Articles tagged ‘Meditations’.
The Age recently reported that a British doctor, suspended in the United Kingdom after reports that she tried to buy black widow spider and deathstalk...
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By Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky I’m not a Christian and I don’t believe in ‘God’. I’ve had little contact with organised religion. I know nothing...
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By Emille Zola The boat was drifting into a narrow branch of the river between two islands, deep in the shadow. Behind one of these islands, the voi...
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By Lady Wilde THERE was a woman in Connemara, the wife of a fisherman; as he had always good luck, she had plenty of fish at all times stored away in ...
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By Rosemary McKenry A 13-year-old girl, Ruby, puts up two ‘likes’ on her Facebook page. ‘The Hunger Games’ and ‘Kony 2012.’ Her friends do...
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Long, long ago there lived a rich man who had an only son. This boy had an enormous appetite and was particularly fond of pumpkins. His parents got al...
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By Kristen Krcmar*, 2011 Edited by Suellen Green You see that person over there? The one that’s standing up; the one blocking not only your view but...
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Fourteen newly-discovered letters by Voltaire have allowed an Oxford University team to shed light on his brief but important time in England. Two of ...
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By Jeremiah Ganicoche It had been a short, hectic day and I was glad it was over. There were some reports I had not gotten around to but that my manag...
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[....] We were eating lunch on a high rimrock, at the foot of which a turbulent river elbowed its way. We saw what we thought was a doe fording the to...
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The story of the shooting of Hing Kee and the lights that failed is a well known Queensland mystery. The following report comes from the former Deputy...
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Inniskeen Road: July Evening By Patrick Kavanagh The bicycles go by in twos and threes - There’s a dance in Billy Brennan’s barn to-night,...
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By Kristen Krcmar*, 2012 Edited by Suellen Green Oh Chuck how I love him so. I see him everywhere; he must be bi-sexual because I see him with guys to...
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Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for e...
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Photos and text by Cam Walker In January 2010, I moved to Castlemaine, in Central Victoria with my family. As someone with bioregionalist tendencies...
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By Sami Grover We need more trees in our cities. But our cities also need to become more like trees. It seems to me that the challenge of building com...
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“The morning of May 18, 1902, was one of the worst that ever dawned in Killarney. All through the day a fierce nor’-wester raged, and huge whi...
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Every July I watch eagerly a certain country graveyard that I pass in driving to and from my farm. It is time for a prairie birthday, and in one corne...
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Lionel Rolfe In his latest book, Gerald Nicosia has unlocked the dynamic of Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, and not a moment too soon. Nicosia, the aut...
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It’s CI’s birthday! Two. How would you live without us? Let us know! Congratulate us. Conditions of congratulating us: 1. No hate bloggers...
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By Jeremiah Ganicoche* You know when you’re facebook-stalking your ex and you find out that she’s married and your fucken world falls apart? Well,...
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A CERTAIN man was wont to tell his son, while thrashing him, that he would never come to any good. The boy grew tired of these rebukes, and ran away f...
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By Jeremiah Ganicoche It had been a short, hectic day and I was glad it was over. There were some reports I had not gotten around to but that my manag...
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By Jeremiah Ganicoche* How did it get like this? Tired of the way things are turning out? Do you think something is wrong but not sure what? Want to d...
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By Edgar Allan Poe TRUE! nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my se...
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By Jeremiah Ganicoche* I’ve never played Cluedo but if you were ever dealt my card that is what it would say. It’s a killer hand. They don’t tel...
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Episode 8, by Josie Emery The Tweet Files A month of writing, distilled from a Twitter diary. We tweet in 140 characters – including spaces and ...
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By Jeremiah Ganicoche* When I was 15, I saw my familiar spirit. My room was in a bungalow in the backyard and most nights around that age I would stay...
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Story is everything, everything is story Episode 7, by Josie Emery To read what follows. I offer Allen Ginsberg’s advice on such matters and paraphr...
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