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I Still Lose Myself to a Good...Book Week...

And since the end of World War II parents and guardians have been hyperventilating about ideas and preparation of costumes for primary school book parades with peak stress hitting at around 7pm the evening before.

What have you organised? What time is the parade? Who are your friends going as? You do understand the theme? We have left it too late ...

The questions and frustrated statements and guilt and panic continue creating all manner of hullabaloo.

LeadershipBrian Wightman26 October 2020books, book week, reading, literacy, school, teacher, parents, learning, English, school teacher, COVID-19

When the Wind Blows

Geoffrey Dyer is dead.

He painted Richard Flanagan and won the Archibald Prize in 2003.

I am reading Flanagan's new novel.

Artists and writers inspire me: their craft, their dedication, their toil, and their need.

They are like old friends.

I had a glass of something with Dyer and a glass of something else with Flanagan in a bar on Salamanca.

ReflectionBrian Wightman12 October 2020Dyer, Flanagan, tragedy, wind, camping, rain, view, trees, mood, perspective, art, artists, crash, books, music, volunteers