This week I signed a petition, which called on the Prime Minister and the company who owned him, to free a steer which had escaped when being loaded onto a ship for live export. This poor beast had swum and walked for kilometres in order to escape the fate which his owners had in mind for him, only to be caught and to die at the hands of the humans
I was happy to hear of the announcement by the New South Wales government that it intends to ban greyhound racing as of July next year, and the Australian Capital Territory’s decision to follow suit. I wasn’t quite ecstatic for a number of reasons. One reason is that there is still another year of racing, during which time an estimated 180 dogs will “suffer catastrophic injuries such as skull fractures
My week has been filled with the highest of highs and, although not the very lowest of lows, some painful issues which I have had to try to move past. Like most people, despite my regularly grounding, clearing, and shielding my energy, I become affected by worldwide events. When you add to this, personal issues which arise, I find that I have to use all of the tools which I
One of the books for my course in Native American Spirituality at AIHT is Ed McGaa, Eagle Man’s book, Nature’s Way – Native Wisdom for Living in Balance with the Earth. Each chapter uses an animal in nature to illustrate the author’s point, which is that we must learn from what the animals and the rest of nature have to teach us, if we are to survive the destruction which
I had my appointment with my federal member of parliament today, about live animal exports. I had accumulated a large amount of information about live animal exports and the alternatives which are available in the form of chilled meat exports. Thanks to a very helpful lady at Animals Australia, I had so much information about the industry and the alternatives, that for a while I was a bit overwhelmed. I
How would you like to be remembered? A lot of my writing in recent weeks has been about the fact that we are all one: we are all part of the one God, the one creation, the one community on Earth. Despite our different religions or different beliefs, we all have the same needs, not least of which is love. Although we are all one, and can think of ourselves
If you are a regular reader of my blog, you will remember that, a couple of weeks ago, I talked about empathy and energy. My conclusion, if you recall, was that empathy was a good thing, because it caused us to want to create joy for everyone, as a way to create joy for ourselves. Then I received this daily quote from Abraham-Hicks: There are as many different worlds as
On 19th May 2013, I sent the following document to every Australian MP and every Australian senator. Below, you will find their responses and my conclusions: "I recently saw the movie “Amazing Grace” about William Wilberforce and his campaign to end the slave trade. When viewing the cramped and putrid conditions in which slaves were transported on the sea, I was reminded of the way we now transport our live