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The Gambler

by | May 12, 2015 | Close to Home

Watched The Gambler1 the other day. It’s an act of treason beyond all reason. He’s not a gambler he’s a suicide looking for a way. So he rolls the dice, ‘All on black’ he says. ‘All.’ He’s a funeral, a burial waiting to...

Shirley Is Glorified

by | Apr 19, 2015 | Personal

  This photograph is from a random drive through the Kimberley when I was researching my thriller project. The story is so embedded in my imagination now that I can’t look at this without being inside a 4WD coming down that hill at night, the vehicle chasing...

Living The Passion

by | Apr 11, 2015 | Wrestling

‘Does not every movement in the passion write large some common element in the sufferings of our race? First, the prayer of anguish, not granted. Then he turns to his friends. They are asleep as ours, or we, are so often, or busy, or away, or preoccupied. Then...

Motivational Ecosystems

by | Mar 31, 2015 | Wrestling

Two words I’ve found helpful in the coaching process are ‘enable’ and ‘galvanize’. To ‘enable’ means to make something possible and to ‘galvanize’ means to ‘shock or excite someone into action’. Interestingly, the word galvanize comes from an old French word meaning...

Heart of My Hearts

by | Mar 25, 2015 | Poems

When stone blocks fall from the great grey sky And the earth splits open in the heart of my hearts And fire flows freely across the land. I take a long drive and I don’t come back Till the mother of love and the father of joy The river of mud and the barking dogs The...