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I had a visit from a university friend and her daughters (3 and 9 months). They are gorgeous. It’s strange and pleasing to be able to talk of knowing folks for over 10 (or 20) years. I feel all old but in a good way. AS and her hubby fall into the over [...]
The View from Down Here
The musings of an Aussie seeing the world from waist high.... from a wheelchair
Tag: books
A box in the mail
Austen thoughts
I’m sitting up in bed swimming pleasently in 19th century british literature.
Jane Austen has long been a favourite of mine, both in the elegant video productions and in the books, at least those I have read, largely Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. I have recently bought Persuasion following watching the recent movie “The [...]
The stories of our lives
Blanche D’Alpuget (aka the 2nd Mrs Bob Hawke) was recently recorded giving a quasi lecture on her literary influences and inspirations. Be warned — this is long and not the best public speaking.
It’s got me thinking; what exactly are my lifetime books of note? I will have to give it some thought because I have [...]
A library all my own
I have been sporadically following Tony’s blog for at least 18 months now. He is a Church of England vicar from Oxford who wouldn’t know me from a bar of soap. I like the way he thinks.
In a recent post about Lent he said;
But then came the double whammy. Alison informed me that what I [...]
Quote
Found this interesting from Hugh Mackay an Australian thinker:
“morality (because they) relate to our willingness- as individuals and as a society- to accept some responsibility for each other’s wellbeing.”
