Blogs1 - 10 of 17 recent posts for tag:"michael leunig"
27
Jun
2009
Leunig sees downturn’s silver lining  

12 days ago by madeline

By News Online’s Amy Simmons, Thu Jun 25, 2009 Michael Leunig says the tough economic times will plant seeds of change and happiness. (Michael Leunig) // For all the pain and suffering the financial crisis is inflicting, the philosophical among us say there is a plus side – a happier, richer side. A ...

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04
Jun
2009
Leunig on Over Stimulation  

35 days ago by Jason Goroncy

‘The individual is overwhelmed by the magnitude. We have embraced technology and economic systems that are just unfathomable and massive and all-powerful. I think television is a totally destructive and corrosive medium. People are living lives though television and films and the media rather than t ...

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Rotunda in the West — Michael Leunig  

35 days ago by ausjazz

Michael Leunig at Victoria University This does not qualify as a jazz gig at all, but I’m posting a few thoughts despite the fact that I have some jazz gig posts (for Howard Cairns at Paris Cat, Adam Simmons at 45 Downstairs) to add that should precede this — if I am totally anal about the order of ...

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27
May
2009
Leunig on Television  

43 days ago by Jason Goroncy

‘You see a society that’s provided for by television is a society that says it doesn’t need too many parks or natural situations for children to play in because television will look after them. So I think we, we start to construct the shape of our cities and our suburbs is built around this fact tha ...

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17
May
2009
A Sunday Thought – Happiness Is….  

53 days ago by Hanie

Happiness is………….. eating my favourite Baskin Robbin’s vanilla ice cream on a hot day on a secluded beach, nice warm and soft sand open blue sky and inviting water with my two most favourite people in the whole wide world not a care in the world but just living for that moment. Happiness is……… wakin ...

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30
Apr
2009
Literature  

70 days ago by homepaddock

April is poetry month - I don’t know who decided that, but I read it somewhere on the internet (exactly where I can’t remember). But I read it there so it must be so and because it’s so I’ve posted a poem a day as my contribution to the celebration of what my OED says is the elevated expression of e ...

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28
Apr
2009
Happy Words...  

72 days ago by Shasta McBride

"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that." - Michael Leunig

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The Awfulisers  

72 days ago by homepaddock

Today’s contribution to poetry month is Michael Leunig’s The Awfulisers from Poems 1972 - 2002, published by Viking. The Awfulisers Every night and every day The awfulisers work away, Awfulising public places, Favourite things and little graces; Awfulising lovely treasures, Common joys and simple pl ...

Homepaddock - homepaddock.wordpress.com · Rank: 8,096 · 83 references

10
Apr
2009
Week of Happiness -- Day 5: LOVE, BABY!  

90 days ago by Wild About Words

A quote: "Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that." ~Michael Leunig A poem: Sonnet 43 - How do I love thee? Let me count the ways by Elizabeth Barrett Browning How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul c ...

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