After a month in America, this is what I’ve learned:
· American toilets must have been designed by a woman. It is impossible to pee in them standing up without splashing your leg.
· Preconceived ideas are just ideas.
· Between black and white is not grey. Between black and white is the entire spectrum of colour.
· Just like everywhere else, American people are incredibly warm and giving.
· Nobody is warm and giving if you’re not.
· Americans are doing their best.
· Nobody is perfect.
· My life hasn’t changed because Bush won the election. Nor has it changed because Howard did.
· Bush and Howard are doing their best.
· Nobody is perfect.
· Life is amazing.
· The world really is wonderful.
· Do yourself a favour. Whenever you can.
· Kindness is contagious.
· Americans love Australians.
· Questions cease when life becomes a mystery.
· If you want an energy crisis, equip every home with a dryer and none with washing lines.
· Americans like big vehicles. This probably doesn’t help either.
· Where are all the guns?
· On average for me, two out of three American homes do not lock their doors.
· They don’t always lock their cars either.
· In the Land of the Free, nothing is.
· Privatising phone companies is not necessarily a good idea.
· Home is where the heart is, and heart is happy to move.
· Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans, only if you’re making other plans.
· All things must pass.
· I think therefore I am. Without thought, what am I?
· Thinking really is dangerous.
· The best thing about America is being here.
· Cheap labour could be America’s greatest resource.
· A fair go could be Australia’s
· God is in everything I see, whatever God may be.
· So who am I to question or doubt what I see?
· If there is a battle between Man and Nature, Nature is winning. Any way you look at it, She cannot lose.
· I am incredibly fortunate.

Thank you.

My four brothers: Steve (the older one), and from the left Nicholas, Daniel and Michael.

Me (in front) at Bill's place in La Jolla just after the School for The Work with (clockwise from left) Eileen, Bill, Valli and Don.

Would you give this man a Greencard? Cowlesy took this photo of my for my Greencard app. If you think this looks bad, you should see his!