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Juggler or Clown? Are you too busy to be taken seriously? – Hegemony Heights
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A great place to live. Are you too busy to be taken seriously? Monday, 15 September 2014. Originally published in Bahrain this Week 14 September 2014. I realized the cost and decided it was too high; I wasn’t a juggler I was a clown. Even though I was young, in my 20s and full of energy, weekends were just spent recovering from exhaustion to prepare myself to do it all again next week. Relationships and personal pursuits suffered, so at 28, I decided to focus. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window).
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Magnanimous musical moments 1: Billy Joel – Hegemony Heights
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A great place to live. Magnanimous musical moments 1: Billy Joel. Saturday, 13 July 2013. Sunday, 14 July 2013. When it comes to enjoying music, there’s nothing like being in the audience watching one of your favourite artists perform live. Some of the most viscerally and physiologically pleasurable moments of my life. Have been in the company of sound, emotion and atmosphere circulating about my body via the acoustics, sublime or otherwise, of live venues. And it all goes pear-shaped. And awkward? The p...
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Magnanimous musical moments 2: “Holy shitballs, mom!” – Hegemony Heights
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A great place to live. Magnanimous musical moments 2: “Holy shitballs, mom! Friday, 3 January 2014. Friday, 3 January 2014. It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me, and I’m feeling …. good! Following the loveliness of Billy Joel’s magnanimous moment. In 2013, let’s head to number two, which fulfils all the criteria – which, if you’ve forgotten, are:. The fan, who couldn’t be happier either that night, for a week, a month or maybe the rest of his or her life;. And who are we talking about?
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War – Hegemony Heights
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A great place to live. Australian conversations: Remembrance and remembering. Thursday, 13 November 2014. Wednesday, 3 December 2014. 8220;I’m sorry we keep walking past in front of you,” I say to the old woman sharing the ward, while standing outside the bathroom door right alongside her bed, “but my grandmother takes tablets that make her wee – she’s 98 and doesn’t mean to be rude.”. I lost three brothers in the war, you know. One was killed by the Americans. He was on a Japanese POW ship but t...And t...
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Remembrance Day – Hegemony Heights
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A great place to live. Australian conversations: Remembrance and remembering. Thursday, 13 November 2014. Wednesday, 3 December 2014. 8220;I’m sorry we keep walking past in front of you,” I say to the old woman sharing the ward, while standing outside the bathroom door right alongside her bed, “but my grandmother takes tablets that make her wee – she’s 98 and doesn’t mean to be rude.”. I lost three brothers in the war, you know. One was killed by the Americans. He was on a Japanese POW ship but t...And t...
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Feeling Good – Hegemony Heights
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A great place to live. Magnanimous musical moments 2: “Holy shitballs, mom! Friday, 3 January 2014. Friday, 3 January 2014. It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me, and I’m feeling …. good! Following the loveliness of Billy Joel’s magnanimous moment. In 2013, let’s head to number two, which fulfils all the criteria – which, if you’ve forgotten, are:. The fan, who couldn’t be happier either that night, for a week, a month or maybe the rest of his or her life;. And who are we talking about?
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Hegemony Heights – Page 2 – A great place to live
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A great place to live. Australian conversations: Toning it down a bit. Monday, 28 December 2015. Monday, 28 December 2015. I was looking for some gift boxes to use for Christmas gifts, and went into one of the chain gift shops at the shopping centre. The man behind the counter was in his twenties, with a softly handsome face accentuated by some very light powder and a hint of eye makeup. I’d never seen him before in my life. JB: Do you have any more gift boxes? Man: Do you get on with them? So I said,.
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Australian conversations: Two old salts and lunch – Hegemony Heights
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A great place to live. Australian conversations: Two old salts and lunch. Wednesday, 3 December 2014. Wednesday, 3 December 2014. I was walking the dog along the stretch of beach where old local blokes launch and drag in their trusty little tinnies and tubs after an early morning fish in the bay. Two said blokes were pulling in the tub as I walked past them along the water’s edge. JB: “You catch anything? Salt 1, smiling: “Enough for lunch.”. JB: “What do you get – herring or whiting? And I continued on.
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Popular Culture – Hegemony Heights
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A great place to live. Australian conversations: The morning after. Thursday, 24 March 2016. Saturday, 26 March 2016. This conversation doesn’t have a lot of words – some just don’t need them to tell a story. It’s Saturday morning and I’m waiting for the train into the city. A train. The security guard in the office on my side of the platform can now see what’s happening so he comes out and yells across the platform, “Are you okay? The security guard is concerned – concerned in the way you want a s...
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Australian conversations: Remembrance and remembering – Hegemony Heights
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A great place to live. Australian conversations: Remembrance and remembering. Thursday, 13 November 2014. Wednesday, 3 December 2014. 8220;I’m sorry we keep walking past in front of you,” I say to the old woman sharing the ward, while standing outside the bathroom door right alongside her bed, “but my grandmother takes tablets that make her wee – she’s 98 and doesn’t mean to be rude.”. I lost three brothers in the war, you know. One was killed by the Americans. He was on a Japanese POW ship but t...And t...
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