April in North East Victoria. Photo credit – author’s own
Hey there patient readers (I guess the other kind have given up)!
I’m making a return after another lifestyle change. This one – a tree change – to North East Victoria to a town of 941 people (now 943).
“Why?” you ask.
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Jonathan Gottschal suggests that “story is the grease and glue of society” (in The Storytelling Animal). He says stories unite people – pulling them together to connect through common values and ideas. What’s your part in that?
Science may never come up with …
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Everyone has a story to tell. Would you tell yours? An app launched after a program of story telling facilitated by Dave Isay, has resulted in many stories being told and recorded. Listen to his story and enjoy the human experiences shared.
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Stories are important. They are a social mechanism for passing on knowledge, sharing folklore and culture, as well as a learning tool. Everyone has a story. What’s yours?
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Working overseas opens you up to change. You see new ways of doing things. You experience a new culture. You try a new language. For the time we are there, we call it home. That is, until we move to the next one. In this flexible lifestyle, what do we call home?
In this category I am going to feature stories about locals. These will be lives of people who are just like you and me, who I have encountered in the different locales I move in. Some initial stories will be inner Melbourne folk, others will be Mt Hotham villagers and others still will be random people I meet.
On arrival in Niseko, I received a photo challenge from my sister. So here it is – our first seven days in Japan, in black and white images. In the exercise, there were to be no people and no explanations. I have chosen to annotate them for this post.
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Our bags are packed
We’re ready to go …
Jason Sauer is an adaptive ski racer. As a double above-knee amputee, three factors have been instrumental in his rehabilitation success: sobriety, returning to sport and getting new legs.