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THE WEEKEND5 hours

Weekend-engagement 68 wrap-up: Your phone photos

Weekend-engagement 68 wrap-up: Your phone photos Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. Aaron Siskind I wanted to

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THE WEEKEND20 hours

Sunday mission

Sunday mission Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Over the last couple of weeks my mission has been to have no mission. I've been happy to float along doing

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Cinnamon Cup Coffeea day

Coffee and coffee shop moments: A posting contest

Coffee and coffee shop moments: A posting contest One hundred and fifty hive in prizes Contest ends 1 October 2021 - World Coffee Day In conjunction with the Cinnamon cup coffee community I'm running a posting contest around the theme of coffee, cafés

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Freewriters2 days

Forever never

Forever never If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. George Orwell I'll love you forever. I believed it. She'd said the words with such conviction and as they poured out

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OCD2 days

The selfie

The selfie I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King, Jr. Each week over the last sixty eight weeks I've run a little engagement

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THE WEEKEND3 days

Weekend-engagement week 68: Phone photos or make a meme

Weekend-engagement week 68: Phone photos or make a meme There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. Ansel Adams This week I wanted to roll out something super-easy that everyone can get involved with. There's not much to it

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Haveyoubeenhere4 days

Rymill Park opportunity

Rymill Park opportunity Don’t wait for the right opportunity: Create it. George Bernard Shaw I woke up to a really lovely message this morning; I smiled and felt pretty grateful to the person who sent it, also humbled that a

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Self Improvement4 days

Think like a Viking: Part seventeen

Think like a Viking: Part seventeen Wake early if you want another man's life or land. No lamb for the lazy wolf. No battle is won in bed. Reading the Norse Sagas and Edda's around the fire in my long hall whilst sipping mead from a horn-cup

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OCD5 days

Pebble tossing

Pebble tossing I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it. Denzel Washington Hi folks it's me, the G-dog, and I'm here to confess that...Well, I threw some pebbles in the pond. I know; I

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Rant, Complain, Talk5 days

Smallest of things

Smallest of things There's been times when I've been dragged into drama-filled situations, events and conversations and, I have to say, I don't like it. I'm rather bad in those situations and I tend to become apathetic quite

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OCD6 days

Forward motion and new horizons

Forward motion and new horizons A good leader does not get bogged down in the minutia of a tactical problem at the expense of strategic success. Jocko Willink Hands up if you're a leader. [G-dog raises his hand confidently.] It's who

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The Pew: Guns & more6 days

Live action: Laying down on the job

Live action: Laying down on the job Never get in the way of an Eastern Brown snake and his female target when he's looking for hanky panky after a long winter hibernation. galenkp I've been making a habit of beginning most of my posts with

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Haveyoubeenhere7 days

Adelaide Botanic Garden: Heirloom-seed mission

Adelaide Botanic Garden: Heirloom-seed mission Today wasn't going to be so good from a weather perspective; cool, only fourteen degrees with showers sweeping across the city and some intermittent blue skies. That forecast didn't fill me with enthusiasm

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THE WEEKEND7 days

Weekend-engagement 67 wrap up: Important thoughts

Weekend-engagement 67 wrap up: Important thoughts Over the years there's been many things I've held as important and, whilst some have come and gone, many endure. I'm also open to new things be it material items, concepts, thoughts and attitudes but I

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THE WEEKEND8 days

Bountiful harvest

Bountiful harvest Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson I'm going to confess that my harvest was somewhat less than bountiful, however a harvest it was, and

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The Pew: Guns & more9 days

Perception: You idiot

Perception: You idiot Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or

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australia10 days

Snakey bastard

Snakey bastard The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up. D. H. Lawrence I'm a reasonably outdoorsy fellow and spend a lot of my time away from built

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THE WEEKEND10 days

Weekend-engagement week 67: The important week

Weekend-engagement week 67: The important week For a few minutes I tried to empty my mind entirely, to concentrate solely on breathing: sometimes it’s useful to rediscover simpler pleasures of life. Romain Gary There's many things I hold as important

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Cinnamon Cup Coffee11 days

The treat

The treat A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. Aesop A crust; I'll be honest and say that my treat was a little more substantial than that but I really liked that quote and so I ran

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OCD11 days

Think like a Viking: Part sixteen

Think like a Viking: Part sixteen It is fortunate to be favored with praise and popularity. It is dire luck to be dependent on the feelings of your fellow man. Reading the Norse Sagas and Edda's around the fire in my long hall whilst sipping

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