A little of what you fancy

Hey my first post for the New Year.  Who said I would not achieve anything? This morning, the first day of January 2009 I played a new song on the accordion. Granted it was only the old sea shanty “what shall we do with the drunken sailor”, but it was an achievement none the less. [...]

Paradise with an Ocean View

On the cusp of the New Year I have been thinking of an old friend of mine from the 70’s. Affectionately known as Mark the Animal (not my other friend Animal). He would always say “each time I turn a new page to start again the blots always show through from the previous page.”
No New [...]

Holiday wishes

Afrikaans
Gesëende Kersfees

Afrikander
Een Plesierige Kerfees

African/ Eritrean/ Tigrinja
Rehus-Beal-Ledeats

Albanian
Gezur Krislinjden

Arabic:
Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah

Argentine:
Feliz Navidad

Armenian:
Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand

Azeri:
Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun

Bahasa Malaysia:
Selamat Hari Natal

Basque:
Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!

Bengali:
Shuvo Naba Barsha

Bohemian:
Vesele Vanoce

Brazilian:
Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo

Breton:
Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat

Bulgarian:
Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo

Catalan:
Bon Nadal i un Bon Any Nou!

Chile:
Feliz Navidad

Chinese: (Cantonese)
Gun Tso Sun Tan’Gung Haw [...]

Marx for today

“Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity.”
Karl Baby,

HMMM!
You know who you are.
You know what I mean.

Land of the rare go for the poor who dream of university

Andrew Trounson | December 10, 2008
Article from: The Australian

A WICKED problem is what policymakers call a messy social issue with multiple causes and answers that have little hope of pleasing everyone.
A particularly wicked one is about to land on federal Education Minister Julia Gillard’s desk.When the long-awaited Bradley review into the funding of higher education is released [...]

Tess’ Birthday

Big shout out to Tess who is celebrating her birthday today 18th December. I did the maths today and I an 30 years and one week older than her.
Forgive the fashion  in this picture, she does have a good sense of fashion, ….. no really….
Anyway Kid have a great birthday!
Leon

Wake Up

Wake Up!
by karlo mikhail

When the normal run of things is traumatically interrupted, the field is open for a ‘discursive’ ideological competition. In Germany in the late 1920s, Hitler won the competition to determine which narrative would explain the reasons for the crisis of the Weimar Republic and the way out of it… Consequently, to put it [...]

Congratulation

To friends and colleauges.
CONGRATULATIONS

HAPPINESS

 

HAPPINESS
I asked the professors who teach the meaning of life to tell me what is happiness.
And I went to famous executives who boss the work of thousands of men.
They all shook their heads and gave me a smile as though I was trying to fool with them
And then one Sunday afternoon I wandered out along [...]

Let the Church be the Church (from Inhabitatio Dei)

“Let the Church be the Church”. . .
Posted on November 21, 2008 by Halden

Its hard for me to overestimate the importance Stanley Hauerwas’s works to my theological development. He did two things for me especially, the first was making me take the church with absolute seriousness as the primary community in which Christian life is lived. The second [...]