Veronika Wild

-Image Street Art by Luke Embden, Budapest   There’s just one more thing I want to mention about the Canberra trip because it’s worth emulating, no matter where you live. I was very surprised when almost as soon we'd heard that we were going to have to isolate, a cardboard container with three lattes, two hot chocolates and a stack of pink iced doughnuts inside appeared on the doorstep. This miracle repeated itself several times during the ensuing week. Sometimes there’d also be a basket of groceries, a big casserole or a pot of soup, all without anyone seeming to lift a finger. On Easter Saturday, when the children were supposed to have taken part in a street Easter Egg Hunt, the Easter Bunny had come right up to the house and left them all around their garden. Sometimes we saw the good fairies dropping things off and sometimes we didn’t, but I did notice that except for the coffee -bringer who turned out to be a close neighbour, they were all different people. Normally Canbe...

  -Image courtesy of Pixabay Dear Friends, Apologies for being a bit slow to post anything this week. We are about to have the election of a lifetime, possibly of all of our lifetimes. It will certainly determine Australia’s future and our fate as a nation along with the other species with which we share it, so forgive me if   I’m a bit distracted until after the 21. st   Meanwhile, I see that the Philippines are likewise in the process of having elections. So many young people are keen to have a Marcos family member back. This is really depressing, because it means that they don’t know their history. Nor is it the only country where   the art of forgetting has taken place. Other countries such as Hungary and Brazil also seem to have forgotten the many struggles for democracy their people have endured. In the USA, attempts are under way to reverse the right of women to decide if they will bear a child or not. This too is a step back into darkness and misery. H...