Having worked for so many years as a manager in charge of Workplace Safety my heart always goes out to the men, women and sadly children who have no choice but to accept hazardous working conditions. …
Category: People
true stories of people i meet.
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Men in Trucks
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A Simple Island Life
Each morning begins before the sun appears over the cliff raining daylight along the leeward living below our 21st century sun. Monkeys grab at fruit scraps (sometime pets) a few chickens and fecund dogs wander …
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Empty
this red bench was the 'pop of colour' i had been seeking to finish the 'developing your eye' wordpress course. there is usually an street vendor sitting here reading the newspaper while he sells sweets, fans or small plastic toys. at night he sleeps between pieces of cardboard in an alley behind an international hotel.
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Magic Fish Dreaming
Author and poet June Perkins is launching a book of children's poetry Magic Fish Dreaming in Brisbane on 30 October 2016. This is my greeting video.
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Quiet acts of kindness
There is something in the quiet stoicism in which Filipinos approach discomfort that is compelling.
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what is helping?
Can you see Shelia below in the intense heat? Can you imagine the street edges strewn with the debris of long grasses, tree and leaf litter, broken bamboo sticks or the thick smoke or the …
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a floor tile
below all the day mostly unnoticed by us you carried here, laid carefully. placed by hands now forgotten, unknown. yet you mindfully made for a purpose; proposed, constructed, planned and placed. you, we, the same. …
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the public market
hanging resting smoking standing waiting © 2016 Melinda Irvine
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On the Wings of Love
On the streets of Botongon you will often see an oddly dressed person walking, or singing in the market place for bread or rice. That’s Ronnie. Ronnie lives in a tiny “house” caring for his …
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His last hours
“When you receive this letter, I shall be dead by then…. Tomorrow at seven, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion…. I am going to die with a tranquil …
