Hi all, there haven’t been many wonderposts of late. Brooke has been working and grieving, as previously posted. Apparently she is soon to receive payment for some 160 hours of overtime accrued over six weeks! Now if that does not inspire wonder (and horror)! I worked 11 days straight and spent the last three days of that week crashing and burning. And some of those days were only 4hrs long, then on call. So I don’t know how people do it!
Overall, I am feeling rather more resilient and cheerful simply because the days are longer and warmer. I walk home in the sunshine, what bliss!
Well- it is mostly warmer. The weather does seem a bit haywire, with cold days in spring and hot days in winter. Is this attributable to climate change? Apparently this is difficult to predict (as opposed to lot major weather events, like cyclones and droughts). But our farmers, especially in Queensland, will likely struggle through drought conditions a more often in the future and we are likely to notice a drop in rainfall, even here in Sydney.
Some incredible things have been happening lately, as many of you are likely aware!
For one, the traction #docs4change has gained on getting kids off Nauru! How much we can achieve if we work together! The work of Drs Crammond and Townsend spearheading this has been inspirational. Read the open letter to Scott Morrison here and contact the email docs4nauru@gmail.com if you want a carefully prepared email template to send on to your federal member!
I mean, we have to get them ALL off Manus and Nauru, not just the kids. It is kind of ridiculous. As illustration, Behrouz Boochani’s recent tweets:
Similarly, I had presumed Behrouz Boochani’s book, No Friend But the Mountains, had been well publicised and must be soaring up the best sellers list. However, discussions with Brooke made me realise it may not be well known outside a specific niche. The book was written text by text from Manus prison, then painstakingly translated from Farsi to English and documents his day to day experience in eloquent, poetic style. Please read it, please share it with your friends. The key to changing minds and hearts is re-humanising these people in the collective psyche.
And can you believe what has been happening in Wentworth! We have a progressive, lesbian female ex- president of the AMA in australian parliament! Let us hope she lives up to expectations and that she signals a shift away from climate denial, “it is ok to be white”, personality politics and other such tortures we have been subjected to of late. If you, like me, are keeping up in the mins before the next patient or whilst catching a toilet break, here is an excellent interview.
Is this all a little too intense? Here is are some photos of my ridiculous outfit going to Cher. Does anyone else dress in theme to concerts? Noone else seemed to get the memo at this one…
Also a wonder: that she can dance, sing and look so slim and fit at 72. She must be blessedly free from severe OA of the knees and hips and frozen shoulder!
And here are some shots of the brilliant spring flowers (addendum: thank goodness for rhinocort).
I also loved this image which is doing the rounds at the mo…
