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Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Be Deviant

    Hands up if you feel at odds with the world these days? I’ve been feeling decidedly odd these last couple of years. And while part of me knows this will probably always be the case, I was beginning to think there was something I was doing wrong. Something I had to fix in order to…

  • Rage of the Heart

    Rage of the Heart

      Hello. Did you miss me? I missed me. I think I’m nearly ready to do this thing again. Differently, though. Go Wild. Quietly. What does that even mean? Our worlds have become so small. At least in Melbourne, with the world’s longest lockdown on record. Our workplaces now reduced to two small screens, are…

  • Rearview

    Six(teen) months down And every morning As I drive into the sunrise – I see You. Rear view. I go from house to house And in between the cracks Of 1950’s bath tiles Like memory gathering mildew – It’s a glimpse of You. Too much of this And too little of that And no time…

  • Get Real

    The last domino has crash landed on the eve of 2015. It’s been such a mad rush to the finish line I’ve not had a chance to fill you in on the most important happenings this side of tomorrow. It’s time for a career change. And, by that, I’m not referring to my love affair…

  • Domino Effect – Part 2

    On 17 September, after a nine month struggle with brain cancer, my mother’s twin sister slipped away from us. In many ways, she was like a second mother to my siblings and me. It’s been difficult to put into words the profound and unexpected impact of her loss, considering a year ago we were celebrating the…

  • Domino Effect – Part 1

    A whole month just disappeared. The ‘Open’ sign has yellowed and the tumbleweeds are doing cartwheels in the wind. [Enter iconic movie track – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly]. …Waa wa waaaa… So much for “I’m back!” You’d be forgiven for wondering when I’ll take the rusted shingle down. Board up all the…

  • Domino Effect – Part 1

    A whole month just disappeared. The ‘Open’ sign has yellowed and the tumbleweeds are doing cartwheels in the wind. [Enter iconic movie track – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly]. …Waa wa waaaa… So much for “I’m back!” You’d be forgiven for wondering when I’ll take the rusted shingle down. Board up all the…

  • Flux

    When I told you I’d be Missing in Action a few weeks ago, I honestly had no idea it would be this long. It turns out, waking up at 6.00 in the morning and actually having to eat breakfast before 9.00 am is much harder than I thought. Not to mention the extreme challenge of learning…

  • Missing In Action

    Previously on Go Wild. Quietly, you may have caught casual mention of a new part time job. As I have now officially been caught and tagged, all that wild action is momentarily reserved for learning new behaviours. I’ve made it through my first four days of full time training and in ten hours time I’ll be killing…

  • The (Bitter) Pill

    Sometimes I wonder how the people who invented the pill imagined the future. Was there an upper class of childless retirees, sipping cocktails and smacking their still youthful lips together by the pool? Were children brought up in laboratories and rented to the highest bidder, or grown off shore in new world economies? Or maybe,…

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