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Category: word power

Balance (#30 in “a shining moment” series)

 

For many birds, standing on one leg is entirely comfortable, even for extended periods.

When did you ever see any such bird lose its balance?

For Homo sapiens, it is another matter entirely.

However, our ability to stand on just one of our own two feet is very much more telling/predictive than most of us realise.

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“Paradise” (#15 in “a shining moment” series)

 

Many of us do not Believe.

A non-Believer, however, can still believe in the power of particular places here on terra firma – earthly “paradises” which inspire us, delight us, even heal us.

One uncanny song is named for a place that really did have the same name as the song which so vividly evoked it, and mourned its destruction: Paradise.

We have just lost its author.

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Word Power: planting trees, claiming credits…credible?

In Australia, the unpleasant truth – rarely admitted – is that in many instances, the answer to the headline’s question is “no”.

Carbon credits counted in government projections can, quite literally, go up in smoke and blow out the emissions side of the CO2 ledger.

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Word power: vital question for Bill Shorten

Our politicians and our mainstream media are equally to blame for Australia’s 2019 Federal Election campaign having become a seemingly-endless avalanche of inanity, predictability, pork-barreling, propaganda, evasion and irrelevance.

However, letter-writer Ian Bevan of Landsdale, WA, has at last voiced the burning question…

(as published in The West Australian on Friday May 3, and quoted in full, below)

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