I've found that very cold or hot weather - particularly if it's unseasonable (and there's very little that isn't unseasonable these days) - is useful for developing mindfulness. A sudden gust of a chill south westerly when you're not dressed for it, or sweltering sun and no shade because all the trees are wilted; these … Continue reading Idle thoughts 1
Author: sjk
Lives and works in Bunjurgen, Queensland, Australia.
Musings ONE…
on the lack of a Neanderthal Y chromosome in modern humans [possibly musings 1a and 1b because I can’t help but digress] Photo by Google DeepMind on Pexels.com I always love to throw our out of Africa origins at racists; the information from the article below [1] makes our human African-ness even more to be … Continue reading Musings ONE…
Last days? [Maybe, maybe not]
Just posted this on my historiographer blog. https://historiographerplus.wordpress.com/2024/03/07/last-days/
Death of an author
Another ghost in the machine ‘Quite quickly, I’ – the author [he says] of this 95% AI generated novel – ‘figured out that, if you want an AI to imitate Raymond Chandler, the last thing you should ask it to do is tell it to write like Raymond Chandler. That produces only the most tepid, … Continue reading Death of an author
Thoughts
Rorschach may have been a chaotician.
And of 2023
Will we say that that was the year we burned the world down. January burns in Chile, and July’s embers whirled across the Parthenon and from Achaea, Attica, Corfu, Corinthia, Evia, Magnesia, Phthiotis and Rhodes. Motes of Andalucia, sooty bits of Sicily, Calabrian, Sardinian and Apulian ash. Alberta, Nova Scotia, Central Canada wilded with fires. … Continue reading And of 2023
Musings: 2 poems
By Claude Lorrain - Web Gallery of Art: Image Info about artworkhttp://www.mfa.org/collections/object/apollo-and-the-muses-on-mount-helicon-31442, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=466607 Wanting If dying, I would say… burn me. I want an eastern ascent, clouds of me rising. Or stretched on a bier & taken up by fast disappearing avifauna. Particulates Motes of me winged. carried away Don’t bury me … Continue reading Musings: 2 poems
The strange attraction of ‘The End of Days’ mindset
Personally, I am attracted to the idea [yes it may just be a conspiracy theory] that the world is ruled by plutocrats who somehow believe they will – when the shit hits the fan – be able to retire to Planet B. Or at least an island they own, or a mountain top somewhere. And there they’ll retire to a bunker and await the rapture, or some such epiphany that miraculously fixes everything and lets them get back to business as usual.
Is the Voice a Labor Party initiative?
I believe that many on the YES side also genuinely believe that the VOICE will help end the 245 year long stasis that is the rusted on legacy of European claiming of this country. That stasis is the enormous and systemic gap between First Nations peoples and the rest of the country. I suspect that NO advocates cannot - whatever their motivations - achieve anything other than NOthing. A NO simply strengthens the rust bond. No-one collects anything and we all slide back to some place behind GO.
A hopefully comic interlude interrogating one of Mr. Brandis’s opinion pieces
Photo by Nicholas Swatz on Pexels.com In a July 9 opinion piece in the Sydney morning Herald, we meet this shouty headline: Left’s identity crisis means Dutton can be a champion for equality. The piece is by the ex Liberal Senator George Brandis; he doesn't disappoint us with opinions we'd never expected from him. Let's … Continue reading A hopefully comic interlude interrogating one of Mr. Brandis’s opinion pieces
Inkstained fingers 