Today is the seventy fifth year of the bombing of Hiroshima. Many years ago I picked up a small book by John Hersey simply called Hiroshima. 108 pages long, it took me a month to read it such was the horror. Written in beautiful simplicity it shook me to the core , hence I took […]
When I was growing up in the west you always knew where you came from by smell. Crossing the Maribyong river, either leaving or returning to city or home, it was the stench of the tannery that curled your hair with horror. You had to hold your breath otherwise you might vomit your last meal […]
There is no one on this road but me. I was waiting for the bell to call us for meal time when I felt the presence of someone or something behind me. I swivelled around to meet an old lady stooped over , her face beautifully defined with age. ” Can you feel the sacredness […]
He was eighty years old and more. He loved a whiskey , Harry Potter , and ‘Dancing with the stars ‘. As a priest he was known as the patriarch of our valley. And he gave the best mass even if there was just one person in front of him. I lived at a place […]
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The retreat began the day after Christmas, it was cold and wet and the day before I had just pigged out on turkey, ham, potatoes, plum sauce, pudding and wine. This was how it was back then. Every Christmas you had to tell a story. Mine was of a time after my mother died. Lonely […]
I cannot say I loved my father . Anger and hate often choked my heart with rage yet I admired his will to live. His courage in adversity was awe-inspiring living with cancer day after day for years. And I know somewhere in the depths of my soul darkened by too many nights without stars […]
Classic movie , classic song
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