I still have the robot on the job. Here you can see the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery . And here is a poem: Soliloquy for One Dead Bruce Dawe Ah, no, Joe, you never knew the whole of it, the whistling which is only the wind in the chimney's smoking belly, the footsteps on the muddy path that are always somebody else's. I think of your limbs down there, softly becoming mineral, the life of grasses, and the old love of you thrusts the tears up into my eyes, with the family aware and looking everywhere else. Sometimes when summer is over the land, when the heat quickens the deaf timbers, and birds are thick in the plumbs again, my heart sickens, Joe, calling for the water of your voice and the gone agony of your nearness. I try hard to forget, saying: If God wills, it must be so, because of His goodness, because- but the grasshopper memory leaps in the long thicket, knowing no ease. Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it... I like Bruce Dawe. He just my be my favourite Austral...
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Hope you had a good Sunday.
Last news was 108 dead and still rising! Unbelievable! And more fires still causing concern.
After so many years of drought the whole state is a tinderbox.
The radio is full of people calling in to ask about people they are concerned about and haven't heard from...it is so sad!
Give Henry and Ezra a HUGE hug from me...and love to lovely Jen!
If he's not careful, some wiseguy might put a hit on him...
The Australian bushfires are causing too much harm these days. I wish it is over soon without more damage than already caused.
You are right in saying that it is because of humans not appreciating the nature.
In India, in Jammu and Kashmir, we have been facing freakishly-untimed snowfalls during Feb-March for the past five-six years. The resulting damage hurts more because of of indiscriminate deforestation.
It took sometime for people to realise the worth of a lush-green forests in comparison to naked hill-slopes, where mud and rocks go screaming down the slope at the first instance of disturbance.
The human loss in Australia because of the bushfires is unfortunate, though.
I hope we learn to be more responsible towards our environment.
You do hope that from these kinds of events people come out the other side having learned a thing or two.