Polish Man in New World

Thanks Kate for very stimulating comment. I think the last post was kind of scream for freedom : ) which develops after you are boiled again and again in the same kind of soup. It is like you want to rebel against the constraints. Nevertheless I am happy low-CO2 bicycle rider. Today I had my first ride after long winter. Sun was awesome. I took even a picture on the way showing nice contrast between empty biking road running along the busy 5 lanes Epping Road - all packed up with cars. I cant find wires at the moment to upload the photo. They are gone somewhere in one of the hundreds boxes around here. We move out from St Leonards. Tomorrow we rent a van and organize stuff for our new flat in Macquarie Park. This is going to be our first flat. Only us. Freedom :)

An ad on main page of my uni + interesting description made us go to the lecture of Peter Singer: http://www.pr.mq.edu.au/events/index.asp?ItemID=3834 Subconsciously I have more respect to the professors who try to look in a dissent way. Suit is a standard, they are usually shaved too : ). Peter Singer didn't bother to look good. But OK. I put off all the prejudices and I decided to stay and to listen to his lecture on "Climate Change". There was nothing new to me about this topic. I think I repeat myself if I say we witness the birth of new religion: Climatology. Peter is like one of its Apostles. He is vegan, he is enlightened. I had a fun on producing new Decalogue for him which fully follows his believes. 1. There is one Climate Change 2. You shall have no other fears 3. You shall not make yourself any other idol 4. Stop criticising Climate Change 5. Honour abortion and euthanasia - they reduce our population 6. You shall not kill any trees - they absorb dangerous CO...

Sarah Dunant a writer of "Sacred Heart" reveals in last Saturday Spectrum how contemporary art, religion and politics are tightly interwoven with each other. She does it by describing XVI Venice. I think the things has not been changed much in that matter. How could you explain fact that Australian Government spent more money on storing the carbon deep under than on reducing it? http://www.nature.com/climate/2007/0706/full/climate.2007.2.html So. Jewish religion developed the rule which prevent the believers from swine meat consumption. It was at the time of very dangerous parasite called trichina transmitted by pigs. No one knew it at that time. In the Middle Age religion put more constraints on people. Peasants were pressed down this way so that more goods would go to their Master, In Current Age things turned upside down. We deploy anything what makes us constrained. Consumption is guru. Contemporary art connects extremes. Behave as freely as you can because it brings ...

I do not comprehend the things. It is so hard to grasp this all mentally. 1. Ecology Discussing Table made me feel that phylogenetic biology is like walking across the labyrinth with too many exits : ) which lead to another labyrinths. 2. Minister Of Environment sits proudly in the hybrid car powered by power point. You simply have to plug it in. No one says that energy which is transferred through grid is produced by coal burning stations. The energy use efficiency of grid and electrical engine is never 100%. Greenhouse gas production is shifted away from the car to the country side :)))) 3. Lecture on modelling was kind of hard nut to crack for a beginner like me. We try to predict the the way the population of individual plants will grow. Very intelligent approach made by very intelligent people. Sometimes I wish someone proves chaos to be a driving force in a nature :))) 4. And the look of this girl from behind the arms of young man. A Poster on the train station in Chatswood. Mini...

I don't write anymore as many posts as I used to. My life got fully routinized. Monday and Tuesaday I take train to Macquarie University, Wednesday till Friday I take train to the one of the Nature Reserve I am assigned to by my second employer - Sydney Bush Regeneration Company. Even the book I read during my rides seems to be the same one since I started to work: It is about one older, fully routinzed guy from Bern in Switzerland who out of all sudden decides to change his everyday (rail)way. I am close to finish this book finally : ) - only around 200 pages to go. What makes us run like robots according to detailed daily schedule? Are we hypnotized so much by rising numbers on our account? Or it is a trade-off of so called secure life? Thanks God we have weekends. Thanks God we have death and art which shake us up : ) Thrill me, Kill me: U2:

I didn't buy today another 1kg of Sydney Morning Herald as I usually do on Saturdays. I found myself drowning in a high tide of news from the previous number. The essay of James Thornton in the section of Environment within Spectrum insertion I found very interesting. Climate change sounds almost like new religion. It is repeated over and over again around. If you do not worship climate change you have no right to call yourself an environmentalist. James visualize a new era ahead of us. We got tired with capitalism already who surprises us with global crisis, we got over the Middle Age with its stiff belief. I agree with him - We need new renaissance. What will it be? He tries to gather "wise" people together and produce new set of beliefs - a new story which would make sense of our lives. And this is the moment i start to protest. I don't agree to treat people as a mass of sheep. In the era of information we can not repeat it again. Let us develop our own free mind, ...

Someone has passed away from place where I work. Funeral took place today. I wont be never again passed by this person in the corridor. Death is so obvious and so old thing on Earth. Everything was told already about it. That is why maybe silence is the best reaction to that fact. Some traces are still visible, like one of the hibiscus she discovered in northern Australia. It still bears her name just like all Banksias around. The genus name honours the English botanist Sir Joseph Banks, who collected the first Banksia specimens in 1770, during James Cook's first expedition. I remember my last short visit in Poland in September 2008. One day I was talking to my grandma and nothing looked like she is is just about to die. Few days later I took part in organizing her funeral. People are like dreams. God is probably the one who is dreaming this dream.