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Welcome 2014 – Happy New Year!

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So this is 2014!

Just a few hours in and I am feeling so energized about how the year will go. Not sure why? Maybe it’s the long walk home from a New Year’s Eve Party when our cab didn’t show up or that I’m having a lazy New Year’s Day sitting on the couch watching music videos and reading blogs that I follow on my Reader.

I loved so many posts, but these two stood out

Teaching an old dog new tricks

– Reflections of a fellow traveller

Empty Garden the Tragic Death of John Lennon in Song

– Capturing a memorable moment in my life.

I worked on my Facebook Fan Page – maybe someone else will find it in 2014!

Found a fantastic prompt for posts 365 Writing Prompts. Wonder how many I will use this year?

So what’s in store for 2014?

Quite likely my last full year of working in Professional Services. I’m definitely up for the challenge!
Starting Honours in Finance, hopefully the first step to a future career in Academia.
More articles for The Adelaide Review.
Perhaps some success for my sporting teams – The Crows, Arsenal and Sturt.
Springsteen’s first visit to Adelaide – I never thought would happen!

I’m so looking forward to 2014.

Happy New Year!

Reflections of My Life

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I was listening to the 1969 Marmalades’ hit Reflections of my Life on Spotify.

It’s a forgotten classic by a band from Glasgow, however as I listened to it this time around, it was with quite different ears to those of the 12 year old who bought it in 1970 as a 45. I don’t think it was just being forty plus years older that gave the song a different feel.

It is a very melancholy song. For me, as with so many others, a couple of lines stood out,

The world is a bad place, a bad place
A terrible place to live, oh but I don’t wanna die.

Given the song was written at the height of the Vietnam War its anti-war sentiment is easy to understand as is the reference to the world as a bad and terrible place. This time around though, it was not the Vietnam War that I was thinking about when I listened to the song, but a photo I had seen on our recent trip. I could neither get the photograph or the lines out of my head.

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The photo is on display at the Topography of Terror in Berlin,

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Why do I Read & Write?

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Why do I read?

As a child I did not read much. I do not think it was encouraged, but then again I do not think it was discouraged either. Reading just did not seem important at home when compared to the other things in our lives such as playing sport. I regret that now.

Through school and University it was a chore. The fact I was a slow reader was a factor, more likely an excuse on reflection.

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