Category: Only Words

• Bondi kill.

  and it speaks toour collective lapse.That an awl of crimson horrorcan puncturea Bondi sunset beach.

  Ian Miller

  December 15, 2025

  Only Words

  Australia, poetry

• My favourite things of 2025.

  I simply remember my favourite things…..and then I dont feel so bad.

  Ian Miller

  December 13, 2025

  Only Words

  Buddhism, consciousness, creativity, meditation, mindfulness, photography, writing, zen

• Its a fucking climate emergency.

  I have been doing a little reading during this trip. I wont bore you with links to the research or the titles of books (I don’t want to bore you, I want to shock you……….as in here, hold these two wires), but I will share a video at the end of this post. Our planet…

  Ian Miller

  December 1, 2025

  Only Words

  climateChange, climateEmergency, deGrowth, Ecology, environment, politics, technology

• Recommended read: Leaving Space for Grace.

  This is the read I’ve been looking for. A long essay that explores our navigational plot through these times of existential crisis. And calibration of the compass based on Victor Frankl’s three-step model in our search for meaning. What we need, it seems (now, more than ever) are more tragic optimists. […] what we can…

  Ian Miller

  November 15, 2025

  Only Words

  AI, climateChange, meditation, psychology, socialmedia, technology

• The impacted nurse path.

  I have been blogging since before the beginning of blogging. Before shojiwax.com, there was theNursePath (2015- to I cant even remember when it shut down) and before that impactEDnurse (circa 2002-2014). Many great memories were captured there. Documenting the highs and lows of my emergency department colleagues as well as interrogating my own experiences. All…

  Ian Miller

  November 8, 2025

  Only Words

  Australia, blogging, healthcare, medicine, nurse

• Japan trip 2025.

  Travel plans for our impending trip.

  Ian Miller

  October 31, 2025

  Only Words

  Japan, photography, travel

• Zen is a rug.

  Is Zen a religion? And what has it got to do with AC/DC?

  Ian Miller

  October 30, 2025

  Only Words

  god, meditation, philosophy, religion, zen

• Housekeeping: comments and sharing.

  Looking to improve your ability to share and comment.

  Ian Miller

  October 29, 2025

  Only Words

  blogging, reading, wordpress, writing

• Be prepared. For the unpreparable.

  So two nights ago I watched the movie House Full of Dynamite. It looked at the response (at both a human and military level) to a single nuclear missile attack on America. It was a good movie. Chilling, but good. And it got me thinking.

  Ian Miller

  October 28, 2025

  Only Words

  climateChange, health, life, meditation, mental-health, mindfulness, personal-growth, politics, war