Jill
My blogs
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Facilitator |
| Location | Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
| Introduction | I was born in 1950, a product of the post war era. My father was a veteran of the Kokoda trail and I grew up listening to war stories and dealing with my father's post-traumatic stress from the war. I was one of five sisters, and a strange child who grew even stranger in adolescence into adulthood, never really fitting any mould. I developed a kind of pride in being "different" but now as old age encroaches, I see this identity as just another game of the ego. I guess to my parents we must seem to have led a lucky and trouble-free life compared to their lives which were marked by economic depression and war. But to me I seem to have had something of a disturbed life, not physically, but a disturbance of the soul, which has been with me since my earliest memories. The plus side of this disturbance is that I have been forced to reflect and think and seek out answers throughout my life. Hence this blog, which is my attempt to put my many musings on the line (I mean "on the line" as in risking ridicule, censure or other scary things, but also "on line" makes sense :)) for your response if you feel so inclined. |
| Interests | Spiritual life, philosophy, religions, art, music, education, yoga, meditation, mental and physical fitness, my grandchildren, the potential of each human being |
| Favorite movies | McCabe and Mrs Miller, all of Michael Moore's movies, Shine, Sarah's Key |
| Favorite music | Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Hayden, Bach, Mozart, traditional jazz, traditional Mississippi Blues, World Music |
| Favorite books | The Dhammapada by Buddha, Illuminations by Hildegard of Bingen, Intimacy and Solitude by Stephanie Dowrick, The Magdalene Legacy by Laurence Gardner, The Sun My Heart by Thich Nhat Hanh, the Buddha's Book of Daily Meditation by Christopher Titmuss, Liberating the Gospels by Bishop Spong, the Gospel According to Thomas, For the Love of God- Handbook for the Spirit by Carlson and Shield, Jesus the Man by Barbara Thierling, The Highland Clearances by John Prebble, Affluenza by Clive Hamilton, Hegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky, Freakonomics by Levitt and Dubner, A Brief History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson |