Sheelagh Wegman
Press Service International
Sheelagh Wegman is a freelance writer and editor. She is in the community of St David’s Cathedral in Hobart and lives in the foothills of kunanyi/Mt Wellington.
Sheelagh Wegman’s previous articles may be viewed at http://www.pressserviceinternational.org/sheelagh-wegman.html
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Soup
Recently I read an engrossing book about a young boy with Asperger’s Syndrome. One of this boy’s obsessions is that he will not allow any one kind of food on his plate to touch another. Carrots must maintain their distance from peas; peas must never collide with chips.
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K.I.S.S.
Organisers and managers know the value of the K.I.S.S. technique – Keep It Simple, Stupid. But how suspicious we are of simple solutions.
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Crumbs
Some time ago I was asked to do an interview with a dear friend, an octogenarian I have known for a very long time.
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Watch! Watch me!
It’s a familiar situation in the musical world. ‘Watch! Watch! Watch me!’ The agitated conductor shouts at the choir and orchestra, pointing to his baton: ‘You have to watch my beat!’
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Kindness
There used to be a bumper sticker that said something along the lines of ‘Practise random acts of kindness’.