Optimism : Reflections on a Life of ActionIn Optimism, Bob Brown shares with us his stories and insights from throughout his public and private life, that reveal the events that have made an impression, the ideas that have caught his imagination, and the people that have stayed in his thoughts. This book reflects on the simple things, the moments that are meaningful, and the big questions that have concerned Bob Brown and inspired him to achieve. It is a powerful book as well as a meditation on the great and the small. Inspirational, compassionate, outraged, Bob Brown’s stories are rich with metaphor, entertaining and full of warmth. A great promoter of activism he is keen for all to experience life as richly as he has. Although he has seen much of the world through the prism of politics he still believes that there is reason to believe that the changes he has pursued can be made and will be for the better. His stories reveal a complex man with a quick wit and a joy for life. “It is a fortunate life if a person feels more optimistic than ever before. That’s me.” Bob Brown |
Contents
The love of Johns life | |
Jimi on a bier | |
Drumnadrochit | |
Fasting on Mount Wellington | |
1976 | |
The Irenabyss | |
Impossibility and certainty are together on Earth 11 The old man in the shed | |
Jack Spooner | |
Her Majestys Prison 1982 | |
The new religion | |
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