Posted January 6
Every morning, I receive a tidbit from the latest in scientific discoveries. The fields include genetics, evolution, biochemistry, nanotechnology, quantum physics, cosmology. What fascinates me is the infinity of what can be learned and how the details contribute to our understanding of the whole.Th...
Posted December 24, 2020
Ronchi was the name of the house where I grew up.Mum had designed it to resemble the villas of Ronchi, a village on the Adriatic Coast where she and Dad had spent their honeymoon.It had a large central gallery which looked out onto a courtyard that faced into the sun.Dad built it.At Xmas across twel...
Posted November 22, 2020
I've been wanting to move for years. These 64 hilly acres in the subtropics may be exquisitely beautiful, but they are also weed paradise. The work of weeding has always been hard and unpleasant - dealing with poisons that inevitably get on the skin, the thorns and prickles, ant bites, the felling...
Posted June 6, 2020
My experience is zero in comparison to the realities for Aborigines.To understand the realities they must live with among their friends and relatives,please watch this podcast:https://soundcloud.com/byronwf/black-lives-matter-the-2020-thea-astley-address-delivered-by-professor-marcia-langtonFor the ...
Posted December 14, 2019
Unaware I have loved you a zillion ways, unaware, from infancy to aging days, unaware. You’re the life-force in a lover’s eyes while he spends his semen making babies, unaware. I see you in the Corella’s somersault. Your glee, in her screech as she p...