Author: Priti Duffield

A frontier town. Trauma in the indigenous population from 150 years of colonisation. An  industry of helpers, working for a 'good cause' - and loving the rawness of the land, the heart-fulness of the indigenous people. However, there is a problem - if they do their job effectively, their clients will get well and...

As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I often end up thinking - and writing -about stuff that can't be grasped with hands, or words. Economics is another example. Just this morning, over breakfast, we had a conversation about it. Starting with the price of maple syrup...

Nick Cave singing in the other room, something about church windows. Somehow, church windows eminate a sense of serenity for me. Particularly the ones with stained glass in the grand gothic churches of Europe. Serenity. What does it mean, really? The Oxford dictionary describes it as: 'The state of being...