Friday, January 24, 2020

Forget Port Botany for cruise ships, even the Red Cross supports Garden Island

“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope, running down it’s hallways, touching the walls on both sides.” 


“Butterfly land on a human just once in life; if you miss that oppurtunity, you have no another chance. Because that butterfly will be dead the next day.”
― 
Anton Chekhov




Forget Port Botany for cruise ships, even the Red Cross supports Garden Island

Botany Bay doesn’t make the best of statements for passengers arriving in Sydney. Never has done, it seems, if we cast our minds back to 1788.


OUT: BLACK SWAN. IN: SWAN WITH A REALLY BAD COUGH. China virus outbreak may wallop economy, financial markets.

Reality Is The Better Writer’: Why Gabriel García Márquez’s Journalism Is Even More Important Than His Fiction


“In fact, while his novels and stories may have won him global renown, journalism was his first calling. Not only was it foundational to his development as a writer, but it also remained integral to his work and public persona throughout his life, from his early days as a cub reporter in Colombia until his death in Mexico in 2014.” – The Nation





Idea Factory: What Makes Malcolm Gladwell Tick



“When I suggest to Gladwell he has an unusually relaxed attitude towards criticism, he returns to a theme from the night before: success is wasted on the successful. ‘The weird thing about people who become successful is that they don’t understand that they now have the freedom to let their guard down: you know – it’s fine’.” – New Statesman 

'It's not me': Executive in government cash splash report stays anonymous




“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope, running down it’s hallways, touching the walls on both sides.” - Barbara Kingsolver, Novelist, Essayist and Poet

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