When I get time I will cut and paste my letter to The Monthly about the hatchet job article it published on Germaine Greer.
Have had other letters published in the last 6 months - so may put them on too.
It finally feels like the humidity has gone from the air outside.
All is well apart from our dog killing a stray pigeon this morning, so I best be on my way home.
Spent 4 and a half hours at the hairdresser(!) This is what comes of not going for 4 months.
Still reading Motherless Brooklyn - plenty of New York streetscapes to fall into.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Getting lost in the stories and histories we have made - fact & fiction.
Distractions.
Late nite TV - Letterman, Seinfield, Curb Your Enthusiasm. (Also can't resist another season of Survivor - Heroes and Villians).
Magazine articles on Tasmania - day dreaming again.
Historical anthology of The Birth Of Latvia.
Surfing around the internet for images and resources for Easter, (and pumpkin spice scones).
Stopping for coffee in Willunga.
What is life all about if not little distractions and detours?
Getting lost in the stories and histories we have made - fact & fiction.
Late nite TV - Letterman, Seinfield, Curb Your Enthusiasm. (Also can't resist another season of Survivor - Heroes and Villians).
Magazine articles on Tasmania - day dreaming again.
Historical anthology of The Birth Of Latvia.
Surfing around the internet for images and resources for Easter, (and pumpkin spice scones).
Stopping for coffee in Willunga.
What is life all about if not little distractions and detours?
Getting lost in the stories and histories we have made - fact & fiction.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
The Pain of Life
Life issues.
Despair, pain, grief, guilt, sadness - it was the worst scenario. The whole atmosphere is changed.
Still processing something that has affected so many people.
Could we just rewind this week and reply a different outcome.
There is a sense of failure which questions why I work in the mental health field.
Can't relate anymore stuff, but am intensely thinking and offering prayers.
Other life issues include being paid at the wrong rate for the past 18 months??
Still waiting for Rumunerator to get their act together.
Still waiting to hear about a bogus mastercard amount reimbursement.
Enjoyed my show and tell with Ilze on Latvia, getting some more info - will send off some other pix and maps. Also saw Mrs Calldicot's Cabbage War at a screening at the nursing home - seen before but what a hoot.
Missed an early deadline for the April issue, obviously not meant to do that one - will make up for it with a bumber May article and lots of pix.
Despair, pain, grief, guilt, sadness - it was the worst scenario. The whole atmosphere is changed.
Still processing something that has affected so many people.
Could we just rewind this week and reply a different outcome.
There is a sense of failure which questions why I work in the mental health field.
Can't relate anymore stuff, but am intensely thinking and offering prayers.
Other life issues include being paid at the wrong rate for the past 18 months??
Still waiting for Rumunerator to get their act together.
Still waiting to hear about a bogus mastercard amount reimbursement.
Enjoyed my show and tell with Ilze on Latvia, getting some more info - will send off some other pix and maps. Also saw Mrs Calldicot's Cabbage War at a screening at the nursing home - seen before but what a hoot.
Missed an early deadline for the April issue, obviously not meant to do that one - will make up for it with a bumber May article and lots of pix.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Emersion in Mahler 8 - 13th of MARCH 2010
The Mahler 8 symphony is a glorious creation.
Voices used as an instrument as much as the intricate glimpses of the other sounds.
Soaring horns overlaid on to hints and subtle naunces of strings and woodwind. Trickles of harps ebbing to soaring voiceds folded throughout.
Triumphant and complex.
I feel like I am just beginning to absorb the beauty of classical music - as discussed with a friend today - maybe as a teenager and thereabouts I was just not able to have the life expereince to emerse myself in this music.
I would love to see this performed in a cathedral with its emotional power given over as a pledge of love to our God of love - the most powerful thing in us and beyond us.
Voices used as an instrument as much as the intricate glimpses of the other sounds.
Soaring horns overlaid on to hints and subtle naunces of strings and woodwind. Trickles of harps ebbing to soaring voiceds folded throughout.
Triumphant and complex.
I feel like I am just beginning to absorb the beauty of classical music - as discussed with a friend today - maybe as a teenager and thereabouts I was just not able to have the life expereince to emerse myself in this music.
I would love to see this performed in a cathedral with its emotional power given over as a pledge of love to our God of love - the most powerful thing in us and beyond us.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Mahler 8, The Saphires and the Quarry Market
Computer says error??
Hope this translates to the blog.
Ears are still blocked - trying a steroid spray - might help with the chronic cough too. Wax is gone after oiling up the ears and two syringing episodes. Now have eustacian tube dysfunction.
Hope I can hear these productions in all their glory.
What is it like being half deaf?
Handicapped by a fog in communication - just enough to disturb me.
Hope this translates to the blog.
Ears are still blocked - trying a steroid spray - might help with the chronic cough too. Wax is gone after oiling up the ears and two syringing episodes. Now have eustacian tube dysfunction.
Hope I can hear these productions in all their glory.
What is it like being half deaf?
Handicapped by a fog in communication - just enough to disturb me.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Miracle of the week
Miracle of the week - after at least 10 washes in the washing machine my lost multi trip train ticket appeared, tucked in the rim inside - ! - how it survived a week in those conditions I will never know.
