Sunny, hot A slight dampness hovering after rain Bats chattering on the breeze Cicadas zinging as the storm water drain roars Paperbarks peeling As pine needles crunch underfoot A lone white heron navigates the silt Carefully As tadpoles flit through the reeds Turtle periscopes dot the lake’s surface As fat eels [...]
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The pursuit of wholeness: Hugh Mackay on The Good Life (my review here) This Q & A was first published online by Bookseller+Publisher In The Good Life, social researcher and novelist Hugh Mackay asks the big question: what makes life worth living? Paula Grunseit spoke to the author. In The Good Life you discuss the [...]
This is not a book about ‘how to feel good, how to find happiness or how to reap some reward for your goodness’. Hugh Mackay’s message is that while those things may well be by-products of living ‘the good life’, if you try to chase them, you will have missed the point of the journey. [...]
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