What a paradox it is that I have had an ongoing sense of identity all my life. The “I-ness” I now experience seems little different to that which I experienced when I was younger. Yet I am substantially a different person from that Ted Scott that existed thirty or forty years ago I am older […]
It is all there, all the time, everywhere and everywhence. How overwhelming but how strange seen from the limited perspective of one man or woman’s eyes, or discerned by their senses; beyond our perception and our conception and therefore beyond normal belief. And so we break it down to that little bit we can physically […]
One of the more pleasurable things that have happened to me in recent times was to become the Chair of the Fitzroy Basin Association (FBA).FBA is one of Queenslands thirteen community based Natural Resource Management (NRM) Groups. As a result of this position I get to sit on the Board of the Queensland Regional NRM […]
However you might view it, it is quite apparent to me that I have had a very fortunate life. One of the reasons I would make such a statement is the number of marvellous people I can have called friends. One such person is Brian Turnbull. I first met Brian more than ten years ago […]
Some time ago, Greg Brown, who frequently comments astutely on my blogs as you may have noticed, sent me a few interesting quotes to ponder on. Let me share one with you. This particular one is from Steve Biller, Tutorial Fellow in experimental particle physics, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, England. “Particles, in fact, don’t […]
Normally, when I have written in this format, I have avoided taking extreme points of view, (although perhaps some of my readers might have thought otherwise!) Very seldom do I come across opinions that I feel I should automatically dismiss. Most times I can see some vestige of an argument from practically any viewpoint. Today, […]
What is a man’s life? A bubble on the stream, Raised by the splashing rain, which merrily Dances along the swiftly gliding wave, Full of apparent life, then suddenly Breaks and leaves no trace behind To show where it hath been…. A summer moth, Hovering, at night around the candle-flame, And finding first its transient […]
Reading gives me great pleasure. It both entertains and adds to my education. Not surprisingly, I relax most weekends by reading, interspersed with gardening, listening to music, cooking, and less frequently these days, fishing. This weekend going through the Review section of the Weekend Australian my attention was drawn inexorably to an article titled “The […]
“To die, to sleep –To sleep, perchance to dream, ay there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause there’s the respect That makes calamity of so long life.” Hamlet, William Shakespeare The above quote, which will be familiar […]
My father was fond of quoting the famous Scottish poet Robert (“Rabbie”) Burns. And his favourite quotation was this extract from his poem To a Louse. “O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us!” Indeed it would be a great gift to see ourselves as others see us, […]