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Author Archives: rpsimson1936
The Great Ecologists
White Australians have tended to think of our First Nation peoples as intellectually inferior, and culturally backward. Well yes, they didn’t have written languages but nor did many tribes in Africa New Guinea and the Pacific when white men arrived … Continue reading
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Dreaming with Dementia
Dreaming with Dementia This week I listened to an ABC podcast from All In The Mind that dealt with sleep disorders and sleep depredation and I began wonder if my wife who is in a nursing home with advanced dementia … Continue reading
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Australia Day date
It would seem that some of the heat could be taken out of the Australia Day date debate by suggesting a definitive alternative that has positive connotations for both the indigenous peoples and those humans who arrival of settlers … Continue reading
Am I the Universe?
Today I ask myself am I my universe, am I all that is? I know this sounds absurd, but everything that is happening to me makes me feel this way. There are all the coincidences in my favour, all the … Continue reading
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The Isolated Tree
Early morning on 4 Jan 2018 I listened to a podcast about the soul and sound of trees. It was an interview of the ABC’ Richard Fidler with bio-scientist, David George Haskell, who has written about his investigations into … Continue reading
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Rainy Nights
As a young boy during WWII I slept on a veranda room under the galvanised iron roof of my grandparent’s home in Hawthorne. When it rained, the sound of the drumming of raindrops on the roof would waken me up … Continue reading
Cancer Pain
It is three months since a bone scan showed I have serious bone cancer — the pelvic bones, the right and left femur, the shoulders, the ribs and down the spine. Devastating! The medical oncologist tried me on a new … Continue reading
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Tagged Bone cancer, Cancer, hormone therapy, Life, pain cycle, prostatectomy
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Eating Nectarines as a child
The sweet smell of ripening fruit, the first taste, tangy on the tongue, the joy of the second bite the juice running down my chin. Each mouthful delicious, delectable, an early summer pleasure, Crop it down to the seed … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, Education, Garden of Eden, Memory, mind, Spirituality
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Thoughts on Departing Life
What do you do when your Oncologist explains you have incurable bone cancer, not just in one location but in bones throughout the body, and in the lymph nodes as well? At 81, why should you cry? I’ve had … Continue reading
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