The View

Friday, 23 Sept 2022

Listening to the Master’s Voice
When our Kelpie was young, he was a skilled escape artist. He could clear fences with ease, allowing for excursions into neighbouring properties to visit the humans and animals who lived there. We repaired fences, added additional height to some fences, and generally made his escape more challenging. Every time...
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Friday, 16 Sept 2022

Memory Lane
We’ve all sat and listened to friends, family and elders regale nostalgic stories of long ago. I love a good story and have fond memories of sitting with my great-grandfather and hearing him tell me of what he got up to ‘when he was a boy’ growing up in the...
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Friday, 09 Sept 2022

Being the Uber Driver
Over the weekend, I drove my son home to get changed from school and back again for him to go to the teen program on Friday night. Then on Saturday, my wife woke up to take him to a teen church program. On Sunday, he had his Grand Final AFL...
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Friday, 02 Sept 2022

New Beginnings
There is something magical about a well-manicured, freshly cut lawn. For me, its neat uniformity brings about a sense of pride, achievement and satisfaction; or so I thought. You see, my wife is an avid gardener, a true ‘green thumb’, who thinks a beautiful, pristine lawn is called ‘grass’, and...
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Friday, 26 Aug 2022

Enthusiasm
I have a confession; I like climbing trees. Yes, I’m an adult. No, I don’t do it often. However, show me a sprawling fig or a conifer with a few good branches that are low enough to the ground for me to pull myself up on, and I would have...
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Friday, 19 Aug 2022

Decisions, Decisions…
Decisions can be hard to make and even harder when there is so much choice available. I reflect back on my own childhood and remember the times when decisions were either really easy or some of the hardest things I’ve ever had to contemplate.  Making decisions on our own is...
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Friday, 12 Aug 2022

Try, Try, Try Again
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Friday, 05 Aug 2022

The Why
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Friday, 29 July 2022

Integrity
Integrity is the state of being undivided; what we believe, say and do are consistent. People of integrity live into their values and are trustworthy and consistent. However, a scroll of social media may leave you wondering where integrity has gone. Everything seems much grander, much more perfect than they...
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