War Prayers ~ Mark Twain and Lao Tse on the artlessness of war
Yesterday the people of The United States of America marked Memorial Day. It’s a day of baseball, hot dogs and apple pie, of families and communities gathering to celebrate the arrival of summer. It’s a day of flags and bunting and red, white & blue and national pride, and a day to memorialise the millions [...]
ANZAC Day: Lest we forget
ANZAC Day falls on the 25th of April every year. It’s a day in which Australians and New Zealanders commemorate and pay homage to those who served the nation in wars in our history. The day is marked by dawn services and marches in towns and cities throughout the land. It’s a day of sombre [...]
Neil Young: He came dancing across the water
I can remember the first time I heard this album, Zuma. I was all of 20 years old, ski bumming in Whistler, BC, and gathered with a bunch of friends after the bars had closed. I can’t remember her name. She was skinny and not very attractive in any traditional sense, but there was something [...]
The English Patient: the love that sustains you
A sumptous film, visually, in its story, language and characters. It’s keeping me up tonight…blissfully so…
It’s not a bad book, either.
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