What Simple Pleasures Means To Me…
To me, simple pleasures are the things in life that make time in this world sweet. It’s time spent with...
A Simple Pleasures Poetry Round-Up
Simple pleasures are arguably created in the act of noticing, issuing from attentiveness to what is good and lovely and...
A Childlike Approach to Life…and Mozart
Growing up, my piano teacher would paraphrase 20th century pianist Artur Schnabel, saying “Mozart is too easy for children, but...
A Few of Our Favourite Simple Pleasures…
Whiskers on kittens and warm woollen mittens… these are a few of our favourite simple pleasures. In a world filled...
2022 Anthology Submissions Now Open!
The Sydney University Anthology is back for 2022 with a new theme and in need of new voices! Published annually...
Caught in the Net
Humans are innately social creatures, since birth and a young age, our development is centred around connections with others – first familial relationships, and then larger social networks in which we belong. We thrive off such relationships, and when they’re removed that can lead to problems of loneliness, as we touched on in last week’s blog post.
Feeling Off the Grid
e a vital part of human life. I’m not talking about Instagram or Twitter, but rather the more profound, timeless interpersonal bonds between people. For many, the pandemic, and global experiences of isolation and lockdowns, have illuminated the essential role these social networks play in our wellbeing.
Networks of the Mind
I like to think of the mind as a network, a web of thoughts, ideas and memories that interconnect and weave together to create one whirring system. It is a network of ideas constantly buzzing between one thought and the next. We can often get lost in our mind as an insignificant thought can take you down a long and winding path that leads to great things or maybe just a dead end.
Community Protest – Writing Prompt
When I think of networks, I think of communities; the groups that we fit in with, sharing our experiences, values or beliefs. When communities and groups come together to protest, they can change minds, create action and produce networks.
Networks – when they don’t function the way we think they do
Networks surround us on a daily basis, and they come in many shapes and forms. Our first thought when we hear the word ‘networks’ can be technological in nature, telephone networks, broadcasting networks, network cables, etc; however, there are other forms that networks can take such as the social networks we form within our communities and the ecological networks that shape our natural world.