The musings of an Aussie viewing the World waist high .... from a wheelchair
Dear All, I’m sending this out on a personal note. In simple terms this email is a thank you. It is international Day of People with Disability. I refuse to deal with Christmas till after today every year! Regardless of how stage managed events around it need to become to raise the profile, IDPwD is [...]
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I’ve always wanted to be a writer. A good writer. Partly because I love words and the way they can move both writer and reader of all types. But partly if I’m honest ( the new me now) because when well done, it seems it can be portable. I want to write because I want [...]
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Yay Congrats to Tony for getting there too. At least he had the manners to warn his readers. The voice dictation software helped somewhat as did good ol’ pen and paper. I have promised to let people read at least extracts but I must clean it up first! Possibly [...]
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As I write this I’m listening to problogger interviewing Seth Godin on productivity and blogging. Is an interesting interview. The concept that is speaking out for me is talking as a solution to the writer’s block. He mentioned that the solution to his writers block is to write like you talk. Learn to [...]
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red coat moves, is she floating, its hard to see her legs rain, failing, not drifting but not heavy enough to hide away People, the other people, on legs drifting too and rushing back into her Possibly Related Posts: The email I wrote for international day last year Just writing Perhaps *part* of the [...]
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In light of this post from FWD– feminists with disabilities, I thought it would be good to update everybody on my continuing experience with Dragon Dictate for Mac, which I have been using sporadically since my birthday. By and large it’s great. I certainly use it for most of my blog posts, which is why they [...]
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I listened to George Orwell’s: Politics and the English Language as read to me by my computer. He may not like this blog much! However, we do agree on this: In our age there is no such thing as “keeping out of politics.” All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of [...]
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I had great plans for today. I had a bit of an enforced break last week and although I took my laptop, some new billing software and at least a half baked desire to do work I found myself needing to rest again and playing computer games and watch YouTube videos of programs I had [...]
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From Stephanie Dowrick’s new book “Seeking the Sacred: transforming our view of ourselves and one another”: The qualities needed to meet our most urgent social and environmental crises are the same as those we need in their communities and homes. They are the same as those we need to heal our personal suffering and lessen [...]
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