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Thanksgiving (the real one)

Nov 28, 2009
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Ubi Caritas has written a post listing things she is grateful for. It is almost music the way it comes out, & captures what a "thanks-giving" should be. I encourage you to read it, & write your own. Here's mine.

I am grateful for my situation, in a beautiful part of a peaceful country.

I am grateful for the rain. Our parched Australian bush has brought out its delicate smells, & the grass which had nearly died is lush & green. I'm grateful for the patterns of washed silt over the asphalt.

I am grateful to have work, & exciting, engrossing work at that. I meet people, show them new ways to do things, I create things.

I too am grateful for music. My children play & compose it, I sing on Sundays; I appreciate subtleties of music (& a good rough rock number). Bach, Freddy Mercury, Zap Mama, Alan Stivell...

I am grateful to be able to read & write.

I am grateful the bike works with zero maintenance.

I am grateful technology lets me zip off a message around the world, that I can share something of me. I'm grateful other people are good enough to let me read about their lives & thoughts.

I am especially grateful for my family: my forbearing partner & our energetic, generous children. Sometimes you just can't keep your emotions in when you see them.

And I'm grateful you got to the end of this. I invite you to make your own. It's good.

The Earth tilted slightly on its axis

Sep 24, 2008
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This is startling. My past just rang me up at work. Just as I was thinking about writing something down about it.

I've been enjoying Loony's blog lately. Some lovely, personal stories beautifully told. Blogging has this weird self-sharing, reflective power, which I don't fully understand; that & Loony's stories had me thinking about my own (mis)adventures. Then the shoephone rings. "It's V here."

My head whirled. I laughed and laughed. A cascade of feelings flooded over me; great memories, words spoken & whispered, salt tears, joys, sensations of skin to skin. My first lover, my first love. I laughed with delight, and somehow kept a vaguely sensible conversation going.

Her name has been a talisman for me, for (I can't believe it) 30 years.

I'm still reeling. I've got to sit down and think this through better. More soon. & look what I wrote for Question of the Day...

The niche-est marketing I've seen in a while

Sep 23, 2008
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Just wrote a note to another Vox blog, Ubi Caritas, mentioning some classical choral

music. Moments later, back at the Gmail page, my very own, ultra-personalised ad:

Singing Zadok the Priest - www.note-perfect.com - Download and Learn the notes easily

for this great Coronation Anthem

Mr Google, that is good!! Handel would've been impressed.

(Now I'll leave the ad link in, & cause untold confusion back at the Googleplex.)

Where've I been

Aug 30, 2008
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Interesting experience. Haven't written a lot lately, with work taking up too much head-space, wintry illnesses, usual chronic procrastination... & I'm feeling a little cut off. I don't know how many readers I have, & I'm not fussed about that; but the effort/discipline/pleasure of writing stuff you want to, regularly... I've missed that.

Mad work, panic-making deadlines, difficult colleagues, they stifle you. I'm actually lucky at the moment. I've had some horror bosses, & nothing to complain of at the moment. but still getting stifled.

I haven't come across that in any of my reading about blogs & blogging. It just feels good to express yourself in your terms, on your terms. The teachers I'm involved with want engaged students, lively minds, articulate young people. Is there an answer here? Write on, & you'll find out.