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Edition 509 – Changing Lanes

I commenced a Creative Writing course last week, in Bronte, one of Sydney’s Eastern beach suburbs. It was my friend Greg Chambers, in Omaha, Nebraska, that mentioned it almost as a throw-away in one of our exchanges. He’d done something similar in his part of the world, and enjoyed the experience. I was intrigued. Perhaps I should find out more?

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Edition 504 – Pot Plants

Summer has hit with a vengeance, even towards late Spring. We’ve had multiple days over 30 degrees already – including some in the mid-thirties. The ground is drying out fast. You can see the grass turn from green to brown, almost before your eyes.

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Edition 502 – Chores

I’ve wondered for a while, now, whether there is a co-relation between families who required their younger children to perform chores throughout their childhood, to those children becoming adult children and being prepared to take on roles and tasks inside of a family business, that they might not like to do, but which they understand helps to push the business forward.

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Edition 500 – Almost a Decade

Woohoo! 500 editions. That’s a pretty phenomenal effort in my books, even if I say so myself. For almost a decade, I’ve been putting these newsletters out each week, save for our traditional (at least in Australia) two week Christmas shutdown, each year, surely itself one of the most glorious times of the year, especially so in the city I love, Sydney.

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