To a gentle 2012
Harry | December 31, 2011
Happy New Year to Friends and Family, past, present and future. And to our wider family. May 2012 be a gentler year for all. Tweet
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Avondale, Tasmania
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: I hope all are well, long time no hearing from you and you're missed.
: Hi Harry
Have you seen this?
http://www.earthlings.com/earthlings/video-full.php
Its beautiful, and painful at the same time....and worth the watch.
Hope this finds you well my friend.
Nikki: If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama
: Human morality loses nothing when it expands the scope of its ethical concern. Kindness and peace toward other living beings will never deprive the human [...]
: Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. --BRADLEY MILLAR
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Family (… or is that pack?)
Harry | September 25, 2011
I’ve been thinking a lot about Family lately – who wouldn’t after picking up a wandering little four-legged boy at 2.30 in the morning who should have been sleeping (safely, lovingly) at home with his family? (Boy?! Don’t you mean dog?) And that thinking intensified when, after almost 3 weeks, his ‘owner’/ carer/ family finally contacted [...]
Monty (a short story about a wandering dog)
Harry | September 12, 2011
So there we are returning from a friend’s party at 2.30 am, driving in a convoy of 2, when we find this little fellow: Monty. As we drove up Summerleas Road this without-a-care in the world character was jogging up one side of the road, peeing on a lamppost, casually crossing over the road, peeing [...]
This is not a vegan blog …
Harry | August 1, 2011
A Gentle Place was not set up to be a vegan blog. There are already plenty of those out there. They inspire me, educate me, challenge me, support me, nourish me - just last night we had guests over for dinner: Moroccan vegan meal prepared by Sue and Vegan Black Bean Brownies prepared by your [...]
Is ‘humane’ killing of animals for our use OK?
Harry | July 23, 2011
Humane is a key word whenever the discussion of dietary habits comes up; we’re repeatedly told that as long as an animal is killed humanely it’s OK to eat them. Mmmm … something doesn’t seem right there. It’s OK to bring billions of birds and animals into this world for the sole sake of an [...]
The happiest city in the world
Harry | November 30, 2010
Well I’m back in Dhaka having just spent 24 hours in what was voted the happiest city in the world in the 2006 World Happiness Survey – Rajshahi, Bangladesh. In the same survey Bangladesh was voted the happiest country. So what’s Bangladesh got that other places like the United States (ranked 46) and Great Britain [...]
Species Interaction (as seen from up high)
Guest | September 26, 2010
From the window of my lounge room I have the most magnificent view of a valley floor stretching out below. An aerial view of the property Avondale. This may well be a “gentle place” but we must not confuse it with being a quiet, peaceful place; so often the interactions of the residents can be [...]
When to give up?
Harry | August 21, 2010
When do you give up on an animal? Or perhaps better worded: When do you help an animal to move on? And why? It was Dawn Watch pointing me to an article in Parade magazine titled Can you teach a bad dog new tricks? that got me thinking about it. In the article Jim Gorant discusses [...]
Pubs, pots of beer and firepots
Harry | July 23, 2010
(Given the title of this site, and my previous posts, some of you may feel pubs are a strange thing to write about. But gentleness, in its multitude of forms, is often found in unexpected places …) I was never particularly partial to pubs. I associated them with sad and sorry men, loose inebriated women [...]
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