Where did you learn to swim? For me it was an indoor swimming pool out the back of Westfield Figtree in Wollongong. We lived near the beach, and we spent some school holidays with cousins at Beecroft who had a pool in their back yard, but mastering freestyle, backstroke, and later butterfly in an environment where I …
Jesus and the winds of change
As a young child in Wollongong, I learned a lot of hymns and songs at Sunday School, in church, and at home listening to Burl Ives LP records. Burl was a challenge to my tiny mind, since as well as revivalist hymns he also sang patriotic American songs, and colonial Australian songs such as …
