Reflexxions is a non-word – or it was! The influence is my daughter Alexx. By adding the extra x, she created a unique name, so here’s to you Alexx, someone who is challenging the world of processed, un-nourishing food, and with 30,000+ Facebook Followers is doing something about it, making a difference! AlexxStuart.com You can also join her journey on Facebook.
My younger daughter is making a difference too. As community leader at the Climate Council she is playing her part in creating new understanding of the challenges and solutions available to combat climate change, a task made harder by misinformation and denial, and a media environment where debate and learning has all but ceased.
When countries go to vote for new national leadership, traditionally voters tend to vote governments out, seldom actively embracing a bold new direction. In recent decades around the world there have been noted exceptions. While John F Kennedy threw out “Tricky Dicky” Nixon in 1960, it was as much a call to the promise of the emotive glamour of the
When you start a project with good intentions and then life happens, it’s best to keep people who have expressed prior interest in the loop. Elsewhere on this blog site you’ll find two accounts, from April and May, which describe two different experiences of night life, one a piece on country town impacts of COVID-19, on small business, as seen
News reached me today (27th May 2020), from California-based Australian Image curator, Graham Howe, of the passing on May 24th, of the remarkable John Loengard. Born in 1934 he was part of the golden age of photographers who created and crafted images for Life magazine. He was a superb mentor, teacher, editor, writer, photographer. He joined Life magazine in 1961
No matter your country, we are all now in the global village of Coronavirus sudden change. We have all been affected in every dimension of life by the current COVID-19 pandemic. Different countries have tried different paths. Australia and New Zealand have been, so far, amongst the most successful in limiting the virus’s spread, but at huge economic cost. The
It’s a Saturday night in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, some 100km south of Sydney. It’s been a mild Autumn Day, perfect for a quick daytrip to the clear air some 700 metres above sea level. It’s the kind of day that normally provides a chance to spend an idle morning, slowly reading the Saturday paper, at one
On the last Sunday in November this year I attended a local Southern Highlands, NSW, Australia, Community gathering, hosted by Climate Action Now – Wingecarribee (CANWin). (Wingecarribee is the council that takes in the Highlands towns of Mittagong, Bowral, Moss vale, Bundanoon and Berrima, amongst others.) CANWin had hired the local Memorial Hall in Bowral, a country town at about