I’ve always been afraid of two things – bodies of water (in which I cannot see the bottom) and heights. At 7, I was stung by a jellyfish while swimming. That same year, I fell off a rock face and into a crevice of fresh lava rock, gouging and slicing my flesh as I [...]
Australia has been awesome. Here’s a quick recap of things I did/accomplished in one month.
visited a tiny town called Marble Bar to take pictures with ‘feral’ 5 year olds (lots of these kids seem to be missing on any oversight running around barefoot and unattended most of the day – ‘feral’ was an affectionate term [...]
I once had a mentor tell me that when working to empower people, all you can really do is ‘hold the crown out in front of them’ – it’s up to them to step up into that crown and claim it.
On my first day of teaching classes at Newman Senior High School, I came across an educators’ handbook for working with Aboriginal and indigenous communities.
Shakthi and I departed Newman and drove for about 3.5 hours to Marble Bar – which is the hottest town on the planet (it never went below 100 degrees for 160 days in the summer of 1923-24). It’s not too hot now. On the way, we stopped in Nullagine to [...]
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