I received bad news today. A woman whom I used to work with was found dead here in the UK after going missing. I don’t have the full story yet, but she was apparently suffering from depression. This news really threw me, as I have been feeling quite low and despondent the last few days. …
I love Blue Planet 2, some of the cinematography is simply amazing… But the powerful gut punch of a message at the end of each episode, simply must bring viewers to change their ways. [embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a8HGJid-Jo[/embedyt] This ep’s end point of the pilot whales really kills me :'( Totally and honestly – it always …
Leading up to the result of the Australian Marriage Equality vote I was so very apprehensive. This debate has been ugly. And it has been a tough and scarring free for all at times. Sure it’s easy to say ‘both sides’ behaved badly, but that is way too simplistic. Personally I feel this never should …
(An open letter I wrote to Tony Abbott, one of the most prominent ‘no’ campaigners against Marriage Equality in Australia) Although we don’t agree on much, I wanted to specifically talk to you about your decisive comments this week. You went on record to launch why you are voting no in the SSM plebiscite. Defending …
I remember my grandparents farm from when I was a little pre-teen. It was a modest little red brick house from what I can remember, in rural Australia. It even had a windmill and a couple of dams in various paddocks where you could catch Yabbies. Growing up we used to visit the farm …
Things started getting a little bit rougher, and then the big waves come. It is so hard when these waves start crashing down upon you to rise above it, to cling onto whatever you can to keep your head above water. But as my mind feels like it is sinking and being pounded by the …