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On the ninth day of spring, just yesterday, I attended the first footy game in a big stadium in Australia-at York Park in Launceston. I had lived in Australia for 36 years and two months--nearly 60 per cent of my life by then; I had watched parts of several games on small ovals across Australia and, of course, seen dozens of parts of games on TV. But I don’t think I had ever watched an entire game.

I was married to a big football fan and having a son and two step-daughters who ...

Chopin(1810-1849) composed in obedience to inner promptings, dictated by his own musical instincts, tastes, feelings and predispositions. His first composition was in 1817, the year of the birth of the Founder of the Baha’i Faith. Chopin infused new ideas into known forms. The Ballade, for example, which had formerly been a vocalized poem, he cast into an instrumental mold. This afternoon, February 15th 2006, I have been listening to Chopin’s Ballade in G Minor Op. 23. Its opening phrase creates ...

Memory is life. It is always carried by groups of living people and, therefore, it is in permanent evolution. It is subject to the dialectics of remembering and forgetting, unaware of its successive definitions, open to all kinds of use and manipulation. History is always the incomplete and problematic reconstruction of what is no longer there. Memory always belongs to our time and forms a lived bond with the eternal present; history is a representation of the past. -Pierre Nora, 1984--in The ...

Thinking about all the groups, clubs and associations I've belonged to since those first baseball and hockey teams I was a member of from 1954 to 1962, I could list the following in the next 50 years of my life(1962-2012) as follows:

CLUBS, ASSOCIATIONS AND FORMAL GROUPS:

* Member of a singing group in George Town, Tasmania, 2001-2005.

* Public Speaking Assessor, Rostrum, Katherine, NT, Australia : 1984/6

* Member of the Lions Club, Zeehan Tasmania ...

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision approachable by no other means. -F.R. Leavis, New Bearings in English Poetry.

If your everyday life seems poor to you, do not accuse it; accuse yourself; tell yourself you are not poet enough to summon up its riches, since for the creator there is no poverty and no poor or unimportant place. You carry beauty with you or you don't. -Ron Price with thanks to R.M. Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet, 17 February ...