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RemoNotRomolo
@remoostini.bsky.social
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Recovering academic. Convinced that it’s worth caring about each other. Curious about democracy. 🤨 Queenslander living in the ACT. Country boy at heart.
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Naomi Shihab Nye

poets.org/poem/kindness
A section from the poem ‘Kindness’ “Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho lies dead by the side of the road. You must see how this could be you, how he too was someone who journeyed through the night with plans and the simple breath that kept him alive.”
October 31, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Annabel Crabb makes may good points, including:

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
So if we're going to be in the business of asking big questions, let's make sure we ask not just the big economic questions, but the big human ones. Remembering that they're not always the same thing.
August 7, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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Australia is flatter than the moon though…

Random fact courtesy of The Daily Aus: www.newsletter.thedailyaus.com.au
Random fact of the day. Australia is wider than the moon. The moon has a diameter of 3,400km, while Australia’s diameter is almost 4,000km.
July 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Pair Amanda Gorman’s beautiful words with remembering to breathe and you’re halfway there.

With thanks to @anabaptistsaunz.bsky.social
"The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it." ― Amanda Gorman
July 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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The absolute joy of ripe custard apple!
(Those gigantic avocados are also delicious)
A bowl of fruit with custard apples, avocados and lemons
July 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Some gorgeous thoughts about faith. Not restricted to religious faith.

With thanks to @anabaptistsaunz.bsky.social
“Faith is the conviction that this world is not tragic but comic. Maybe it gives a person the ability to see whatever joy and beauty and wit flickers in the disorienting darkness. Or maybe it is the result of noticing those flickers. I don’t know. And how can we know for sure the flickers are clues to how the story will end? We can’t know for sure. Nevertheless, most mornings I wake up believing that we are perennials not annuals—a feeling that itself is a gift. Surely what dies will spring back to life." ― Jeanne Murray Walker, Leaping from the Burning Train: A Poet’s Journey of Faith
June 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Not a bad model for a political party. Recognising that sometimes a lack of leadership is the problem.
Cover of the Minnesota Alumni magazine with the caption “Find a problem. Solve it.”
May 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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ET, call home!
A picture of a large ground-based communications dish, along a path between trees
April 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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From the National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral & Social Science Research - reminding us that our connections are vital to our wellbeing, from the very beginning.
When asked to recall our earliest memories, many of us are not able to pinpoint exactly when or where they occurred. However, we can often remember who was there. Go ahead and try it—what is one of the earliest moments you can recall? Approximately how old were you, and where did it take place? Who was there with you? If the picture your mind painted was blurry, but the actors were clear, this is because we grow up in the context of our relationships with others. This concept is central to early relational health, the notion that safe, stable, and nurturing relationships (SSNRs) in early childhood build the foundation for healthy development across the lifespan. Decades of child development research in scientific fields such as psychology, neuroscience, and public health have established the importance of SSNRs in a child’s life in enabling optimal physical and emotional development.
March 25, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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I had no idea it was a genre!
Bet it’s spicy.
#RuralAustralia
March 15, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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But why?
A picture of a ramp down to the street that’s beside a path instead of at the end of the path Same ramp problem on the opposite side of the street
March 9, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Good old Vince. It might be a cheesy 60 year old quote but it still holds
A Vince Lombardi quotation: Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, and a civilization work.
March 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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The sky over Mt Ainslie is so blue today!
Deep blue sky over gum trees and a red dirt track
February 2, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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With thanks to AAANZ
Rainer Maria Rilke quotation: “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.”
January 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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The back wall of Alliance Francaise in CBR

#Gauls #NationalPride #TheseRomansAreCrazy #SPQR
December 9, 2024 at 8:32 AM
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‘90’s Chomsky looks a lot like ‘80’s Malcom Fraser… from a distance…
A photo of Noam Chomsky
November 19, 2024 at 5:25 AM
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I think progress looks scary sometimes. This can be a problem for progressives.
A gigantic billboard advertising UNSW that says in all caps “PROGRESS IS ADVANCING EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL”
November 7, 2024 at 9:59 AM
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Interesting idea that beauty is not just pretty and nice. The notion of beauty in grief is quite compelling - if a little unsettling…
A quotation about beauty that says it can be found in “emptiness and fullness, loss and gain, grief and joy”.
October 6, 2024 at 7:24 AM
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If you see this, and are so inclined, please post a picture you took at sunset.
Two Norfolk pines on a cliff top with the sun reflecting off the ocean behind them.
August 24, 2024 at 11:01 PM
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If you see this, and are so inclined, please post a picture you took at sunset.
Two Norfolk Island pines on a cliff top with the sun reflecting off the sea behind them
August 24, 2024 at 10:51 PM
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The fern trees of Norfolk Island are tall! 🇳🇫
A picture looking up to the sky through a high canopy of tall fern trees
August 22, 2024 at 12:18 PM
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A Norfolk Island night sky
A picture of the moon behind an evening sky full of clouds
August 21, 2024 at 11:15 AM
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Some things require judgement. But not people
Dietrich Bonhoeffer quotation on the blindness that come from judging people
August 8, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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A common misspelling
August 1, 2024 at 12:16 PM
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Via Meanjin,

meanjin.com.au/poetry/the-o...
A poem by Heberto Padilla, called The Old Bards Speak
May 13, 2024 at 2:07 AM