Susanna Freymark
Articles by Susanna Freymark
Life is too short to drink bad coffee, is the slogan on the purple Zentfeld umbrellas. The same principle applies to books. Life is short so read good books — there are so many.
I dream of spend
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It’s funny the thoughts you have when you stop thinking. After a hectic few months of being out there, organising and making decisions, I decided to take some time out. A friend was going on holid
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It’s time to turn. It’s time for The Great Turning, says Joanna Macy, ecophilosopher and activist.
The Great Turning is the third revolution, the transition from the indus-trial revolution to a
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That day in the Bay I hadn’t bumped into anyone I knew. It was busy and bustling with the faces of strangers, no one said hello.
By chance, a friend phoned and told me about a Buddhist talk on
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I feel like listening. Deep listening. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, talking, debating on issues and a lot of doing. It’s time to listen.
Not just to the people I find interesting and pass
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The world is doomed. An over-reaction or a pertinent prediction in relation to the current debates about global warming and climate change?
I am still sorting through the information and misinform
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Everything I need to know about life I can learn from Michael Leunig. I met the man on his recent visit to Byron Bay and his teapot philosophy made more sense than ever before. With confidence I can
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No other place evokes my sense of self more than the long, straight line of the horizon.
As a child you know where you belong. Your name, address and family ties you to a place and helps define who
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The truth excites me. Yet the more I thought and talked about it the more confused I became. I found that I knew nothing about truth. I could write pages on what truth isn’t.
It wasn’t so diffic
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What’s in a name? It identifies you. It indicates your history. Your culture. And sometimes your fame. You know you’ve hit the height of celebrity when you are recognised by your first name only
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The quiet tap tap of the keyboard. Words fall onto the page with technological speed. In between the flow of sentences I gaze across the green fields to the ocean line stretching across the sky. It
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My car is sending me messages, or it was until it died. In my haste to ‘do’ I seriously neglected my mode of transport. I drove to meetings, appointments and other ‘important’ places and fai
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Within ten minutes of meeting and greeting each other a group of women are likely to have discussed the new teacher at school, Jean’s haircut, the film they saw last night and Brenda’s latest tr
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Goliath was a huge man. He was a giant who stood more than nine feet tall. He cursed at the Israelites and said bad things about their God. He asked one man amongst the Israelites to come out to fig
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'What does it mean to belong in the world, in Australia, in our community? Belonging invokes a sense of place, home, and safety. To belong is the core of being human and we define ourselves through
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