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“….I am suddenly the skinny boy I was splashing in the sandy shallows at the lake, tossing water by the handscoop at my sister sunning on the dock….” American poet John Caddy wrote the above after having seen a goldfinch bathing in a spray of splashing water. Triggered memories. Sunrise, sunset, sunrise, sunset. Swiftly flow [...]

Pudenda: the external genital organs. This is the anatomical medical definition of both the man’s penis/scrotum and the woman’s outer vaginal area. Any doctor will know this. What the good doctor might not be aware of is the etymological Latin root of pudenda which is to me, a reflection of the cause of a lot [...]

Our town planner has just quit in disgust because nearly every recommendation she has made to the local council on appropriate development has been overturned. Our state government is secretly and openly giving away land zoned “coastal conservation” or within national parks over to developers. Instead of adequately funding our public hospitals, they have just [...]

Some days there is little joy. I woke up this morning knowing that the only way through the next twenty four hours was to grit my teeth, take a deep breath and push myself out of bed with a steely determination to get the job done. It was not going to be easy as many [...]