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Whether born out of our moral upbringings or imagined by our logical minds, the sense of fairness has a vast control over our attention spans. We constantly battle with how unfair life can be – as if fairness is a desired and attainable state. At our club racing, our handicapper has a difficult time grading…(Read More)
We are rapidly losing our alertness. And multi-tasking is to blame. Instead of having all our wits, we are becoming half-wits. Productivity and progress is defined by how much activity we can pack into a day. When I was in the building game, constructing a concrete wall was the perfect example of sequential…(Read More)
…And for that matter, just how important is anyone’s life? ANZAC day passes and we all give ourselves a holiday. War veterans and their families get to parade and celebrate the acts of war with mixed emotions. Yet for most war veterans, taking another person’s life (even in the sanctioned environment of war…(Read More)
Those who don’t know will talk about it, whilst those who do know can’t find the words to describe it… My wife says that I talk rubbish. And she is right! It is only when I am lost for words that I really know what I am on about. Like the morning when…(Read More)
Either in impatience or in the quest for achievement, we hunger about the need for speed. From fast food, fast cars, fast bikes, fast computers, fast women (or men), fast money to fast tempers and speed dating, more pace is everything nowadays. But why do we need to go fast? In this world of contradictions…(Read More)
Everything has a coat of paint on it. Life is so well hidden beneath the paintwork that the paint has become life….. The first pictures were painted. I think they were on the walls of caves. Painting was used to create images of life. Then painting became used for creation – as shown by…(Read More)
If you ever wondered what life is all about, then the best picture that can be painted is when your spouse turns over to their side of the bed and mumbles “I just don’t feel like it…” Life is only about feelings. That is all you will ever experience. Isn’t it funny that…(Read More)
I used to worry about my reputation… Until I discovered that it was not worth anything to me. Now, I just worry about how all this rain is ruining my bike riding routine. Reputations can be: Made and lost Good , bad or indifferent Fact or fiction Solid or slippery Tradeable (translates to “worth a…(Read More)
I was an observer at the later part of last Sunday’s racing and I had a great viewing spot at the back ‘hot dog’ turn. The main difference between the B grade bunch and the A grade bunch was the speed around the turn and the closeness to the limit they were pushing. The…(Read More)
“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.” – so wrote William Shakespeare. I was never one for poetry or literature in my school days, so the works of…(Read More)