The Native Iowan

Queensland is quite the place. I seriously don’t think you can find better weather anywhere on our globe.

Sure, I hear the peanut gallery… go ahead, have your laugh… but for me, QLD is the place to B.E.

Weather today is 29c/17c… 84f/64f. Great sleeping weather. Quite warm and sunny outside, but the pool is frigid cold. Very deceiving. Will sleep under a nice quilt tonight.

The best thing about autumn in QLD is that we don’t have to prepare for snow, for really, really cold. We might see freezing a few times a year, and we might get a bit of frost some mornings, but all in all my house stays open year round. We never turn on a heater.

Noting well though, Grace does like to take hot water bottles to bed with her.

Woke this morning in Toowoomba. Went up to see Mendoza, take him out to supper and spend the night at a nice hotel. Toowoomba is a cool, old QLD regional Capitol. Lovely architecture. Wide, clean streets, lots of cool cafes and eateries. Not a bad place to spend the night away from home.

We know Toowoomba well. Like Tville a lot. Sons Paul and Don went to boarding school here.

The school Mendoza attends was founded in 1875. Its very much a Harry Potter type brick and stone edifice. Large well cared for green grass and majestic old trees. The boys attend school in suit and tie.

Ive done the trip between here and Tville so many times it is like and old friend, or an old familiar pub. The 2.5hour drive is easy and enjoyable. A night in Tville is always gud, always nostalgic.

The world at large is rather confused. But, what is new?

I love it when one moralistic party or fraternity or sorority claim the high ground over another. Conservative v Liberal. Sexisit v feminist, racist v progressive. Black v White… an age old theme. Divide and conquer.

To own the moral high ground one must have “god on their side”, no? Both cannot claim sacred endorsement, or can they?

I think of Catsro who for years and years, decades and decades, gave the same, long, tiring speaches about “The Enemy”. His sacred high ground was nationalism… He died with the same invisible enemy at the gate as he fought against in the 50s.

But then, without an invisible enemy, Young Castro’s reason for controlling all and everything is questionable. Same goes for Old Castro.

Think about it… I have written about invisible enemies before. I don’t buy in. I prefer enemies I can see, and there are plenty of those about.

I see Australia shall soon implement “diversity quotas” in public work places. Your ability no longer matters. The best “man” does not win. Your hours of hard work and perseverance preparing may not have been positive, may not matter at all…if you do not meet the right criteria, the correct profile. What does matter is meeting the quota. Then everyone will eb happy and the world will be gud again.

But… I thought “Racial Profiling” was a mucho-negative thing?

But what do I know?

Im from QLD, and loving it!

Big SMiles

MoRe LaTer