The title of this post is taken from SBS’s current brand statement and it succinctly describes how I’m feeling, sitting and sweating on my bed in a muggy Sydney. We ended 2008 with a surprising, conceit and less than inspiring carbon emissions reduction target for Australia in 2020, Israel invading the Gaza Strip and Australia going down in the first Test match against South Africa. 2009 began with India claiming the Pakistan government were implicit in the Mumbai bomb attacks, Russia cutting off the supply of gas to heat Eastern Europe and rumours emerging about a wrestling film reportedly the standout of the awards season.
As someone who is now long dead once wrote, the world is a book. And those that don’t travel read only one page. But no one tells you, that the book is no easy read. The one thing that I can say, whatever it is that you are looking for: beauty, salvation, enlightenment, danger, or just to disappear, this will only be a fraction of what you’ll find. I’m just trying to read the whole book. – Sipping Jetstreams
Welcome back Street readers, where ever you are. While not professing to being able to cover all six billion stories, I just wanted to acknowledge the sheer multitude of events that transpire to directly and indirectly touch our lives, and which are sometimes published in this space.
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