The Chinese century – progress toward cultural fluidity or imminent conflict?

A couple of things have encouraged me to write about the growth of Chinese power. It is Chinese New-year on…

Left,Right…nowhere! We really need Fluidity

We need to end this destructive battle between the Left and Right and think about what is best for us…

The self, the universe and everything – an odd post Christmas message

While reflecting through my journal (crazy writer types keep journals) I came across some thoughts on the self and the…

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

The Balkans to Iraq Part 1 is here if you have missed the journey soo far. And visit the boys site It’s on the Meter here   Old Friends I first visited Venice in 2008 and the thing I remember most was how nice the…

Gintaras – photography of human-nature

  Gintaras Kasperionis was born in spring of 1986 in Western Lithuania, a most profound year. His master degree in genetics feeds an imagination for the wonder of life. That is why in 2009 when he started to work as photographer he already knew all…

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…

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…

Leaders cannot (or will not) prevent enviromental collapse

Environmental mismanagement is a very sure way for a civilisation (in this sense civilisation is human existence no matter how uncouth) to break down, even to disappear completely. Jared Diamond in his book Collapse: How Societies choose to fail or survive, (another book that had…