2017 Christmas Letter The Very Good; the Very Bad and the Very Ugly: A 2017 Report Card. 1. The Very Good Setsuko Thurlow (nee Nakamura) was 13 years old when the US dropped the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Unlike thousands of other,s including 351 of her school mates, Setuko survived! She recounted her experience: "On August 6, 1945, I was a 13-year-old grade 8 student at Hiroshima Jogakuin and a member of The Student Mobilization Program. I was one o...

2017 Christmas Letter The Very Good; the Very Bad and the Very Ugly: A 2017 Report Card. 1. The Very Good Setsuko Thurlow (nee Nakamura) was 13 years old when the US dropped the Atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Unlike thousands of other,s including 351 of her school mates, Setuko survived! She recounted her experience: "On August 6, 1945, I was a 13-year-old grade 8 student at Hiroshima Jogakuin and a member of The Student Mobilization Program. I was one o...

According to Facebook there are over 200 friends, or followers, or readers, or 'linked folk' or whoever, waiting anxiously for a long overdue blog from me! Well, in this age of exaggeration, "fake news", "post what you like" and "hacking", I am not sure just what the post means, except to say, how does Facebook keep track of what is posted - how this happens is a mystery with over two billion subscribers. And in the words of the bard "a little scary". Not even ...

Yesterday I tested my legs with a 15 K walk from here (La Neyliere) through the town of Saint Symphorien-sur-Coise and up the other side to the Chapelle of La Salette. There is a photo attached; then a light lunch at the only cafe in the village. On my return journey I photographed cows sleeping lying totally flat out, something I have never seen in Australia. And then a squash trying to escape through a chicken wire fence. (See photos of both.) As I pas...

Good morning, from what must be the vestibule of heaven as opposed to Dante's vestibule of hell. The place, La Neyliere, is one hour from the city of Lyons, a place purchased by our Founder in 1850, for retreats and recuperation for missionaries returning from the Pacific. He died here and is entombed in the chapel awaiting to be declared a saint! The weather, ever since I arrived here five days ago, has been idyllic. Beautiful sunny Autumn days, moderate temp...