Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth.

I just finished reading Murakami's "1Q84", a marathon read and excellent. Typically zany Murakami.  

I’m sick and tired of the time wasting triviality of Facebook. I’ve decided to take a break from using it, which is a dilemma in some ways because it’s the only way that I communicate with several of my friends. No doubt I will get back to it some time in the future, maybe next […]

Last night I began re-reading Robert Pirsig’s “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”. It must be at least 12 years since I last read this book, and it was one of the books that I decided to bring back from Australia with me because I want to find out how I relate to the […]

“He didn’t want a holiday’s brief deception of well-being”. Paul Theroux, The Family Arsenal  

Out in front of the stable the bearded drunk had quit dancing, and the hound dog was sitting under the water trough scratching fleas. The wagons rickety wheels made dust clouds that hung in the green air like powdered bronze. A bend in the road: Noon City was gone. Truman Capote, “Other Voices, Other Rooms” […]

I often find myself using the term “bye-bye” here especially with small children who are seemingly always encouraged by their mothers to “wave bye-bye at the strange looking foreigner”. So it was illuminating to read in a borrowed copy (thanks Dr. Laurie, you’re a champion mate!) of the Barry Humphries memoir “My Life as Me” […]

Having read and enjoyed “Defining Moments” by the same author last year I am looking forward to reading Badaracco’s latest offering, “Leading Quietly” which I borrowed from Griffith Uni library yesterday. I also re-borrowed “Defining Moments” as well as “Leadership and the Quest for Integrity”, a book that Badaracco co-authored with Richard Ellsworth that was […]