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FiftyFive ~ # 55
This curiously checkered picture is the view from my hotel room in Sydney, taken through the blind. And having spent a couple of days taking in the 17th Biennale of Sydney (patchy but wonderful - Cockatoo Island, best trip if not the best art) I realised my "way of looking" at life had changed. My trip to Australia has to be counted as life affirming. Twenty Eight - thirty hours of travel and then being in a country sharing a common language with a vast collision of "other" cultures - remarkable place. Blogs full of pictures are boring travelogues so I intend streaming what I have. But going back to the start, I attach this, as my first real view of 
Canberra, taken from the Telstra Tower on a freezing cold day. Such a fantastic view and here, its own shadow pointing at Canberra the parliament town where history was beginning to take place. You see when I was there the very first red-head was voted in as Australia's new Prime Minister - not only that, he is a she (and if that phrase sounds sexist - hey, its Australia and relevant I can assure you). Which is to say Australia has its first female Prime Minister. In between writing the paper I was giving, and reading stuff, I was watching Australian history unfolding - remarkable and curious, for in Canberra you really do feel as though you are in the middle of government taking place. Julia Gillard is the new Australian red-headed PM - here is another, singing Something to Talk About - which I though appropriate from one of my favourite guitar players:
This curiously checkered picture is the view from my hotel room in Sydney, taken through the blind. And having spent a couple of days taking in the 17th Biennale of Sydney (patchy but wonderful - Cockatoo Island, best trip if not the best art) I realised my "way of looking" at life had changed. My trip to Australia has to be counted as life affirming. Twenty Eight - thirty hours of travel and then being in a country sharing a common language with a vast collision of "other" cultures - remarkable place. Blogs full of pictures are boring travelogues so I intend streaming what I have. But going back to the start, I attach this, as my first real view of 
Canberra, taken from the Telstra Tower on a freezing cold day. Such a fantastic view and here, its own shadow pointing at Canberra the parliament town where history was beginning to take place. You see when I was there the very first red-head was voted in as Australia's new Prime Minister - not only that, he is a she (and if that phrase sounds sexist - hey, its Australia and relevant I can assure you). Which is to say Australia has its first female Prime Minister. In between writing the paper I was giving, and reading stuff, I was watching Australian history unfolding - remarkable and curious, for in Canberra you really do feel as though you are in the middle of government taking place. Julia Gillard is the new Australian red-headed PM - here is another, singing Something to Talk About - which I though appropriate from one of my favourite guitar players: 