Also found a violin CD that was AWOL for some time.
Health issue(s) of the week - I can't hear you, I mean my ears are so packed to the rafters with wax they were buzzing. One syringing down, one to go, plus Waxoil. Still have a nagging pain from that fall in the bath.
Book club happened and I met some new people and people got passionate about historical events relating to Henry VIII and his cohorts. I am still ploughing through the book, so I felt a little disadvantaged - and have decided I can come back to this book after reading one I really want to read - 'Brothers and Sisters'.
Lent out 'Just Kids' memoir of Patti Smith and found out that 90% of the people there had never heard of Patti Smith - Shame.
Also lent out 'The Bell Jar' which I advocated as our next book, and it is(!) Read it.
Thinking about how to pressent my holiday memories - haved got a DVD of pix, (if I can get it to work) and a photo book pending.
Need to add music and verse and do a big edit.
Thinking of calling the evening 'Holiday Road'.
Have a friend who is doing a work exchange to England - basically going to work over there for a while and travel while over there presumably.
Me, I would just like to travel the road - forget the working part!!
Also thinking about Easter and the road to the cross.
Interesting debate on Q & A the other night about faith & respect.
Flowering of the cross - visual symbol of what was won - the beauty and passion of life eternal - world without end - life means life.
Also found a violin CD that was AWOL for some time.
Health issue(s) of the week - I can't hear you, I mean my ears are so packed to the rafters with wax they were buzzing. One syringing down, one to go, plus Waxoil. Still have a nagging pain from that fall in the bath.
Book club happened and I met some new people and people got passionate about historical events relating to Henry VIII and his cohorts. I am still ploughing through the book, so I felt a little disadvantaged - and have decided I can come back to this book after reading one I really want to read - 'Brothers and Sisters'.
Lent out 'Just Kids' memoir of Patti Smith and found out that 90% of the people there had never heard of Patti Smith - Shame.
Also lent out 'The Bell Jar' which I advocated as our next book, and it is(!) Read it.
Thinking about how to pressent my holiday memories - haved got a DVD of pix, (if I can get it to work) and a photo book pending.
Need to add music and verse and do a big edit.
Thinking of calling the evening 'Holiday Road'.
Have a friend who is doing a work exchange to England - basically going to work over there for a while and travel while over there presumably.
Me, I would just like to travel the road - forget the working part!!
Also thinking about Easter and the road to the cross.
Interesting debate on Q & A the other night about faith & respect.
Flowering of the cross - visual symbol of what was won - the beauty and passion of life eternal - world without end - life means life.
Monday, March 8, 2010
one and a half oscars
TIRED.
Watched one and a half Oscars.
great programing with a public hol and a day off.
now i need to see some of the movies - !
Watched one and a half Oscars.
great programing with a public hol and a day off.
now i need to see some of the movies - !
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Adelaide Writers' Week - Twenty 10 -: Reading as therapy, narcotic, inspiration and voyeur.
Having the good fortune to be able to attend a large slab of the said Writers' Week - having secured some annual leave.
Have been leading a charmed life, traveling overseas, exploring new places and now journeys to Adelaide each day to hear new authors and ideas.
Decisions first - East or West?
Who owns the past? A bit dry and crowded, so I wander. Before I get restless to see more I hear this statement - 'We live life forwards, but understand it backwards' too true.
The next tent is discussing breaking stories. A writer whose name escapes me reveals he started off writing book reviews and progressed on to features and journalism and now books.
Foray to the book tent - complete joy!
Make a selection while considering whether to stand in the long line for coffee (no soy).
My picks of the large range are-:
The Tall Man by Chole Hooper & Brothers and Sisters - edited by Charlotte Wood - who I would later stubble upon, not literally(!)
Peter Goldsworthy launches his new short story collection with a few often heard ancedotes, the wine runs out before I get there, but was the only wine on offer throughout the week - Wine industry get on board, I say..............................
Listen to a UK author on historical fiction, cortesans, nuns and venus. As I am currently struggling with a Tudor exploration novel (Wolf Hall) I pass on these books.
Listen to a session where four writers discuss their favourite books and influences. Gratified to hear one of them affectionately recall Enid Blyton.
Decide to stay on and listen to an unknown author to me - Charlotte Wood. Turns out to be the editor of my selected book, which I hear more about and the genesis of. Duly get it signed by Charlotte - Thankyou. The introduction mentions the paradox of being a sibling and illuminates this. Charlotte describes Patrick White declaring he had nothing in common at all with his sister apart from blood. Charlotte does points out, 'Blood and childhood are what haunt us.'
Can't wait to read this.
This is only on day.
Day two for me, Adelaide heats up, AC/DC pound out their beat over the city and there are panels on scientists and peculiar obsessions.
A launch of a short story collection - Gathers and Hunters.
A meet the uathor with Marina Lewycka who reads delightfully from 'We are all made of glue.'
Throughout all these sessions I sit next to people and have a natter, meet neighbours and generally enjoy the atmosphere.
