Archive for April, 2007

Fair trade

I caught the tail end of Triple J’s Hack, a current affair program and was disappointed to hear Australia’s latest refugee stunt. Apparently, we are considering exchanging refugees with America. Refugees will be ‘processed’ in each country’s off-shore facility, and then potentially traded. I can imagine it now. The phone rings.
“Howie?”
“Good [...]

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Moments

There are moments where time seems to lag, as if the normal sixty seconds per minute rule no longer applies. Sometimes this is a blissful thing – there are those moments which you wish never cease. That sense where all is as close as we will ever find to perfection. At other [...]

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In the Garden

These hands lovingly fashioned the universe, and knit together first man and first woman. Hands that rejoiced in the light of first day now trace the edges of an impenetrable darkness.
God incarnate, Son of Man, on his knees. Terrified. Alone. Through tears the ground is a blur. All [...]

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Obsessed

I have been tagged by Anna with the obsession meme.  I wouldn’t have described myself as especially obsessive, but there are some things that frustrate me if they do not occur in a certain way !
1.  I absolutely cannot stand the doona being on the bed askew.  As far as I am concerned, it is [...]

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Faces

On the weekend I attended a wedding.  Everything was beautiful, from the bride to the distant Melbourne cityscape bathed in gentle light behind her, the bridesmaids, the three year old page boy who curiously wandered about in a kilt.   The retiring sun reflected off cheery lanterns and cheerier people.  The clink of glasses, glistening wine, [...]

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