Feb 19, 2016 | Belonging, Interesting Ephemera
“As a species we fundamentally evolved to care and nurture, initially our nuclear family, but ultimately our hunger-gatherer tribe, and that has imbued us with certain neural connections. And what I mean by that is that to have what we call a theory of mind, to have...
Feb 9, 2016 | Belonging, Interesting Ephemera
“Civilization is a series of techniques in which the hunter-gatherer brain teaches itself to rewire itself. And the sad proof that civilization is a composite of the higher and lower brain functions is seen when civilization breaks down in civil wars, and brutal...
Jan 24, 2016 | Belonging, Your Stories
On working on an oil rig, Formula One racing, and how having no place to call home drives change It’s Ramadan and Yassmin was up late last night. After several emails, we make contact the day before she flies out to the oil rig where she works as a well-site drilling...
Dec 14, 2015 | Belonging, Writing With Refugee Kids
School’s out and I’ve just finished my first year at Milpera State High School for refugee and migrant children. Unlike some of the kids who came to do my creative writing sessions, I won’t be moving on in January when the new school year begins here in Australia....
Dec 8, 2015 | Belonging, Interesting Ephemera
“Every language belongs to a specific place. It can migrate, it can spread. But usually it’s tied to a geographical territory, a country. Italian belongs mainly to Italy, and I live on another continent, where one does not readily encounter it. “I...
