From the Kitchen #99
How do we negotiate the path between sanity and insanity, between right and wrong, between good and not-good, between the empowering and the disempowering?
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April 6, 2011
From the Kitchen #98
I live in a well-to-do country and I live comfortably. A constant question for me is: how much am I willing to compromise and how much am I willing to give up for the benefit of the ‘environment’?
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March 30, 2011
From the Kitchen #97
Recently, Number-One Daughter took a photo of the spoodle prostrate in front of a Buddhist statue. Was he praying or merely enjoying the sun on his hairy body? Or, the thought just struck me, he may have been offering obeisance to the Sun.
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March 23, 2011
From the Kitchen #96
Walking along a bush path, it is almost impossible to tell the weeds from the ‘real’ Australian plants. Actually, ‘weeds’ is the wrong term – there are indigenous plants and exotic ones, the exotics having been brought here by non-indigenous people. The exotics seem to have settled in well and are thriving.
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March 16, 2011
From the Kitchen #95
It would be easy, in a weekly column, to comment on current or recent events. I am more interested in looking at what allows events to unfold as they do and to ask questions that help me better understand why what is happening is happening.
From the Kitchen
March 9, 2011
From the Kitchen #94
Millions of people are still suffering from the colonial and imperial activities of European governments from the fifteenth through to the twentieth century. Territories were seized and the people living there were subjugated, often with disastrous results for their cultures and livelihoods.
From the Kitchen
March 2, 2011
From the Kitchen #93
How far does our ‘community’ extend? In the past, it might have been limited to our village or, more recently, our suburb. This would be overlapped by our extended family and, for many working men, the crowd that gathered after work at the local pub. In the countryside it may have been a collection of farms and the Country Women’s Association and in Australia it would also have been indigenous tribes. Some of these communities still exist.
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February 23, 2011
From the Kitchen #92
Humans are illogical, which is contrary to what we tell ourselves and each other but consistent with our animal nature. We can reason and debate, make lists of arguments for and against something but, when we act, we seem to act at the behest of some other process.
From the Kitchen
February 16, 2011
From the Kitchen #91
Dear Madam,
I am writing to you as a penultimate resort as you are the CEO of New Concept Builders and you have the power to set things right. My last resort will be to take this matter to the media, but please don’t read this as a threat. I do not know if your General Manager (New Housing) has passed on to you any of my last twenty-eight letters, so I will recap.
From the Kitchen
February 9, 2011
From the Kitchen #90
Thank you for purchasing a Klastelle Baby-Bounce-and Play Center. We congratulate you on the wisdom of your choice and support your obvious commitment to ensuring your baby has the very best in environmental stimulation and constructive play activity.