News of Ev and Dennis

Ev and Dennis are separated.

As these pages show, we share many values and proudly built history. Meeting in maturity, with complex lives and strong minds, is not easy.

Some difficulties in personal dialogue led us to live at different addresses in April 2008.

We remain friends, linking also to each other's children.

Ev can be emailed at evpet [at] exemail.com.au

Dennis is at www.aplaceof.info and shoalhaven2020.net

Do also read on below ... newzof us at February 2008.

ALSO.... some 2008 items are here.

 


in the Morton National Park, 30km west of Nowra, 50km from our Tomerong home, 2 September 2007

Seldom do people have the opportunity to live through peaceful major turning points in national history.
We have experienced such a thing in Australia in February 2008.
Please click here to read and here to listen to Prime Minister Rudd's apology speech of 13 February 2008
... we were in this crowd on the day, with family and friends.
Also at the same link is a commentary on the speech and next steps.

crowd photo 13 February

Web sites hosted by us
Local
• Tomerong community web site
• New Bush Telegraph newspaper
• The Australian Youth Against Landmines Association

International
After seeking in 2003-2004 to influence national security policy I reached the view that this was unlikely to occur soon and that people-to-people community empowerment projects were important. Not easy to shift community thought from 'hand-out' to 'hand-up' (Noel Pearson's language); not easy to shift the internet from 'talk-talk, see my tits' (metaphorically or literally) to 'talk--plan-build-empower', but we have to start...
• Nyalebe - a small community in East Congo, wanting skills for young women and men in the aftermath of war and disease
• The Acoke Rural Development Initiative, northern Uganda
• Fondation Chirezi — for a non-killing society in central Africa, with projects for women, education and youth — see especially the women's portal.
• News from Our Congo
• Art from Our Congo
• Nairobi Youth Sports Foundation
Family stuff
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Photodiary since 2003

ev and dennis
• Information for WWOOFers
• Our old home page (to August 2007)
• 'Margaret's place' – the original 'aplace'
• Liz's place of stories
• How Liz at 19 articulated values Dennis could only hope to articulate and share
   
 

 
   
Writing and other projects
• Support for Australians dealing with brain tumour
• Country Viewpoint
• The search for chronic wellness — 1990s writings on health
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Australia's destructive national security policy in recent years... we may be in better country since the November 2007 elections

You can see here my speeches and writing in 2003-2004 and views in 2007. See left column for where I have placed energy since 2004.

Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose can serve paradoxically to encourage more fascism at home and abroad. Democracy is a state of grace that is attained only by those countries who have a host of individuals not only ready to enjoy freedom but to undergo the heavy labor of maintaining it.
Norman Mailer 2003. Norman Mailer died 10 November 2007.
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


other people's lives...
It is possible to use the internet to work with people in far and difficult places, not just sending charity, but assisting them to find their own power and community capacity. And possible to learn how remarkable and capable and wise such people can be.

other people's lives