John Spradbrow

Let’s remember all the victims today. Let’s also remember the families and friends who are still grieving today.

This, from Bob Carr, is an extraordinary book. A roadmap through thickets of grief. Deeply moving, and well beyond politics.

Even the smallest acts of #kindness can help to fill up the ‘jar’ of others and your own! Let’s #makeadifference ! 🥰

When my fellow Marines and I were being shot at by al-Qaeda and ISIS, I kept thinking, “if only we had a ballroom.”

Yesterday the US defended free navigation, accused Iran of behaving like pirates & said over 100 states are calling on them to re-open the strait Last year 165 states demanded the US end its blockade of Cuba. But instead of doing that the US started seizing ships. Like pirates

Trump’s demand for Australians’ biometric (facial/voice/finger print/morphology) recognition data is currently being processed by our Commonwealth Government. This MUST NOT HAPPEN. Our Five Eyes security alliance already has a data base/risk assessment of any persons of interest.

Here’s an “Australian Story”.

Totalmente oficial: Tras la entrevista de 60 Minutes a Trump, la esposa del Gobernador de California, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, lo llama de perturbador y manda comunicado. "Mi familia y yo vimos la entrevista de 60 Minutes con Donald Trump y Norah O’Donnell anoche, y quedamos impactados. Ver a un presidente hablarle a una periodista mujer con ese nivel de desprecio —y una clara aversión a los hechos— es perturbador, aunque en este punto no es inesperado dada su pauta de comportamiento." "Pero ese es el problema. Porque cuando ese nivel de falta de respeto desde el cargo más alto del país se repite, comienza a filtrarse en nuestra cultura y a definir cómo se ve el poder, moldeando la forma en que los niños y muchos hombres ven a las mujeres y las niñas y lo que llegan a aceptar como comportamiento normal."

This from Stan Grant 💕#WelcomeToCountry

Bravo, the Victorian RSL. And bravo again, the crowd at the Essendon Collingwood game who so wonderful cheered the Welcome to Country a few hours after the yobbo nut-jobbos had disgraced themselves at the Melbourne and Sydney dawn services. #Auspol

Who agrees? 👍

The state of teacher wellbeing in 2026 isn’t a future problem, it’s happening now Workload is rising, time is disappearing & more teachers are questioning how long they can stay Download: eu1.hubs.ly/H0tkkhm0 #edtech #school #education #teacherwellbeing #teachers

Important! 🪞

Our mission calls us to be “bridges” and “channels” of #Peace, even before trying to build it with our limited human efforts, especially in the face of those who do not seek it as a gift from God. May the grace that comes from heaven find its way through the folds of history. vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

Pope Leo in audience with the Archbishop of Canterbury: “As my beloved predecessor, Pope Francis, said to the Primates of the Anglican Communion in 2024, ‘it would be a scandal if, due to our divisions, we did not fulfil our common vocation to make Christ known.’  For my part, I add that it would also be a scandal if we did not continue to work towards overcoming our differences, no matter how intractable they may appear.” vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

When the pre-frontal cortex senses psychological or physiological threat,emotional regulation,thinking, planning & problem solving shifts towards survival mode. (FIGHT,FLIGHT, FREEZE) Brains will not learn,absorb or process information effectively under these conditions. 🧠🌱

Carl Jung wrote: "The more intelligent and self-aware a person is, the more they suffer from the general unconsciousness of society." This is not a badge of honor. It is a recognition of the weight carried by those who cannot unsee what they have already seen. This is the psychology of the deep thinker and if you recognize yourself here, this one is for you: The architecture of alienation. It starts early. The child who asks why adults say one thing and do another. The one whose questions are always labeled as "overthinking." Nietzsche described these people as "free spirits" — essential for progress, but wandering in a wilderness everyone else refuses to enter. Research by Dr. Elaine Aron suggests approximately 20% of the population processes information more deeply and notices subtleties others completely miss. In a world that rewards speed, this depth can feel like a disability. The frequency of truth. Deep thinkers operate on a different wavelength, the frequency of truth rather than the frequency of comfort. Most people live without ever questioning the fundamental assumptions of their own existence. But the deep thinker has glimpsed behind the veil. Like Plato's prisoner who escapes the cave and returns to share what he saw only to be rejected and called a troublemaker—the deep thinker carries the burden of the witness. They see the masks, the exploitation, and the pain that everyone else has agreed to ignore. The emotional sponge. Deep thinkers do not just observe emotions, they absorb them. They feel the anxiety of a stranger as if it were their own. They perform enormous amounts of invisible emotional labor — checking in on people, listening, supporting, acting as the unofficial therapist of every room they enter. And yet the relationship is almost always asymmetric. They give at a depth most people cannot match. They live with the quiet loneliness of being the strong one, the one everyone leans on, but no one thinks to ask: "Are you okay?" The mask of normalcy. To survive, many deep thinkers learn to wear a mask, laughing at jokes they do not find funny, feigning interest in conversations that feel hollow, modulating their intensity to avoid being too much. This is not deception. It is survival. But the cost is enormous. Maintaining the split between the complex private self and the simple public self is exhausting. And the mask, while protective, makes true connection nearly impossible. You cannot be fully known while hiding. The wounded healer. Jung wrote about this archetype; the person who transforms their own brokenness into a source of healing for others. The wounds of rejection and misunderstanding become sources of deep compassion. The person who has felt most unseen becomes the most gifted at seeing others. But the challenge is learning to give without emptying yourself completely, to love others without losing yourself in the process. The alchemy of solitude. For deep thinkers, there is a crucial distinction between loneliness and solitude. Loneliness is the pain of disconnection from others. Solitude is the joy of connection with yourself. In solitude, the deep thinker finally breathes. The noise of the world falls away. The internal landscape becomes clear. Isolation transforms into introspection and that is where the real work happens. The revolutionary act of authenticity. In a world that profits from insecurity, choosing to be genuinely yourself is a radical act. When a deep thinker chooses authenticity over performance, it creates space for others to do the same. It gives people permission to be real in a culture that rewards shallow. If you recognize yourself in any of this, stop apologizing for your depth. You are not broken. You are not too much. You are not too sensitive. You are awake in a world that prefers to stay asleep. Your sensitivity is a superpower. Your intensity is a strength. ✨🙌🏾💫

So many times in our lives we wish for clear calm waters, yet our day at hand might be rough and stormy. God help me to take each day as it is, not demanding any more. Let each day be your gift to me.

The Holy Spirit unites people and vocations in freedom, so that no one may live only for themselves any longer. Each Sunday calls us out of the “tomb” of isolation and seclusion, so that we may meet in the garden of communion where the Risen One watches over us. vatican.va/content/leo-xi…

I may be wrong. But when i see an Australian flag raised in front of a house or on a big SUV...i purcieve someone from the far right movement. With similar views to Trump or One Nation policies. Anyone else? #auspol.