DERWENT GREY
Contact sport is the purest form of mindfulness. People spend hours seeking 'presence' in peaceful environments, forgetting that violence is the quickest way to the moment. Light some scented candles, concentrate on your breathing, and try slip into a meditative state, or just run the ball at a 100kg butcher’s apprentice with anger management issues and a penchant for the shoulder charge; only one guarantees you’ll forget Karen from Accounts. The sole worry is you may forget her permanently, if the apprentice from Bowral wanders a bit high ...
AJP McClintock
Book One of the Mortarboard Mysteries
Woof!
“Soul, what are you up to?” Bruce asks, in the middle of Eden, having finally caught up with his dog … Soul drops his paw, followed by his tail. Finally, he lowers his head. He doesn’t like what he’s found.
“What is it, boy? Oh, no ...” His eyes follow drag marks through the long grass to a shoe, a woman’s shoe, hanging from her toes, another bare foot beside …
A J P McClintock
‘In the inner suburbs of Brisbane, no longer is it birdsong that awakens us. Too often it is the growl of a chainsaw and the roar of the stump grinder.’
In Brisbane 2050: Nirvana or Nightmare, A J P McClintock revisits a number of very sensible proposals that those in Council offices and the ‘Tower of Power’ have quietly dropped into the ‘too hard’ basket. He also suggests some new ideas to help them on their way.
Physical copies only. Available in several bookshops around Brisbane, or for $29.99 AUD (plus $9.99 AUD postage to anywhere in Australia) by emailing mcclintock.ink@gmail.com