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Musings

Another lesson

January 20, 2004

Once again I have found reason to smile at the appropriateness of the naming of this blog journal, “Life on the Edge”. From all that surrounds me, analogies can be drawn to guide, inspire and instruct. With enough time, I might gain a modicum of wisdom from the many small lessons thrown up here at [...]

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Staying true

December 10, 2003

I stood at the top of the path to the beach this morning and reflected on how damn difficult it is to stay on one’s “path”, let alone find it. It seems that no matter how, when or where one starts, or is, along their life journey, someone, whether friend, family or foe, will be [...]

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Stone riddle

October 9, 2003

What is it about stones? Charles Simic tries an answer with this poem: The Stone Go inside a stone That would be my way Let somebody else become a dove Or gnash with a tiger’s tooth. I am happy to be a stone. From the outside the stone is a riddle: No one knows how [...]

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Sacred toast

May 30, 2003

If one were to define ritual as: “a repetitive act carried out with awareness, loving attention to detail and a touch of ceremony,” my life could be said to have acquired several rituals. Seemingly non-religious, these common, daily secular acts are so full of devotional habit that they are elevated to a sacred status. Most [...]

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Still Another Day

May 9, 2003

VI Pardon me, if when I want to tell the story of my life it’s the land I talk about. This is the land. It grows in your blood and you grow. If it dies in your blood you die out. XV We, the mortals, touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, [...]

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Stewardship

March 12, 2003

I sit sipping a late morning coffee. Looking out through the shading trees, the blue of sky and sea mingle. I have read a couple of pages of Pete Hay‘s book ‘Vandiemonian Essays’ and am pondering the question he poses (first asked of him by Barry Lopez) of whether or not Tasmania is the custodian [...]

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