The aftermath

A good night at the poetry gig with a pleas­ing attend­ance and good book sales (sold 16, which isn’t really a lot from 50, so I have a ton left). Who wanted and where am I send­ing them? E‑mail rbersten@heliotrope.net.au with orders and...

Israel

I’m feel­ing my way to responses on this. I don’t have intel­lec­tual ones yet, not coher­ently, anyway. I saw a guy at the Picasso exhibit today wear­ing a kippah and, having just read about Sonia Mosse (was that her name?), the artist who stayed with...

Projector?

Does anyone (in Mel­bourne) have a data pro­jector I could borrow for the poetry gig this Tues­day night?
Despair

Despair

I cannot com­pre­hend what Israel has chosen to do in the last few weeks, nor how this ‘escal­a­tion’ is sup­posed to solve any­thing. Do they really think they’ll get their sol­diers back by killing civil­ians? How can they not see the con­sequences of this? I...