STEVENS, Kym

ISBN 978-1-923265-40-0
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Intentional Intuition

 

Awareness is another way of knowing

VALE   |  Kym Stevens  | 1954 – 2024

About 12 years ago I saw a need for information regarding knowing amongst the community.

 
I wanted to keep spiritual learning, simple, heartfelt, loving, and practical. It started as a series of 33 flash cards.
 
I scrapped that format recently realising that just opening a page to a step and reading was how I had been reading for about 9 years!
 
I became distracted by life and other practicalities which put the book and its development on hold (I believe I was waiting for world events to rekindle the book’s purpose).
 
So here it is!
Kym Stevens, July 2024
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About the Author

Kym was a remarkable person who touched the lives of everyone he met and had an extraordinary impact on those around him. He was a source of strength and inspiration, always ready to offer support and guidance. Kym’s legacy is one of love and unwavering kindness to his family and friends.

Professionally, Kym had a varied work life, which really allowed him to gain experiences across fields that later helped him help others in so many ways. Importantly, it wasn’t his career that defined Kym. He was a devoted family member, a life partner with Christine, a father, and a friend. His generosity and compassion were evident in everything he did.

Kym grew up between Glenelg and the farm at Williams Town with his father, Rex, and Mother, Joyce. He would tell stories about life on the farm, setting rabbit traps, and working with his dog.

One of Kym’s proudest recent achievements was writing his books on intuition and soul mates. The first has now been published – details can be found on this page. The latter is being helped by family toward completion sometime in 2024.

These books combine his various lived experiences and some traditional science understandings, which are underpinned and elevated by spiritual guidance and interpretations of life. They aim to help people find their way. Kym considered these books to be part of the legacy he wanted to leave with all of us, and we are all the better for him doing so.

 

WATSON, Michael

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WITHOUT ANGELS

 

prose and poems

Without Angels is a series of small prose pieces written over the years since retiring in 1996.
It covers personal memories and observations of daily life.

About the Author

Michael Watson was born in 1942 in Melbourne.
After dropping out of High School he spent some years in farms around Victoria and New South Wales as a Jackeroo before returning to study at the age of 20. He completed a first class honours degree in Science at Monash University and went on to study for an MA at Princeton, New Jersey in 1967. The he met Nadine in 1969, whom he married in 1970. They have two children, Anne and David, and five grandchildren, Doug, Jack, Charlie, Juliette and Olivier.

WINTHROP, Ronald P

ISBN 978-1-923214-04-0
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How the Rich get richer while the Poor stay poor

 

A philosophical deconstruction of the Australian taxation system and its principles

Our Australian taxation system is an impressive clockwork-like machine with its origins in pre-Victorian times; designed on pre-Victorian principles and with pre-Victorian efficiency. Its workings today, even though falling far short of what is needed in this electronic age, are kept in working order at great expense to the Australian Community.

The author for 34 years was just a worker in Maintenance tasked with keeping everything running as previously. All his pleadings for updating and improving existing plant and functions were met with a glazed silence and just ignored. Instead he made notes of his observations and described in detail the issues causing concern and how a particular function might be made to work more efficiently or, in many cases, retired from service.

This book might easily be taken for a report by a Royal Commission set up for the purpose of looking into and reporting on its inequity, its inefficiency and its complexity. But such Royal Commissions and enquires were held and even examined the issues just mentioned but were unable to formulate the findings and recommendations our author makes in this book.

PEDRANA, Michael

ISBN 978-1-923156-72-2
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black sheep poems

dear reader,

we are strangers you and i me a farmer of words all tangled from the violent paddock and criminal path of my broken existence and you searching for the escape only poems can give in between the humdrum and echo of your routine life i pity you as i pity me we never asked for words to undo this noose where we search for meanings to carry us from time i give to you the untamed weather inside the painted word drawings of my heart and you opening up this book allow me to exist

dear reader

i thank you for that for here i ask you to read this unrehearsed broken tune of poems from your heart (where true thoughts are made) while casting your anchor outside the deaf and desolate unreachable sharpness that limps your routine i do not require your like or dislike of my melted tune
here is no audience i seek dear reader only hands to open the vault of this book where now i breathe dear reader we are strangers you and i.

About the Author

At 12 Mike Pedrana wanted to be a poet. ‘It’s not just the poetry but the poets themselves I could relate to. The more I read about them, their genius, their madness, their poverty, their escapisms, their exile, and their suicides, the more I knew I was one.

Anyone can write a poem. But not everyone is a Poet’. (Phone Interview | Roebourne Prison 1991)

BENNETT, Jeannie

ISBN: 978-1-923265-05-9
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Fellowship, Friendship and Fun

 

The Charles Darwin Probus Club Member Biographies

Embark on a captivating journey into the lives of the Charles Darwin Probus club members with Fellowship, Friendship, and Fun.

Discover the remarkable interconnectedness of these diverse individuals as their paths intersect across various stages of life, from shared experiences in the Northern Territory to common pursuits in employment and business ventures.

Nurses, educators, engineers, administrators, and Defence personnel– the members represent a tapestry of backgrounds and occupations that unite and enrich this vibrant community.

Explore fi rsthand accounts that enrich historical narratives, revealing the resilience, camaraderie, and joy that defi ne their collective narrative.

NHIAL, David Jock

ISBN 978-1-923265-39-4
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SOUTH SUDAN

 

THE WORLD’S YOUNGEST NATION

South Sudan: The World’s Youngest Nation is full of fast facts and cultural information aimed to help South Sudanese people who are living in Australia connect to their homeland’s past and present. This guide highlights the country’s journey, its cultural heritage in a quick yet comprehensive way.

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About the Author

David Jock Nhial is a dedicated and compassionate social worker and author with extensive experience in helping individuals and communities. With a strong academic background, including a bachelor’s degree in Humanities, a Master’s Degree in Social Work, and various other qualifications related to child wellbeing and youth work, he is known for his empathy, excellent communication skills, and deep commitment to social justice. His achievements include publishing two children’s books, contributing chapters to notable publications, and being a finalist in the 2012 Pride of Australia Medal in the Fair Go category.

David conducted extensive research, including surveys with South Sudanese youth in Australia, to understand their struggles with cultural identity and adaptation. He found that many young South Sudanese in Australia have limited knowledge about their homeland. The information written here seeks to bridge that gap by providing valuable insights into South Sudan’s culture, history, and the journey to independence.

Through his book, South Sudan – The World’s Youngest Nation, David aims to inspire young readers to embrace their cultural heritage and understand the importance of unity and diversity. This work seeks to educate young readers about the Republic of South Sudan, which became an independent nation after separating from Sudan. David hopes to empower the next generation of South Sudanese youth, particularly those living in the diaspora, by helping them understand their cultural heritage, the history of their nation, and the significance of its independence.