Years ago I was in Japan with a delegation from the Western Australian Goldfields. We had a mayoral reception at the Kagoshima City Hall. It was all very formal, gifts were exchanged and an interpreter did his best to convey the abundance of best wishes expressed by both sides.
Our delegation leader explained to the [...]
My son is twelve and there is a pimple in the middle of his chin. Yesterday morning he says to me, “Why do we have to have pimples, Dad? “ Then he adds, “Why do we have to have pubic hair, too, and all that stuff? I mean, what’s the point?”
“You’re asking the wrong [...]
Shortly after our first child was born, my ex-wife and I travelled north to show off the new baby to my parents. One night, we all sat around the TV to watch a comedy that often ended on a somewhat risqué note. I hoped that it would not be too blue and mentally prepared to [...]
“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.”Oscar Wilde
My parents have been married for 50 years and are getting on a bit; it doesn’t take much now to knock them down when some virus or other is going [...]
One semester, when Nick and I were 18, we left it too late to complete our course options and, once again, found ourselves picking through the leftover courses that no one else wanted. With one course still remaining we didn’t have much choice so we signed up for something called Existentialism in Literature. Now I [...]
“Parties shall respect the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.” Article 14 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Children
No, because Sunday school provides children with a moral compass.
They already have a couple of pretty good moral compasses; one is their conscience and the other is the example [...]
According to the Australian Newspaper’s John Armstrong, Kant believed that the fullest expression of humanity comes in three forms:
The appreciation of natural beauty;
The love of goodness; and
Freedom of the mind.
Strange how we so often express our humanity in exact opposition to these very notions as we tear down natural beauty; exercise badness on a [...]
There are two kinds of compulsive talkers. There are those that babble on without any real concern if you’re listening or not; the kind for whom the sound of their own voice is, by definition, conversation. These are the easy sort; the sort that go down smooth with a glass or two of red; the [...]
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