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Humble pleasures
Had a customer come in earlier, have a great massage, then come out feeling relaxed, happy, and expansive. Over a cup of tea he told me how long he’s been looking for the right massage, and now found...
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Good things
I don’t know how to articulate this, though I’ve touched on it before. I look forward to the coming day when I will leave the shop to new owners, but there will be things I miss. I’ll miss the girls...
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Touche
I was out walking before with Rigby and my niece S. S loves to come on walks with me and Rigby. I reckon so far it’s been the highlight of her school holidays ranging far and wide with us. Anyway on...
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Changing times
Browsing randomly through LinkedIn yesterday I came across one of my contacts who I now saw was self-employed mowing lawns. I was surprised. Nearly 10 years ago he was my boss, the head of practice at...
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Intersections
I caught up with an old friend on Wednesday. Dave and I have been friends since way back in the nineties. He was always the slightly eccentric, lovely man, with strong convictions. We shared...
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Personal entropy
Lately I’ve found myself fascinated by the concept of entropy. Entropy is basically a law which states that things will naturally flow from a state of order to disorder. It applies to the universe as a...
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Farewell Big Mal
It’s the funeral of Malcolm Fraser today. He’s the first of our Prime Minister’s I really have a memory of. His ascension – the infamous November 11, 1975 – was my introduction into the world of...
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From the past
I don’t really feel like going into the David Copperfield sort of stuff, but some background is necessary for the story I’m about to tell. My mum died just over 3 years ago. A few weeks after her death...
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Happy endings
About a month ago, a couple of days after my birthday, I was driving into work when I heard about an accident on the Peninsula Link highway. A cyclist had been hit by a truck, and the air ambulance had...
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Different talkers
I’ve learned a lot about how people speak over the last 6 months. You’d think after umpteen years on the planet I’d have a fair idea of it, but when your job is listening day in and day out to people...
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Labour first
When I’m not busy working, which is less and less these days, I’m online browsing news sites, or finding recipes, or reading the plethora of excellent articles on a range of different subjects. Just...
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The bad with the good
It’s the end of the day and I’m writing a post. Mostly I seem to write early in the day, or just into the afternoon. Either it’s the product of whatever I’ve woken up with, or something random. It’s...
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Up, up and away
I attended my sister’s graduation ceremony last night. It was an unexpected event. She’d mentioned it to me last week, when I thought I was busy doing something else. When I found out late yesterday...
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The bad with the good
It’s the end of the day and I’m writing a post. Mostly I seem to write early in the day, or just into the afternoon. Either it’s the product of whatever I’ve woken up with, or something random. It’s...
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Keep pushing
As I was walking out the door for lunch yesterday one of my colleagues asked me what I was doing. I told her going to a bookshop. It was closing down and they were selling the books for $6 each. Oh,...
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Ripping the band-aid off
It was my nephew’s birthday last week, and on Saturday night we went out to dinner to celebrate it. We went to a pizza restaurant in Hawthorn. Everyone was there, including my dad. For those that don’t...
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Things I saw this morning
As I do every morning I caught the train to work. It was a wild and woolly morning after a wild and woolly night. The wind ripped along, and came in scattered gusts. As always the train was full by the...
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Death of a hero
Been a bad year for iconic deaths. Has to happen of course, everyone has their time, and right now I think is pretty much towards the end of a cultural cycle. I was sad Bowie died because he was a...
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26 years ago
A photo popped up in my news feed on Facebook on Thursday morning that stunned me when I saw it. It was a memory from 26 years ago, the day my mum got married for the second time, and it was my job to...
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