I dabble a bit in the talks on journalism and peotry before making the error of getting the 3.26 train home, which is invaded by school children halfway home.
Wednesday decide to have a break halfway through and do domestics. In addition to putting my multi trip bus ticket through the wash - NO!
Thursday's panel is full of vigor on the topic of fire and water. The Australian sensibility of climate is really strong. Looking forward to a book on the CFS Via a women's perspective - 'Point of Ignition'.
Wet Ink launch their competition and then I encounter the hit author of the week - Adam Nicholson - who I confess to never hearing of previously. He has a big following being the current owner and steward of Sissinghurst house and garden in Kent. He is self depreciatingly English and utterly charming and outlines his revamp of Sissinghurst beginning in 2004.
The Europe Europe panel goes nowhere fast.
The day redeemd by Markus Zusak who appears quite humble, youthful and aussie. Insight into how he came to write and write so well about World War two.
Sojourn to the Adelaide Gallery to see the bienale - weird and weirder............................
Today I had the total privilidge of been read to again.
Poetry by Roo Borson, a Canadian, describing Art and mysticism as very close and with a plea to 'lets just live'.
The Strange Passions panel is a standout keeping the audience enthralled with Sophie Thomson as introducer, adjudicator etc.
Majestic Whales, plague rats on the Scottish New Hebrides and magic organics of Lolo.
I stayed on to hear the launch of Kill Your Darlings and Clementine read her tale of the search for true love online.
So can I go back to the book tent now??!
Tempted to get Kill Your Darlings and one more splurge.
Reading as thrapy, narcotic, inspiration and voyeur.
Have been leading a charmed life, traveling overseas, exploring new places and now journeys to Adelaide each day to hear new authors and ideas.
Decisions first - East or West?
Who owns the past? A bit dry and crowded, so I wander. Before I get restless to see more I hear this statement - 'We live life forwards, but understand it backwards' too true.
The next tent is discussing breaking stories. A writer whose name escapes me reveals he started off writing book reviews and progressed on to features and journalism and now books.
Foray to the book tent - complete joy!
Make a selection while considering whether to stand in the long line for coffee (no soy).
My picks of the large range are-:
The Tall Man by Chole Hooper & Brothers and Sisters - edited by Charlotte Wood - who I would later stubble upon, not literally(!)
Peter Goldsworthy launches his new short story collection with a few often heard ancedotes, the wine runs out before I get there, but was the only wine on offer throughout the week - Wine industry get on board, I say..............................
Listen to a UK author on historical fiction, cortesans, nuns and venus. As I am currently struggling with a Tudor exploration novel (Wolf Hall) I pass on these books.
Listen to a session where four writers discuss their favourite books and influences. Gratified to hear one of them affectionately recall Enid Blyton.
Decide to stay on and listen to an unknown author to me - Charlotte Wood. Turns out to be the editor of my selected book, which I hear more about and the genesis of. Duly get it signed by Charlotte - Thankyou. The introduction mentions the paradox of being a sibling and illuminates this. Charlotte describes Patrick White declaring he had nothing in common at all with his sister apart from blood. Charlotte does points out, 'Blood and childhood are what haunt us.'
Can't wait to read this.
This is only on day.
Day two for me, Adelaide heats up, AC/DC pound out their beat over the city and there are panels on scientists and peculiar obsessions.
A launch of a short story collection - Gathers and Hunters.
A meet the uathor with Marina Lewycka who reads delightfully from 'We are all made of glue.'
Throughout all these sessions I sit next to people and have a natter, meet neighbours and generally enjoy the atmosphere.
I dabble a bit in the talks on journalism and peotry before making the error of getting the 3.26 train home, which is invaded by school children halfway home.
Wednesday decide to have a break halfway through and do domestics. In addition to putting my multi trip bus ticket through the wash - NO!
Thursday's panel is full of vigor on the topic of fire and water. The Australian sensibility of climate is really strong. Looking forward to a book on the CFS Via a women's perspective - 'Point of Ignition'.
Wet Ink launch their competition and then I encounter the hit author of the week - Adam Nicholson - who I confess to never hearing of previously. He has a big following being the current owner and steward of Sissinghurst house and garden in Kent. He is self depreciatingly English and utterly charming and outlines his revamp of Sissinghurst beginning in 2004.
The Europe Europe panel goes nowhere fast.
The day redeemd by Markus Zusak who appears quite humble, youthful and aussie. Insight into how he came to write and write so well about World War two.
Sojourn to the Adelaide Gallery to see the bienale - weird and weirder............................
Today I had the total privilidge of been read to again.
Poetry by Roo Borson, a Canadian, describing Art and mysticism as very close and with a plea to 'lets just live'.
The Strange Passions panel is a standout keeping the audience enthralled with Sophie Thomson as introducer, adjudicator etc.
Majestic Whales, plague rats on the Scottish New Hebrides and magic organics of Lolo.
I stayed on to hear the launch of Kill Your Darlings and Clementine read her tale of the search for true love online.
So can I go back to the book tent now??!
Tempted to get Kill Your Darlings and one more splurge.
Reading as thrapy, narcotic, inspiration and voyeur.
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