Scenic Valley

It seems that things are most beautiful when the conditions are most harsh. This is true of that magnificent little plant - The Sturt Desert Pea. I think it is true of people too.  Send a text

We are hearng that the problem of racism is huge. But is there an even deeper more widespread problem that also requires our best efforts? The problem of fatherlessness and what is is doing to kids....... Also available at adriankitson.com https://www.wix.com/dashboard/06ced648-da17-4060-8b83-659ef8132ce9/blog/5f5548413661be0018455998/edit Send a text

There is something about climbing a mountain, be it actual or personal or relational. Maybe it is the learning from the achievement and the view you get? Send a text

It is 50 years since the Wave Hill walk out. Worth pausing to reflect on how little things that are just can grow to to make things just for all.   Send a text

We seem to be in the mood to just cancel people. Maybe it is more productive to counter the culture rather than cancel people! Send a text

Culture Shift: Working with the younger set.  Send a text

How are we responding to this interruption to life? Is it chance or fate? Send a text

It has been an intense time and I think it has caught up with me. I am officially tired! How about you? Send a text

We are living in this 'Supposed to' time under COVID. I wonder how er are working through the limitations and how we can find joy and love in it.  Send a text

People are taking their own life in big numbers in this country and the pain is enormous. Recovery in the pain is so hard, but so needed.  Send a text

Our kids are burdened. Are we listening? Send a text

It is hard to listen to people who are challenging your values and the story you hold dear. Is it good to take down Captain Cook's statue? Send a text

It a easy to to try and 'jump in and 'fix' this unease around race and injustice we are experiencing. Friends from Minneapolis suggest a better way to respond.... Send a text

What a time we are living in. Feels like some Hollywood movie about the end of a country and the end of the world! Black lives matter. So do all lives. Can we find a way to a better way at this time?  Send a text

The religious and the irreligious search for extra help when the going gets tough. Hard to know where to find it and if the help works...... Send a text

It is Reconciliation Week in Australia. We are so different. Will we ever truly reconcile? Send a text

What will be your new commitments come some kind of normal? Will we remember the good things? Send a text

Those dirty drugs are killing us and it is hard to know why and what to do.... Send a text

In the strangest ANZAC Day ever, I still was drawn to remember them. I wonder why I am drawn to this Day so much.... Send a text

More evidence of that dirty life destroying drug with the latest sad episode in the long downfall of Ben Cousins. What comes after our condemnation of the many like him? Send a text

These are serious times of challenge to our normal. Where do draw hope from? Questions to myself in COVID time.... Send a text

Are you finding your values being re-valued in this forced restriction of busyness and security? Could be time to let values be re-valued for the better.  Send a text

Clear skies over China a clear water in Venice - the Wounded Heal. Do they heal us humans under threat? Send a text

I have noticed something in this COVID-19 journey. There has been a shift from myself to community. It might be a journey you are on too..... Send a text

How are you going in the pandemic lock down? To me, it feels like living in a fog. It is heavy and isolating. Then it clears for a while, but you are ever wary. This threat just hangs over you.  Send a text