I love the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, and have done so for most of my life. His music seems to resonate with what lies deeply within, almost as if I hear it in my bone marrow. His music seems to appear on occasions where I would not have expected it, but find it has … Continue reading Vaughan Williams and Me
Author: Bill Pigott
Now an octogenarian, privileged to live in a log house in a forest clearing on a rural 5 acre block near Berry NSW, observing a rainforest in transition, being grounded and connected to an amazing space
Rose Petals, Music and Connectedness
On the train home from a day with a dying mother; 26/04/2005 My mother lived in Sydney and at the time was emerging from a serious illness. Her doctors had told us she does not have long to go. April 2005 I am on the train, going home from a day with my dying mother, which … Continue reading Rose Petals, Music and Connectedness
A “Three Buddha Farewell” Revisited.
January 2020: I am revisiting this piece from 2001 as a result of a whole new perspective given to these three Buddhas by the second of our three sons, who helped us choose items of significance or treasures to pack in our car, in readiness for evacuation should a bushfire threaten our property, a log … Continue reading A “Three Buddha Farewell” Revisited.
Advice to self: action I can take
Thoughts arising as we pass through a Bushfire Emergency on the South Coast of NSW, January 2020: I see around me people who are overwhelmed and overwrought, dissipating their energy on things that are beyond their control, blaming others, generating anger which they spray on others, catastrophising and immobilising themselves and at times those around … Continue reading Advice to self: action I can take
A Birthday Recollection: Mother
Birthday Recollection I wrote this short piece on the birth anniversary of my mother, Betty Gorrie, June 26th 2018. She would have been 104.
EIGHT PIECES: Written treasures or “pieces of eight”
EIGHT PIECES by Bill Pigott Written treasures or “pieces of eight” Wishing to Share Back in 1999, as I prepared to move from Nepal to Cambodia I wrote the following: “In that space between assignments, at rest, but awake and alive with thoughts memories and ideas, I found myself wanting to respond to the many … Continue reading EIGHT PIECES: Written treasures or “pieces of eight”
Stories from “the field”:
Seeds are sown and from their fields, the results are harvested. Like the lilies of the field, there are so many stories that can be gathered from a person’s life, especially when much of it has been in, as they call it, ‘the field’. When I worked with the World Health Organisation (WHO), as I … Continue reading Stories from “the field”:
On the Road in India: 1997
A short drive to India. Kathmandu to Delhi and Jaipur and back, November 1997 In November 1997, we spent just over two weeks in India. As the World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative in Nepal, I was to attend the annual meeting of the WHO Country Representatives of the South East Asian Region in the WHO … Continue reading On the Road in India: 1997
From 2015: 50 Years with MB BS.
Sydney University 1965 MEDICAL GRADUATES BIOGRAPHIES Bill Pigott’s Five Decades with his MB BS: Medicine has given me a marvellous 50 years. Back in January 1965, who’d have thought it would lead me to remote and troubled corners of the world, meeting Kings and Prime Ministers, persuading Ministers of Health to do the right thing, … Continue reading From 2015: 50 Years with MB BS.
Reflections on Landcare:
Bill Pigott April 2018 ... ... a personal perspective from a Landcare Elder Landcare is a relationship, a process and a community. Landcare as a relationship:• A relationship/partnership which enables and fosters the process of working together, to exercise a duty of care for the space we occupy in the land on which we live, … Continue reading Reflections on Landcare:
Jottings, Reflections and Ponderings 