If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Ezra's legs. Bellerive Bluff, Bellerive. November 2012.

Sunday Stealing: Have You’s and What If’s!

1. Have you anything to confess today?

Not really. Perhaps I could admit to doing the vast bulk of my Christmas shopping online.

2. Have you ever broken a law? If so, what was it?

Well, I expect that most people do more than they care to admit, be it in relation to road rules, use of varied substances, copyright infringement, unregulated gambling, taxation or some form of sexual practices. I'm surprisingly law-abiding myself.

3. Have you ever committed an act of betrayal against a friend or family member?

Betrayal. That’s a bit dramatic. I don’t think so. I always try to conduct myself openly and honestly, so if they’ve ever felt ‘betrayed’ that would more be about them than I.

4. Has someone else done something that, to this day, makes you cringe when you think about them committing the act?

This happens all the time. I find a lot of the time I’m scratching my head wondering why on Earth people have decided to pursue one particular course of action or other.

5. Have you ever found yourself sexually aroused by someone that you absolutely should not have been?

Of course I have. I am merely a man, don’t forget!

6. Have you ever cheated at school? How so?

The only time I ever really cheated in my school years was in not being honest with myself, or not making an honest effort. In effect, I think that I wasted a few years cheating myself.

7. What if you came across a backpack stuffed with one hundred thousand dollars. Would you keep it?

I would be mightily tempted. That said, if we’re talking that amount of money just laying around, the wisest course of action would be to take it to the authorities.

8. If you were the most powerful person in the world, how would you use that power?

I do believe that I would try and get people to work together a little better and embrace the concept of “justice as fairness” in terms of resolving problems.

9. What if you found a magic lamp?

I’d start rubbing straight away!

10. If you could change one thing about the world, what would that one thing be?

I’d make sure that people had a greater capacity for honest reflection.

11. If you could take one thing back, what would that one thing be?

I’d alter a moment of indecision with a moment of decisiveness.

12. What if you were stuck on an island forever but had all the water, food and shelter you needed. What would you do?

Make myself comfortable.

13. What if the Internet didn't exist?

I’d feel intellectually constrained.

14. What if you never started blogging?

Life would have gone on.

15. What are your November 22 Thanksgiving plans?

I met with the auditor that day...

Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it...

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...

There was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong.

Here is a self portrait. I’m calling it Portrait of a lady in a dirty window . Shocking, isn’t it? However, it is apt! Samhain , Nos Galan Gaeaf , Hop-tu-Naa , All Saints , All Hallows , Hallowmas , Hallowe'en or HALLOWEEN . It’s Theme Thursday and we’re talking about the festivals traditionally held at the end of the harvest season. Huh? No wonder Australians have trouble with the concept of HALLOWEEN. For the record, in my thirty-two L O N G years on the planet, I can’t say I’ve ever seen ghosts ‘n goblins, trick ‘n treaters or Michael Myers stalking Tasmania’s streets at the end of October. [That said, I did once see a woman as pale as a ghost turning tricks that looked like Michael Myers in late November one time.] Despite the best efforts of Hollywood, sitcoms, and innumerable companies; it seems Australians are impervious to the [ahem] charms of a corporatized variant of a celebration of the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darke...

In dreams begin responsibilities.

A life at sea, that's for me, only I just don't have the BREAD. That's right, Theme Thursday yet again and I post a photo of a yacht dicking about in Bass Strait just off Wynyard. The problem is, I am yet again stuck at work, slogging away, because I knead need the dough . My understanding is that it is the dough that makes the BREAD. And it is the BREAD that buys the yacht. On my salary though, I will be lucky to have enough dough or BREAD for a half dozen dinner rolls. Happy Theme Thursday people, sorry for the rush.

This will hurt me...

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