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Whales, pigs and me

22 Feb ’13 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett
Richard Dawkins "The Ancestor's Tale" audio book traces our ancestry back through the ages, recapping the tales of various animals as they join our "pilgrimage" all the way back to the dawn of evolution. At one particular rendezvous we meet the Artiodactyls - the even-toed mammals i.e. mammals with hoofs like pigs and hippos. Here Dawkins tells the tale of whales. What? Whales don't have hoofs!!! No, but their closest ancestor does. Hippos are in fact closer to whales then they are pigs! Apparently Read more [...]
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Life in Oz

“Throwness” into many worlds

24 Feb ’12 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett
Stepping off an airplane we throw ourselves into completely different worlds. Like when we are born, except that when travelling we have a choice. It can be a shock to the system, forcing us to constantly adapt — to different temperatures, people, and ways of life. Throwing myself from the small-town world of Hickory, North Carolina, via the buzz of New York, into the fast-paced mountain-view winter world of Vancouver for three weeks; directly into the hot humid horse-cart raw world of Nicaragua Read more [...]
Random Life Stuff, Truth
Life in Oz, philosophy

Blogs, Fashion and a Favour… “Enough” by Nicole Bennett

6 Feb ’12 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett
My sister, Nicole Bennett, was the first person to introduce me to "Fair trade". She travelled to Burma, India and other countries getting the bad end of the globalisation stick, long before I did, and became passionate about making a difference. She inspired me to want to make a difference too. I'm (hopefully) doing it through my research and writing. Nicole's doing it through her (soon to be certified) fair trade eco-friendly fashion label "Enough". "Enough" is all about knowing when to say Read more [...]
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Life in Oz

The Woes of the Girl-Who-Cried-Surprise

3 Feb ’12 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett
There was a girl who hated being bored. She hated boredom so much that she liked to do the unexpected. She almost killed herself diving into the deep end, time and time again. It was an intense way of life. It had its benefits. It also took its tolls. Surprise surprise, that girl is me: I’m home. As in, my home in Sydney, “Surprise!” I feel like the boy-who-cried-wolf, but with surprises. It is the second time I’ve turned up in Sydney unannounced. I’ve booked tickets that transport Read more [...]
Adventure
Central America, Life in Oz, Travel

Weaving my world back together: a weekend at Camp Coorong

31 May ’11 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett
Have you ever weaved a basket? I hadn't... "Life's too busy for arts and crafts..." or so I used to think. I was wrong. Weaving was more than relaxing and therapeutic, it embodied a metaphorical connection I was in dire need of. I learned so so much during my weekend at Camp Coorong. I travelled there to discuss a book chapter that I co-authored with some of the Ngarrandjeri youth, transcribing their documentary Nukkan Kungun Yunnan - Narrindjeri's Being Heard. When my alarm went at 4:40am Read more [...]
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Life in Oz, Yoga

Juggling too many balls

22 May ’11 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett
Do you ever feel overwhelmed by life? Does your mind and body ever get to that stage where it feels so limp it hurts? Are you juggling so many balls that they all come tumbling down? Yesterday was one of those days. Actually until I left for a run about an hour ago, that was me. I’ve been stressed. My habit of saying “yes” to almost everything, without thinking through the logistics, came back to bite me. I leave for Europe in less than four weeks. The last month has been a manic effort Read more [...]
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Life in Oz, Yoga

The Very Short Life and Times of Me and Kombi Xee

23 Feb ’11 8 Comments Written by Juliet Bennett
Love is blind. It makes you do crazy things. Spontaneous things. Fun things. And sometimes really stupid things. I think when it hits you you know the pain that lies ahead, yet you jump in anyway. The first time I laid eyes on her I knew. Maybe it was her bright orange skin, maybe it was the way she popped her top on cue, or maybe it was her cute button nose. It was love at first sight. Like the trajectory of most love stories I figured this relationship would come to an end. But what I didn’t Read more [...]
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fear, kombi, Life in Oz, Narratology, optimal trajectory

Loving What Is

19 Feb ’11 3 Comments Written by Juliet Bennett
How often do you think or say “I love that I’m sick” or “I love it that I got a parking fine.” Never. Well I don’t. But that was the message I took away my conversation with three inspiring minds I had dinner with on Wednesday tonight: Love What Is. Now I know I’ve spoken about this before. I distinctly remember writing about the need to accept everything just as it is, when I thought I was going to die in the back of a crazy driver’s loud-honking car winding up the mountains in Read more [...]
Random Life Stuff, Truth
Life in Oz, Life philosophy

Parkinson’s Law: Using Time to Your Advantage

9 Feb ’11 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett
"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." This is known as "Parkinson's Law"[1]. I've been testing it out and so far it does seem true. I'm working more jobs than I ever have before: 4.5 days a week between two jobs, plus a part-time research degree, and working with an editor on my novel. And now I a new deadline for my research: 35,000 words by June. I'm six months into a MPhil that my supervisor is encouraging I upgrade to a PhD and get a scholarship so that I can Read more [...]
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Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Personal Statement

As a "non-indigenous" Australian living on what was once the land of the Cadigal and Wangal Wangal communities, I wish to acknowledge the inter-generational responsibility that I feel toward the colonial past. As a beneficiary of "White Australia", to the Eora people of Sydney, I request your forgiveness. I stand in solidarity with your rightful demands to self determination and active participation in governmental decisions, and I hope I may learn from your eco-spiritual connection. May we, as Tom Trevorrow of the Ngarrindjeri puts it, learn to 'respect, care and share' the gifts that our planet offers us.

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