So lets get this straight. Prince Andrew spends years vilified and made fun of for his Marriage to Sarah Ferguson, suffered total indignation when the image of her Toe Sucking Texan Adviser was splashed for the whole world to see coupled with her cheapening of her royal status as a 'for hire' Duchess.
Despite all this Prince Andrew , like his Mother, has remained dignified throughout, keeping his former wife in his own home with an annual living allowance and taking on the full costs of their children.
Launch a Book in Brisbane, Open a Film Festival in Mackay, Speak with 'At Risk' Children, Train 5 dogs, Edit and post 6 Youtube Videos, Rebuild a website and Dance like a Greek in front of 20,000 at Paniyiri
Lets just say she has been an interesting week!
I was honoured to be invited by Shelly Argent the National Spokesman for PFLAG to launch her book, 'Opening the Door', a Mothers Journey when her Son Comes Out'. As I have never even been to a book launch the idea was rather novel and I didn't really take in the enormity of it (when Shelly rang to ask me I was marking and drenching lambs out on the property). However after I had let the sheep go and closed all the gates and began wondering back to the cottage in the dark, I did realise what she had asked, I started to get very apprehensive and nervous about the idea.
It seems timely that a day after Jason Akermanis' comments regarding his advice for those in his profession not to speak out about their sexuality (well only that which involves sex exclusively with males...as footballers heterosexual and bisexual behaviour has been widely reported) that a Minister in the NSW government has been forced to deal with his sexual behaviour with men.
David Campbell is a man who belongs to a very large group of people in two respects. He has clearly led a life of fluid sexuality and being married and father several children as well as continuing same-sex relations during his marriage all the while forced to keep it secret.
Damaged by themselves and the restrictions that a modern existence has forced to have all that we know and named and identified so we can put it in boxes, it has been how we are able to move forward.
Humans need to make sense of their world, we invented religions when we realised that stuff just didnt happen, that there had to be a 'God' that created molten lava in anger, until we understood the tectonic plates where moving around very slowly and every now and again releasing molten rock from fissures below the hard surface plates that make up the outer shell of our planet. We needed a 'God' of abundance to explain why we had good or bad results from the cropping season.
So often we get caught up being busy and getting the 'important' things done that we get into the habit of saying thanks without putting the 'importance' that it deserves into it.
I have so much to be thankful for.
Recently this site was hacked by some charming group in Russia or there abouts (you never really know as these characters have the dubious ability to hide their identity and location) its not the first time and probably wont be the last.
However you would hardly have noticed thanks to the incredible work done by our Webmaster Tim Baker who has put literally thousands of hours into this site keeping it working like a well oiled tractor... keeping the site interesting enough for a whopping 480,000 visitors to check it out.
