Over the last couple of years it has been challenging to find positive things on which we can be future-focused. The Covid-19 pandemic stripped away our ability to plan long term, the immediate focus rightly being on staying safe and at times isolating within our respective bubbles. While our safety is still a major [...]
Over the recent Easter weekend, I took the opportunity to fly interstate to see my family. As you no doubt saw and heard, the airports, and travel to and from them, were chaotic. People everywhere in crowded terminals, long queues for baggage check-in, delayed flights, stressed airline and security personnel. Australians on the move [...]
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are – Joseph Campbell Here we are entering March in the year of the Tiger. The festive season has come and gone, January and February have sped past like fast trains, and we are looking at another year of adjusting to our much-changed world. The last [...]
The final month of 2021 has arrived and the rush to year’s end is gathering pace. It is a time of heightened demands on our time this month as we attempt to finalise projects and tasks to ensure we start the new year with a clean slate, as we make arrangements for the festive [...]
Lockdown restrictions are easing in Sydney and Melbourne! For some of us living in these cities, we are poking our heads out of our front doors and stepping back into the wider world for the first time in over three months. And yes, it is freeing, intoxicating and joyous as we reconnect with family [...]
One of the most enjoyable things about the last 18 months has been the birdsong in my neighbourhood. The early bird calls to welcome the day as the sun rises over the park and the empty streets and laneways. The warning calls as they chase the sun to rest across the darkening skies at [...]
There are a number of words that sum up the human experience over 2020 and 2021. The one that stands out for me, particularly at present, is safe. More than ever we are called upon to keep ourselves, our families and communities, our work places and environments safe. Our world is changing faster than ever before. [...]
One film I occasionally watch when it pops up on television or a streaming service is Ground Hog Day. In the film, Bill Murray (Phil Connors in the movie) navigates being caught in a repetitive time loop of a day that goes wrong, a day where he could have made better choices, been a better person. [...]
One of the things I have been thinking about post-2020, and our first year of living with the Covid virus, is entitlement. The last year has seen many shifts in the global consciousness with many institutions, beliefs and assumptions being challenged for the ongoing misunderstanding and mistreatment of diverse and often disenfranchised communities. The [...]
2020 will go down in our individual histories as one in which we re-evaluated our lives - a year of considerable reflection and re-alignment on so many levels. The year started with catastrophic bushfires, environmental and natural destruction in Australia, and rolled into political upheaval in many countries and the global COVID pandemic. Change [...]
