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Daddy Kookaburra Feeding His Chick

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Posted on January 21, 2019 | Permalink

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Ollie III (Grandson (grandbird) of my buddy Ollie the Kookaburra

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Posted on January 14, 2019 | Permalink

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Man Plays Bach on Piano for Blind Elephant

Bless you, Paul Barton and your big heart. 

 

Posted on July 13, 2018 | Permalink

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Virtuous Monk Predicted Rescue of Thai Soccer Boys

A highly respected Buddhist monk from the Shan State, Phra Kuva Boonchum, predicted that the Thai boys soccer team members trapped in the cave in Thailand would be rescued, two days before they were found alive. 

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/thai-king-offers-robes-monk-predicted-team-trapped-cave-found.html

 

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Posted on July 11, 2018 | Permalink

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Thai Soccer Coach Taught Boys to Meditate

Posted on July 10, 2018 | Permalink

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Critters at City of Ten Thousand Buddhas

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Posted on July 08, 2018 | Permalink

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Lest We Forget/Nous les n'oublions jamais! (Anzac Day Post)

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Tears fall on Anzac Day. I have such mixed emotions, coming from a military family but feeling pulled most strongly by the sentiments in the most effective anti-war song ever written: Eric Bogle's "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda," and the best performance of that song ever sung, by the late Liam Clancy. Watch and listen to it here: 

Death and destruction are the winners of every war.

"And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda"

- Eric Bogle

 

Now when I was a young man, I carried me pack, and I lived the free life of a rover

From the Murray's green basin to the dusty outback, well, I waltzed my Matilda all over.

Then in 1915, my country said son, It's time you stopped rambling, there's work to be done.

So they gave me a tin hat, and they gave me a gun, and they marched me away to the war.

 

And the band played Waltzing Matilda, as the ship pulled away from the quay

And amidst all the cheers, the flag-waving and tears, we sailed off for Gallipoli

 

And how well I remember that terrible day, how our blood stained the sand and the water

And of how in that hell that they called Suvla Bay, we were butchered like lambs at the slaughter.

Johnny Turk he was waiting, he'd primed himself well. He shower'd us with bullets,

And he rained us with shell. And in five minutes flat, he'd blown us all to hell

Nearly blew us right back to Australia.

 

But the band played Waltzing Matilda, when we stopped to bury our slain.

We buried ours, and the Turks buried theirs, then we started all over again.

 

And those that were left, well we tried to survive, in that mad world of blood, death and fire

And for ten weary weeks, I kept myself alive, though around me the corpses piled higher

Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over head, and when I woke up in my hospital bed,

And saw what it had done, well I wished I was dead. Never knew there was worse things than dyin'.

 

For I'll go no more waltzing Matilda, all around the green bush far and free

To hump tent and pegs, a man needs both legs-no more waltzing Matilda for me.

 

So they gathered the crippled, the wounded, the maimed, and they shipped us back home to Australia.

The legless, the armless, the blind, the insane, those proud wounded heroes of Suvla

And as our ship pulled into Circular Quay, I looked at the place where me legs used to be.

And thanked Christ there was nobody waiting for me, to grieve, to mourn, and to pity.

 

But the band played Waltzing Matilda, as they carried us down the gangway.

But nobody cheered, they just stood and stared, then they turned all their faces away

 

And so now every April, I sit on me porch, and I watch the parades pass before me.

And I see my old comrades, how proudly they march, reviving old dreams of past glories

And the old men march slowly, old bones stiff and sore. They're tired old heroes from a forgotten war

And the young people ask, what are they marching for? And I ask myself the same question.

 

But the band plays Waltzing Matilda, and the old men still answer the call,

But as year follows year, more old men disappear. Someday no one will march there at all.

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?

And their ghosts may be heard as they march by that billabong, who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?

 

 

Posted on April 24, 2018 | Permalink

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Queensland Neighbors, 2018 (Warning: Feathers!)

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Posted on March 01, 2018 in Humor | Permalink | Comments (0)

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King Parrot, Queensland Bush, 2018

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Posted on January 28, 2018 | Permalink

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Inner Light During a Dark Time

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Posted on May 12, 2017 | Permalink

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