Takes one to know one … right?

concerns re domestic violence escalating.

It’s just strange that people disagree so much about this.

I used to see a lot when I was a child and even though I’m in the garden a lot, they are not.

Thoughts consume most of our lives and they don’t even exist.

Modern society has taken to mobile technology at an astonishing rate. Most of us are plugged in, connected, friended or have followers; but is our immersion in the online world and our obsession with the next gadget adversely affecting our engagement with, and enjoyment of, the real one?

When I heard the recent statistics on this it really just took my breath away and illustrates how far women have to go to be empowered and valued.

This cult film is loved by so many, and yet there are many overlooked ideas in the movie. Did Cameron really make things better with his dad? What’s the deal with Ferris, anyway? He’s so sure of himself, and his parents love him and he can do whatever he wants, and he knows it! Cameron is the real MVP. Recognition is needed.

What we should be doing for our future is important.

Dogs have been
important members of human communities for centuries. Some communities eat them and others are repulsed by this. I wonder how they are differ from other domestic animals.

The horrors of war are making the planet unliveable. Every decent human being wants it to end.

I have a mental illness in a regional city. I had an episode of anger which I understand is due to acute anxiety, at my daughter’s school. Three years on, people still cower, there is gossip about me, that is of the effect that I am going to coffee shops to ‘meet’ and ‘pickup’ men, and that I am most interested in meeting married men. I am told I have to just move around and amongst the society, (by my psychologist) but I find it safer and apparently I am becoming more reclusive, to remain at home. I don’t condone aggressive behaviour. The school and my workplace, were trying to ‘support’ me, by having psychologists at the school, monitor my behaviour and have people behave ‘accordingly’. I began to feel I was living ‘The Truman Show’, and realise none of my interactions were authentic. Initially those people were being ‘kind’ but misguided, in supporting me, and I guess, my daughter. I have 3 years until she leaves school. I will go ‘somewhere else’. Michael Kirby has spoken of the chaplaincy program being a ‘front’ to filter through students of need/risk. I plod on. This stigma came into my new workplace. I plod on. Btw: this is not my paranoia. Underneath, I find it deeply alienating and distressing.

New parent myself – but more importantly in light of the Syrian refugees placing their children in scary waters in the hope of providing their children a better life in Europe.