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SILENCE

“Nothing resembles the language of God so much as does silence.”

Meister Eckhard wrote those words. What do they mean? Among other things, they speak of a deep mystery.

RONALD ROLHEISER

RON ROLHEISER

Ronald Rolheiser, a Roman Catholic priest and member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, is president of the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, Texas

IRISH JESUITS

Sacred Space

We invite you to make a ‘Sacred Space’ in your day,
and spend ten minutes, praying here and now, as you sit at your computer,
with the help of on-screen guidance and scripture chosen specially every day.

HEADLINE NEWS

SITTING ON COMPUTER ALL DAY AND CHECKING YAHOO EMAILS HAS OPENED MY EYES TO THE WORLD OF THE HEADLINE . NOW THATS AN UNUSUAL PLACE TO BE .

• 10 dead as plane hits aerobics class
• Putting a freeze on executive pay doesn’t make sense.

• Inmates in teenage jail ‘orgy’

• Schoolkids urged to eat whale meat

• Suicidal pets given anti-depressants

• Bar patrons stop machete wielders

  7:37am | Machete-wielding men attempt to rob a Sydney pub where a bikie meeting was taking place.

JADE HAS TWIN GIRLS

TWO LITTLE GIRLS were born today. 4lbs and 5lbs round about 11 am this morning in Brisbane. The Mum is Jade the cousin  of my children.  She has one other girl and one boy. Welcome to Brisbane Kids.

TELSTRA PROTEST IN BILAMBIL VALLEY

The TELSTRA petition collected in the BILAMBIL VALLEY

THIS IS THE PETITION WE PUT IN THE BILAMBIL VILLAGE POST OFFICE STORE.

SIGN THIS PETITION

TELSTRA : GIVE US BACK OUR PHONES.

WE,The undersigned, as residents and telephone subscribers in the Bilambil Valley, hereby state what we are completely dissatisfied with the quality of our landline telephone access and associated services. We also wish it to be known that the responses and interim alternatives we’ve been offered to this point by Telstra are unsatisfactory. We want our lines fixed.

So this is what we put in the shop and lo and behold within a week or three we had more than 100 names in this small community. Was this enough to receive responses from Telstra or anyone else ? NO !!!!!!!

Here are some of the Comments people have made. Keep in mind that None of these were solicited. No coercion was used. The forms were simply put on the shop counter and in came the complaints which people had been struggling with in isolation for months. Each time I have made contact – Telstra has smooth talked and told me it was AN ISOLATED CASE.

Here are SOME of the other isolated cases of people dealing with TELSTRA landlines in Bilambi Valley.

• LARGE BILLS SMALL QUALITY
• UNABLE TO USE PHONE SO UNABLE TO PAY TELSTRA FOR THE PRIVILEGE
• NO SERVICE WHATSOEVER FROM OFFICES IN TELSTRA
• UNSATISFACTORY TELEPHONE LINES. CANT HEAR PROPERLY
• NO RECPTION FOR MOBILE. POOR RECEPTION FOR LANDLINES
• NO LANDLINE
• NO LANDLINE FOR 4 MONTHS. NO LANDLINE FOR INTERNET ACCESS
• BROADBAND SERVICE IS TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE. PHONE LINES HAVE STATIC CONTINUOUSLY
• ERRATIC LANDLINE
• 1 PUBLIC PHONE FOR WHOLE BILAMBIL HEIGHTS USUALLY OCCUPIED OR OUT OF ORDER
• SERVICE IS TOTALLY UNSATISFACTORY
• RATSHIT
• TERRIBLE LINE MOST OF THE TIME

I will go on with these. Pausing to remind you that these are unsolicited , handwritten complaints by very ordinary residents only 15kms from TWEED HEADS.

