Behind My Lens

My Journal

This is where my Blog is. It is where I muse about life in general and the things that grab my attention. For my Photographic collections just click here

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“Read, read, read. Read everything – trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”
–William Faulkner

“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
–Franz Kafka

“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
–Albert Camus


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Fire & Ice

I had a really nice time yesterday listening to The MAD orchestra and The MAD Strings perform their Fire and Ice concert. It was wonderful to again hear orchestral music fill St Andrew’s Hall and equally wonderful to see the Hall filled with a very enthusiastic and appreciative audience.

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Human Connections

With Covid related restriction easing and people now being able to travel more I have been thinking about how we connect with each other.

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Social Infrastructure

There has been an interesting debate that has been bubbling along for a while now and it’s been about the vary affordability of living in the bush.

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Kid Stakes

For those of you who follow me on Facebook will know, because I flooded you all with photographs, that I have been directing a MMuDS production of Kid Stakes

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Religion and the Rights of Others

For the LGBTQI+ Community and especially the younger members of that community the appalling actions of the Federal Government in Canberra this last week must have been distressing as if we had gone back to the bad days

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