Sparks

 It’s like this: You go numb into your silent lunch hours Into the chill doom of daylight Are swept street­less down to city libraries Walk out with China Mieville novels And Duke Elling­ton and urban fairytales Trying to warm your hands and heart...

Essential reading

The Age finally gets access to asylum seekers in Nauru and tells their stor­ies. If you still don’t care about refugee issues after read­ing this, there’s some­thing wrong. Whatever happened to human com­pas­sion and dignity?

Congraulations, Christina!!!

Just a quick note to say: con­grat­u­la­tions, dai­syn­erd, on hand­ing in your fab­ulous PhD! You’re incred­ibly smart and fab­ulous and I always knew you could do it.

Pride

I cannot tell you how utterly fab­ulous it feels to watch stu­dents take some­thing you’ve taught them, push you to learn some­thing new your­self, then grasp it and go beyond it. Thank you. You know you you are.