When Kindness crowns the heart, Our conversations will be songs. When we talk in songs, our feet will just have to dance.
Day 19 – The Lost Ring, a Boy, & a Woman’s Tears
A simple, sad story with a happy ending. A woman grieving over a lost engagement ring in a gazillion grains of sand on a Sydney beach.
Day 18 – Bus To The Heart Of Denial
This is a poem about Charles Perkins, a civil rights activist who dedicated his life to achieving justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Day 17 – Valourous Val, Our Kind Warrior
In 1977, when former nun Val Edwards was arrested as one of the leaders of protests against the Bjelke-Peterson Government’s overreach in trying to ban
Day 16 – How Some Men Cry
Men and toxic masculinity is a sad indictment on us all. This poem reflects a breakdown in relationship between Fathers and their sons.
Day 15 – Sleeping on a Stone Pillow
Sleeping on a Stone Pillow involved a social worker, befriends a homeless woman named Florabelle, played by Lucille Ball, to understand what it is like.
Day 14 – Just One Student’s Note
When Chris resigned from a very toxic workplace he was feeling hurt and broken. This note left one day on his noticeboard from a student lifted his spirits.
Day 13 – Marcel, Making the Invisible Visible
In 1944 when Marcel Mangel’s father was taken by the Nazis to Auschwitz, where he was killed, he changed his name to Marceau and joined the French Resistance.
Day 12 – The Face In The Mirror Kindness Starts Here
The mannequins in the shop window are dressed for tennis, or resplendent in evening dress for a dress-up evening, they all look full of life in a lifeless way.
Day 11 – A First Nations Child’s Failings: Australia Day When A Nation Truly Remembers
We celebrate Australia Day on the day the Australia was claimed for England. A sad history for those who inhabited the land for many thousands of years before.
