and I suspect it makes people happy to work for such a…

February 1, 2012 / No Comment / Read More

Leaders cannot (or will not) prevent enviromental collapse

Environmental mismanagement is a very sure way for a civilisation (in this sense civilisation is…

January 10, 2012 / No Comment / Read More
Greening the Desert – using water vapour for crop production
A New Economic System: What Is Wrong With Ownership?
We need to move out of the city
Sustainable outcomes from equality
Suburbia – an odd thing to choose
Population