“Lack of money is no obstacle.  Lack of an idea is an obstacle,” (Ken Hakuta: The Quotations Page).

“I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope,” (Aeschylus, 525 BC – 456 BC, Agamemnon: The Quotations Page).

The entire planet has a new enemy—swine flu.  I just hope this is a mild one because we don’t need more problems right now.  We are still in the doldrums with the financial crisis and the recession.  Nature is really beginning to get back at us.  We must pray harder for all these to pass!

I’m missing my family terribly!  It’s been nine months since I last saw them.  Whenever I see families out together I long for the time when I can be one with my wife, daughter and two sons.  Especially on Sundays like this: cold, rainy, lonely.  I do hope the sun does shine soon in my life!

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor,” (Seneca: QuotationsBook).

“Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts,” (Cicero, 106 BC – 43 BC: The Quotations Page).

“A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world,” (Edmond de Goncourt: Quoteland).

National Library of Australia Harold White Fellowships 2009

Applications for 2010 Harold White Fellowships at the National Library of Australia are now open, and close on 30 April 2009.

Each year several Harold White Fellowships are awarded to enable established scholars and writers to undertake research at the National Library for periods of between three and six months. The Fellowships provide a return economy fare to Canberra, a living allowance, a fully equipped office and special access to Library collections and services.

Honorary Fellowships are also awarded to scholars and writers who do not require financial assistance but would benefit from other privileges associated with the Fellowship.

Research projects supported by Harold White Fellowships can be in any discipline or area in which the Library has strong collections. Past Harold White Fellows have undertaken research in fields including Asian studies, history of science, biography, media history, Australian history, musicology, religious history, anthropology, children’s literature, art history, politics, Indigenous history, Australian literature, Pacific studies, eighteenth century studies, geography, international relations and folklore. Past Fellows have included leading Australian creative writers including Frank Moorhouse, Sara Dowse and David Foster. Fellowships have been awarded to researchers working across Australia, in the USA, Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Hong Kong, China, Germany and South Africa.

More information, a link to the online application form, and contact details are available at www.nla.gov.au/grants/haroldwhite

Margy Burn, National Library of Australia

mburn@nla.gov.au

“Where there is sunshine, there is also shade,” (Kashmiri proverb: Creative Proverbs).

“Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind,” (George Washington Allston: Quoteworld).