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Imagine all the people
Thank God its them instead of you I was talking to a friend to relayed the impact of a moment when she was asking for help in an awkward situation and received a beauracratic response. She was left feeling unseen and frustrated. I was then watching a movie with a bit of action and violence in it and reflecting how much I had changed from the little boy who was traumatised by watching the wizard of oz. What is the connection you ask?
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Big boys don’t cry
Allowing myself to be here I was deeply challenged by a passing comment that Heather Bradbury made at a Poatina morning tea this week. She also wrote about it on her blog which you will find here. We have two very special people visiting Poatina this week. They are aboriginal artists from Uluru. Soon after they arrived they sat Heather down and asked her to tell them the story of Aboriginals in Tasmania. One of them asked Heather to get some tissues because it was a sad story and she was going to cry. When I first heard Heather say this, and talked about how sad it was to tell…





