Ideas, notes, and various jottings
Rocio, Grace, Baby Hannah and I went to the Fish Markets for lunch today (it was very nice, by the way). On the way home while driving through Pyrmont Hannah needed a feed, so we pulled over. Rocio spotted a nearby cafe, so we went there.
Rocio ordered an organic lemonade (whatever the hell that is), Grace had a babychino (pictured, left), and I had a banana smoothie.
Our new daughter Hannah was born on September 19 - her due date. Here she is at about a month old with her big sister Grace, who happens to be turning two tomorrow.
My wife Rocio recently had some photos printed, including the one below of herself and our 18-month-old daughter Grace.
Of course I know that I’m a very lucky man, but this photo really brought home just how lucky I am.
Here’s a very short story I wrote recently, after not having done very much creative writing for some time.
I visit Isaac every year on his birthday.
I bring him a gift and tell him how much I miss him, and how much I hope that he will get better soon so that he can come and live with me in the outside world.
Every would-be fiction writer dreams of winning the Vogel prize (an Australian literary prize for young unpublished writers). I’m no exception, though of course, now that I’m 35, I’m too old to enter, and I have to cross that particular fantasy off my list.
This is a very short story I wrote in 2003 somewhere on a train in Europe. It takes place in a European capital some time in the future.
Vaclav had been in hospital for the three weeks. His doctor assured him he didn’t have long to live, and that everything would soon be fine.
I wrote this short piece in 2002. I thought of it recently, and found it on the backup of the computer I had at the time.
No one told me Paul Lyneham died. I only found out after his widow wrote a book about her life with him - about two years after his death. I heard her interviewed on the radio.
I asked my work colleagues whether they had heard that Paul Lyneham died.
The Lovers by Rene Magritte
While doing a project for Organisational Analysis and Design (OAD) during my MBA, I came across this quote, which really resonated with me at the time, and since:
"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
Marcel Proust
I’m making pospisil.com.au a personal blog.
Please go to www.congentinsights.com for my business-related blog.
BLORGE.com is a pet project I’ve been working on for the past few months. What I’m doing is setting up a family of blogs that provide entertaining and informative content under a common overarching global brand - Blorge.
