Finding joy in the everyday

The tomb of the Unknown Soldier, National War Memorial, Canberra (all photography by Joluise) excerpt from the Remembrance Day speech at the funeral service of the unknown Australian soldier   by The Hon. P. J. Keating MP (formal 
Prime Minister of Australia) ( link  to full speech) 11 November 1993 W e do not know this Australian's name and we never will. We do not know his rank or his battalion. We do not know where he was born, nor precisely how and when he died. We do not know where in Australia he had made his home or when he left it for the battlefields of Europe. We do not know his age or his circumstances – whether he was from the city or the bush; what occupation he left to become a soldier; what religion, if he had a religion; if he was married or single. We do not know who loved him or whom he loved. If he had children we do not know who they are. His family is lost to us as he was lost to them. We will never know who this...

For those who have read my blogs for a while will know that I have a fascination with numbers - statistics.  Some might find it a little strange that a woman is so interested in numbers, I wasn't always until I started to work with statistics in 1990.  I have continued ever since.  Statistics tell us so much about the society that we live in and records the changes that are occurring, allowing us to measure if things are improving or not!  Without statistics it would be almost impossible to know if the economy was running as it should . . . statistics are critical to any government or business today.  I love social statistics, I'm no economist and in many of my blogs I have shared a range of social statistics with you.  This is perhaps one reason why going to work is not too painful, I spend my days "playing" with numbers. This might completely bore some people, but I find it fascinating.  Strange, I know. . . for this reason I wanted to share with y...