crossroads

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'Stand at the crossroads and look,
ask for the ancient paths,
ask where the good way is, and walk in it,
and you will find rest for your souls.'

Jeremiah 6:16

The unconventional David Walsh

Reflection MONA by Tracey Croke, Flicker creative commons

'I feel fear ... it's very rational that I feel fear in terms of a biological response. It makes sense to have built into me something that makes me fear death ... The sheer fact that I can face death is a huge privilege ... the chance of me being here is astronomical ... I had to go through incredibly fortuitous process to have the opportunity to contemplate death ... so I hope that I'm rational enough that  every time I think - soon I'll be dead -  I think, but right now I'm well and truly alive. That's the great privilege of facing death, having the opportunity to contemplate it in the first place ... '

November 2014, David Walsh, founder of Museum of Old and New Art.
Interviewed by Phillip Adams at Sydney Writers' Festival
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/latenightlive/public-forum-with-david-walsh-and-phillip-adams/5960560

J B Priestley

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'As we grow older we are apt to forget that the despair of the young is even more gigantic and immediately overwhelming than their hopefulness: we never again face such towering blank walls of misery.'