HeyJaredGawenda Unleashed
Writer, editor, journalist, poet. Pieces about life, Australia and the world, on daily walks with my dog Rocky, along the inner city beach, which is my favourite spot in the world.
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The Sounds of Silence (opens the original)
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Three years ago on this day, I wrote a little essay about the fact that we Australians had voted by a fair margin not to amend the Constitution in order to give Indigenous Australians a real say in their future. I wrote of how devastated Marcia Langton looked when she was questioned about the result. She looked like her lifetime dream for real agency for indigenous Australians, had been shattered.The little essay started like this:A spring morning made in heaven, still and cool and faintly warm
The End of the World as we Know It (opens the original)
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I could start with the way the little brown dog, having lived with us these past three months while my son is away, has come, at the very least to like me quite a lot, so that on our morning walks, this morning included, she has no need for any other companion, happy, she is, to be in my company.But it is not the little brown dog that has occupied my thoughts in recent times, nor have I felt connected, not in that deep and affirming way, to the boardwalk along the beach and to the little white l
The Inquisition! The Inquisition! (opens the original)
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There were times when I conversed with Rocky in Yiddish. During our years together, I wrote Yiddish poetry. I did VCE Yiddish—the equivalent of what was called matriculation when I was young. I wrote a theatre piece about -dybbuks-Yiddish ghosts. Perhaps I performed it to Rocky on our morning walks.I wonder about all this as we walk, the little brown dog and I, and though I rarely do so, I am listening to Yiddish music through my headphones which means that instead of aimless memories -aimless i
Anger, Hatred and Conspiracy Theories: The rise of One Nation. (opens the original)
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A few days ago, I watched Tony Fauci being eviscerated at a US Senate committee hearing, watched him being accused of the most terrible things, as if, for instance, the way he had run the public health response to the Covid epidemic in America amounted to mass murder. The fury, the contempt of him, was hard to watch.And it was hard to watch the way he was rendered speechless by all this hatred and all these accusations, watch as he shrunk further and further down into his chair, as if he wanted
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (opens the original)
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The Jewish Museum in Melbourne had an event last night to mark Tu B’Av, the day of love in the Jewish tradition that follows Tisha B’Av, the day of mourning and fasting for the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem and other calamities that have befallen the Jewish people.I was one of five people asked to speak about love. It was a lovely event. Here is my contribution. I cried several times during my presentation and had to stop for a moment. Let me hasten to add that I did not cry floods of
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