Our country is reeling with the news of what has hitherto never touched our country in the terrible scale it appears to be in this shooting within two city mosques (49 dead and dozens still in hospital). Yes we knew of terrorism elsewhere — but yes, always “elsewhere”! And if we strayed overseas we always […]
My wish for this Christmas and New Year: Restoration
I have lots of wishes for the Christmas season and for 2019, but one in particular for all of my online friends and anyone else who really wants 2019 to be better than 2018 in some specific way. Firstly, when we contemplate the real origin of Christmas it’s easier to feel at peace with others and […]
Dishonest ‘reasoning’
We’ve all seen written material that gets our backs up, raises our hackles, makes us see red — or whatever we like to call it. We recognize the manipulation behind the words. Here is a short list of devices typically used in propaganda and in articles designed to swing opinion. I get so mad at […]
Music Composers Trivia
These are all famous composers. I rediscovered some scribbled notes from various (unidentified) sources when tidying my music studio, so I’m wondering how to adapt this collected trivia to an activity for my students. See how you score! Answers at the bottom of the blog. Who was a priest, and a teacher at an orphanage […]
We’re so Unhealthy: WHY? Part #2
Yesterday I covered briefly a number of reasons why Health might have escaped us — do please look back at that blog. Most of the reasons were to do with TIME and how that dictates to us, if we let it. I promised that today I’d cover WHAT RULES US and PROFIT. Before I add to yesterday’s blog […]
We’re so unhealthy! Why?
Not everybody is unhealthy — some are very pro-active about the state of their bodies — but too many of us have just let things ride. That permits our inaction plus the actions of others to determine a sad destiny. Why not take steps to determine our health? When we don’t act in the interests […]
THOTs and SIGNs
While tidying the house in the long summer holiday (it’s summer Down Under) I keep finding scraps of paper with various Pieces of Wisdom or otherwise. Here are more: See the happy moron: he doesn’t give a damn. I wish I were a moron — my God! Perhaps I am! Men stumble over the Truth […]
THOT — worthy of thought
My past blogpost had a few THOTs, and here are some others gathered up from here and there, origins not noted at the time (my apologies to the THOTful people who first came up with these!): BE KIND to your children. One day it’s them who will be in charge of the WHEELCHAIR. The FIRST […]
A THOT ~~ something for THOUGHT
“Tidying up” my papers and files has yielded some small notes with Thoughts worthy to be re-thought. “God whispers to us in our pleasure and shouts to us in our pain.” — C S Lewis “There’s none so blind as they won’t see.” — Jonathan Swift “By the glare of false science betray’d, that leads […]
Is your child ready for school?
“Readiness” is usually a minor matter to parents who both work and are able to extend working hours once the preschooler reaches school age. But how ready is the youngster? Has enough been done to make that transition easier? The following (exhaustive!) list could have eager parents patting themselves on the back; it could have […]
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