• QUALITY TERRIBLE . NO SERVICES
• THIS IS A DISGUSTING STATE OF AFFAIRS. TELSTRA SHOULD DO BETTER
• SERVICES DESPERATELY NEED IMPROVEMENT
• CONSTANT BREAKDOWNS
• CONSTANT BUZZING SOUNDS
• EXTREMELY POOR SERVICE AND NEGATIVE RESPONSES FROM TELSTRA. NO INTERNET. SHAMEFUL
• BAD LINE. NO BROADBAND.
• HOPELESS LINES NO BROADBAND
• NO PHONE WHEN IT RAINS
• VERY POOR VOICE QUALITY
• VERY BAD RECEPTION
• UNSATISFACTORY
• NO IMPRESSED
• AN ESSENTIAL NECESSITY FOR BILAMBIL
• MOBILE PHONE HARD TO GET
• LANDLINE NOT ACCESSIBLE SINCE 2.11.07. DISGRACE ( WRITTEN IN JAN 2008)
• TELSTRA PULL YA FINGER OUT AND FIX YOUR PROBLEM
• SHOCKING – PUT ON MORE STAFF
• INTERNET SHOCKING. TELEPHONE CUTS OFF
• INTERNET SERVICE UNSATISFACTORY
• REALLY BAD RECEPTION AND CUTS OUT AFTER STORMS
• CRACKLING DROPS OUT EVERY 10 SECONDS. NOPHONE LINE FOR 3 WEEKS.
• INTERNET DROPS OUT
• NOT GOOD
• NEXT G USELESS. LANDLINE NOISY
• TEMPORARY FACILITY NOT WORKING. TELSTRA REALLY DOESN’T CARE
• NEXT G. CRAP
• RECEPTION SUCKS
• BAD LINE
• EXPECT MORE FROM TELSTRA. GOD ONLY KNOWS WHY !
• NEED MORE COMPETITION HAVING ONE PHONE COMPANY IS RIDICULOUS
• DISGRACE
• NEED SOMETHING DONE
• NOT GOOD ENOUGH
• PHONE KEEPS CUTTING OUT. RECEIVE OTHER PEOPLES CALLS. EXTREME STATIC ON LINE. IS UNACCEPTABLE
• THE PHONES ARE CRAP
• DISTORTION, BAD LINES ARE A CONSTANT PROBLEM
• CONSTANT CRACKLE ON LINE. CAN’T HEAR OTHER PARTY
• STATIC AND WAITING 4 TOO LONG TO GET PHONES FIXED. SERVICE IS SHIT.
• PHONE DROPS OUT AND I WANT TO GET BROADBAND
• UNSATISFACTORY LANDLINE TELSTRA REGIONAL
• STATIC AND TERRIBLE INTERNET CONNECTIONS NOISY PHONE LINES
• STATIC BAD INTERNET CONNECTION TERRIBLE SERVICE
• STATIC BAD. CANT HEAR. NO DIAL UP
• CROSSED LINES. STATIC . RINGS FOR NO REASON.
• BAD LINE AND LINE DROP OUT
• BAD CONNECTION
• FIX PIGGABEEN AS WELL. WE ALL PAY FOR IT BUT DON’T GET THE SERVICE
• CRACKLY PHONE
• BAD SERVICE
• MORE PUBLIC PHONES FOR THE PEOPLE. WE OWN YOU TELSTRA !
• MOBILE PHONES AND INTERNET BROADBAND ACCESS NEED IMMEDIATE UPGRADING
• VERY UNSATISFACTORY SERVICE FOR SO MANY RESIDENTS WE NEED OUR INTERNET FOR VARIOUS REASONS
• SERVICE TOTALLY UNSATISFACTORY

GO INTO YOUR FUTURE TO GET YOUR PAST AND BRING IT TO HERE.

THE ZEN FROG

The past is already past.
Don’t try to regain it.
The present does not stay.
Don’t try to touch it.

From moment to moment.
The future has not come;
Don’t think about it
Beforehand.

In ten directions everywhere, throughout the sea of lands,
Every hair-tip encompasses oceans of past, present and future.
So, too, there is a sea of Buddhas, a sea of Buddha lands;
Pervading them all, I cultivate for seas of endless time.

- The Flower Adornment Sutra
Translated by The Buddhist Text Translation Society

 

 

 

 

 

 A new home by a gap in the Meng wall;
Of the old trees, a few gnarled willows are left.
Those who come in the future, who will they be,
Grieving in vain for what others had before?
- Wang Wei (701-761 AD)

AUCHENSHUGGLE IN FEBRUARY

IN THE Shuggle for 4 days, Only a few more weeks and then this is done. Then I am going to live with a fulltime PhD student and do research. Today it seems the rain is actually taking a break. Crisp and clear and fresh. All manner of birds come to the garden now. The wet summer has brought new life apparently.

Mornings I go down and kick the engine over wile Izzy hits the starter motor with a hammer and stick. To go off to UQ. We will be able to live together in 4-5 weeks. Next week we go south to Kate and IMM in Kalang and then I go over the mountains to TheKids in Armidale. 2 weeks away is not what I really like but I am malnourished in the area of family contact so off I go. Mebbe one of them will know how to fix the iBookG4 Mac which freezes midstream all the time.

Beryl Mortimer is up and about in her garden and one loud crw is dominating on the front wire. I have a Premier coach ticket on which to get a refund. Mebbe I will mail it in and get the cheque refund after all. Or go to Roma Street and get cash at the counter. Best do that today en route to UQ this afternoon.

Been researching MELINDA KENDALL all week till my mind is lost someplace in the 19th Century and muddled at that. Today I shall begin on My own long lost family which is now making more sense to me. I remain proud of the Grandmother Hannah Hitchens who was described as A LOOSE WOMAN – on a convict ship. One of only 6 to be so described on the ship -BROTHERS- 1823-24. Go for it grandma. Then she went to live with Thomas Benson – Grandfather – equally dodgy – in Sussex Street – right near where Melinda and Basil met in 1835.

WEEKENDS

TWO TOUGH AND CRAZY PEOPLE GET

TOGETHER AND CONSIDER THINGS.

THEY CONTEMPLATE.

Then they pay attention to the considerings of the

rest of the world.

No contempt prior to investigation here.

