TEMPUS EDAX RERUM

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and also part of the Seasons meme

FUNNY BUSINESS

Well, it looks like on June 22nd things may begin to have an appearance of normality in Victoria, Australia, with many more restrictions being lifted and many more venues and activities becoming available. Everyone is sick of all the COVID-19 restrictions and endless talk of it in the news, however, we are lucky in Australia as we have had a relatively low number of cases and relatively few deaths. Part of this was due to the draconian measures our government took in dealing with the pandemic, and partly because of the largely compliant and conscientious attitude of our population.

Now as next Monday looms ahead and newly regained freedoms can be enjoyed, it is important for some clowns amongst us to remember :

Let's enjoy our freedom, but let's not push our luck...

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and also part of the Blue Monday meme,

and also part of the Seasons meme.

TEMPUS FUGIT

"Sed fugit interea, fugit inreparabile tempus." Virgil, line 284 of book 3, "Georgics".
(Fast flies meanwhile the irreparable hour."

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and also part of the Blue Monday meme,
and also part of the Seasons meme.

THORNY

"There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers." - Grantland Rice

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LETTER 4

"Culture is the way for a country to know itself." - Peter Carey

Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943, in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria) is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey is one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee and Hilary Mantel. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for Oscar and Lucinda, and won for the second time in 2001 with True History of the Kelly Gang.

In May 2008 he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize. In addition to writing fiction, he collaborated on the screenplay of the film Until the End of the World with Wim Wenders and is executive director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Hunter College, part of the City University of New York.

The State Library of Victoria is the central library of the state of Victoria, located in the Melbourne CBD. It is on the block bounded by Swanston, La Trobe, Russell, and Little Lonsdale streets, in the northern centre of the central business district. The library holds over 2 million books and 16,000 serials, including the diaries of the city's founders, John Batman and John Pascoe Fawkner, and the folios of Captain James Cook. It also houses the original armour of Ned Kelly.

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PATH IN PARKLANDS

"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." - Barack Obama

A quiet path in the Darebin Parklands, lending itself to quiet contemplation and the enjoyment of nature.

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