Monthly Archives: November 2022
Sigiriya
Posted on November 20, 2022 Leave a Comment
Some things you have to see Some things you have to join in their environment To get the full impact of their presence Their domination Their magnetism Their dwarfing of everything around them Unattainable from photograph or film If you haven’t breathed in its presence If you are not engulfed by its domination If you […]
Improvement
Posted on November 11, 2022 Leave a Comment
I’ve said, again and again That there is no point in doing something Unless I want to get better at it I still say it But what it means has changed over time And, I dare say, continues to change The many facets of this thing called improvement Lie in front of me At the […]
A Voice
Posted on November 7, 2022 Leave a Comment
My thoughts flowing from Noel Pearson’s opening 2022 Boyer lecture. Constitutional recognition of Australia’s first nation peoples is a vital missing component, which as long as it stays missing keeps Australia immature, racist, in denial, and unable to face the truth. Conservative Australia fears recognition because it assumes that what follows recognition is repudiation, and […]
Gerry Roberts 
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