_______________________________

“Any significant long-term change requires long-term practice, whether that
change has to do with playing the violin or learning to be a more open,
loving person. We all know people who say that they have been permanently
changed by experiences of a moment or a day or a weekend. But when you
check it out you’ll generally discover that those who ended up permanently
changed had spent considerable time preparing for their life-changing
experience or had continued diligently practicing the new behavior afterward.”
- Michael Murphy and George Leonard

Better days are coming – they are called Saturday and Sunday.

TODAY TONIGHT IN BILAMBIL

Today TODAY TONIGHT came to BILAMBIL in response to our petition GIVE US BACK OUR PHONES TELSTRA.

I shall write more tomorrow and put some photos there. Watch for the viewing Monday early in March 2008.

A COUPLE OF DAYS IN BRISBANE

Back in the Valley after 2 1/2 days in Brisbane. Its O week at UQ ( the UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND ) I was there this morning. Markets were on and masses of NEW people.

That was this moring. We parked the Star Wagon in one of the bottom carparks $3 a day PAand DISPLAY and walked up past the new building reminiscent of the 70s and without verandahs or balconies. All air conditioned . Some facing the West to capture the Brisbane shattering afternoon heat . Then the Austlit workers endeavour to access the building.

I was going to Bellingen and Armidale this week. Bought the tickets – to Urunga on the train this Friday. Thats a loose expression since there is no longer a Murwillumbah train and one takes a coach from Tweed Heads way out to Casino. Then onto the XPT train – once described to me by a fellow passenger as a PEOPLE CARRIER. I was however booked on it for Friday. $2.50 on disabled pension. And I was booked to come back from Urunga to Byron Bay on a Coach the following Friday to meet Izzy who is doing a gig at Bangalow and we are staying in a cabin. So things were looking good for this trip which rivals the adventures of John Dobie and Richard Craig as they crossed from Armidale to the Clarence. All that was left was to book the Keans coach ride from Bellingen to Armidale. 3 times a week. Skype phone wasnt working and we don’t have a landline so I decided to be daring and ring on Optus Moible. So – back in the Shuggle from Brisbane CBD I tried the mobile contact with Keans coaches in Far away Port Macquarie. Not Sunday – said she. Our new timetable starts this week.

Aha ! thinks I . They’ve moved into the 21st century and upped it to a bus a day. Not likely. They now go up the mountain only 2 days a week. Monday and Thursday and Back down the mountain Tuesday and Friday. That put the kibbosh on my plans entirely. Flummoxed I were. Flummoxed.
I got the other two tickets in at Roma Street after buying another RESMED laptop bag from COBBLERS TWO in the city. $5. Great buy. We have one now for each of the laptops. Then I tackled the Roma Street 3rd floor where the coaches come in.  Tackled Greyhound first up. I had fixed it in my head that the ticket from Urunga to Byron was $42 so was a wee bit surprised when the lass told me it was $72. Leave it – says I . Leave it. I wandered along the 3rd floor and reached the Kirklands Counter – Kirklands and Premier. THEY DID HAVE A SEAT FOR $42. Well done Premier and thumbs down to you Greyhound.

Then down to the Ground Floor and Countrylink train tickets through QR – Queensland Rail. Top service. 3 really helpful QR people. Confused though they were by the $2.50 Country Pensioner Excursion code but they persevered with Brisbane good spirits and All seemed to be going well until the Shuggle and the Keans Coach call.

No matter now. Izzy is going to take me down in the Starwagon on March 4th. Then we will see about Armidale.  So tonight is full moon and solar eclipse and just a splendid hammock hung night on the Hill.

DAY AFTER VALENTINES DAY

Izzy is back. Its clouded again and preparing to dampen . I am still not writing entries – just experimenting to see whether this site suits me or not. I strung a hammock on the porch yesterday. Its not strong enough to lie in but it gives me an illusion of hammock swinging life.

 

“THE COTTAGE”

FEBRUARY 14 08 VALENTINES DAY

‘When you love you should not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather, “I am in the heart of God.” And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, it directs your course.’ GIBRAN.

Morning here in Bilambil . Autumn like already In the Summer of Rain. Across the Paddock there is one cow lowing. Not so bad as on the weekends when they seem distressed in the extreme. Im trying to decide whether or not to keep the Telstra phone on. Wondering also how to put links on this site and it looks like another hidden trap necessitating paid for upgrades. Nevertheless it is morning in Bilambil. Water dripping from the roof. Cool breeze coming up from the Dell down the back. Washing machine burring along. I have a Valentine this year. There’s something for you at 58. That means a Valentines email due to us both being computer fixated and glad to move in a world where the fingertip accesses many , many things in a Vodafone instant. Izzy sings a song called I LOVE YOU BABY BUT YOU AIN’T HERE AND SHE IS. Catches my attention it does. Well he ain’t here today but its OK and he will be here this weekend. With its being Valentine’s Day I had best consider the Matters of the Heart .

Two and a half years in a Cottage.

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BEDTIME

DARK

SORRY DAY

GREAT DAY TO START A NEW BLOG.

MAROUBRA