Archives: Essays

Essay by Luke Foster “If we can’t wash the dishes, the chances are we won’t be able to drink our tea either. While drinking the cup of tea, we will only be thinking of other things, barely aware of the cup in our hands. Thus, we are sucked away into the future—and we are incapable […]

Essay by Luke Foster “People go back to the stuff that doesn’t cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don’t have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library”. […]

Essay by Luke Foster “It’s all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.” Haruki Murakami / Kafka on the Shore Over the past four months I have been watching Netflix movies almost every night and sometimes even two movies. However, I have also been doing late internet shopping for books. […]

Essay by Luke Foster “The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand […]

Essay by Luke Foster “People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behaviour, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.” Johnny Depp Ever since Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands came out in 1990 Johnny Depp has been my favourite actor. Other […]

Essay by Luke Foster “What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.” ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the […]

Essay by Luke Foster “Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.” Harper Lee I read Harper Lees book To Kill a Mockingbird in 10nth grade at school, and I was fascinated by the outsider character Boo Radley. I don’t feel […]

Essay by Luke Foster “People on the outside think there’s something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn’t like that. You sit behind the typewriter, and you work, and that’s all there is to […]

Essay by Luke Foster “An artist’s duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany”. Nick Cave Nick Cave is without doubt my favourite musician however he is also an accomplished author, actor, and screen writer. […]

Essay by Luke Foster “Our mother earth is teaching us a lesson in universal responsibility. This blue planet is a delightful habitat. Its life is our life, its future, our future. Indeed, the earth acts like a mother to us all; as her children, we are dependent on her. In the face of the global […]

Essay by Luke Foster “I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.” Perry Farrell Perry Farrell born Peretz Bernstein in 1959 is an American songwriter and musician and best known of lead singer of alternative rock band Janes Addiction. My favourite album by Janes Addiction is Ritual Lo Habitual […]

Essay by Luke Foster “What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.” Bob Dylan Bob Dylan was born in 1941 and is an American singer-songwriter and is often regarded as one of the greatest […]

Essay by Luke Foster “I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.” Christa McAuliffe Since my mum has passed about a month ago my whole reality has shifted, and I know there is such thing […]

“The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel, and vinyl.” -Dave Barry About five years ago I had a dream one night and I dreamed I had bought an apple smart watch and a big record collection and a record player. So, a few weeks later I went to JB Hi Fi and bought […]

Essay by Luke Foster “It wasn’t that the teachers were bad. From what I can remember, they were pretty good. It was about the selection of books. It was about not seeing my young life reflected back to me: my family dynamics, the noise and complexities of my neighbourhood, the things I loved, like ice […]

Essay by Luke Foster “It took me a long time, but I don’t feel as anxious about stupid things anymore – or perhaps they’ve just been replaced by more complicated stupid things.” Neil Finn Neil Finn was member of the band Crowded House formed in 1985. I used to just like listening to the ocean […]

Essay by Luke Foster Life is a journey, not a destination” Ralph Waldo Emerson I arrived back in Australia on Thursday from Europe and started to get back in the groove of things by getting up early today and hanging out my washing had a decaf coffee and then two hours beach walking then off […]

Essay by Luke Foster “Love isn’t something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn’t a feeling; it is a practice.” Fromm, Eric, The Art of Loving I am not very good in romantic relationships, but I have lots of platonic friends who I care about deeply. I think that […]

Essay by Luke Foster “Nature hasn’t gone anywhere. It is all around us, all the planets, galaxies and so on. We are nothing in comparison.” Bjork I am currently travelling in Europe and have visited Rome and Athens and now in Vienna. I feel so exhilarated by international travel but there is a downside too. […]

Essay by Luke Foster “I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after […]

Essay by Luke Foster “We cannot hope to die peacefully if our lives have been full of violence, or if our minds have mostly been agitated by emotions like anger, attachment, or fear. So, if we wish to die well, we must learn how to live well: Hoping for a peaceful death, we must cultivate […]

Essay by Luke Foster “Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.” Herodotus I am in Dubai for a one night stop over on the way to Europe. I shall go to Rome, Athens, the Greek Islands and Vienna. I am very excited about Rome […]

Essay by Luke Foster “Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.” – Leo Buscaglia When I was a teenager finishing up my final year of school my major work in art was a series of four large […]

Essay by Luke Foster “To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.” Bodhidharma The first thing I do when I wake in the morning is roll out of bed and then walk up and grab a latte at the local cafe and I love to have a chat with the always cheerful baristas. Then […]

“Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.” Dalai Lama A lot of children die in the developing world of simple preventable illnesses. “As a World […]