Megan,
Don't sit back for fear of causing offence. There are many non-Aboriginal as well as
Aboriginal people
on this list and unless we speak to each other we won't learn about each other. It is
only by
communicating that we can help change the way things are.
It is only natural that not a
Dear Trudy, Thanks for your note and welcome.
I was sitting here feeling really uncomfortable about maybe causing
offence, taking up too much space, imagining others saying "just like
a white person, wanting to take over the discussion".
We have so much to learn
Your welcome really
Friends,
As a Buddhist I have misgivings about the appearance of a reference to God in
our constitutional preamble. But then so what! How important is this 'preamble'
going to be: written by a failed suburban solicitor, a man whose autobiography
had to be written by ghost writers and which wa
Hello, all.
This is my first foray into any discussion on this list - which may
or may not be a good sign (I tend to talk too much). Still, I've
been listening for a while now and I'm starting to feel a bit like a
'voyeur', just reading your comments, and not giving of myself.
As a sin
Megan, I don't have time right now to do your epistle justice with a reply but may I
say Welcome!
Feel free to 'talk too much' as much as you like. You raise many points that require
discussion
and I hope many will be spurred on to do so. Even those who are hanging back, just
lurking. ;-)
