It's tough

Gosh, haven't contributed in a while.

You know, I find it tough to keep pushing all the time. Most of my energy to push through things is being burnt up by work... and I really don't have the answer on reclaiming some portion of that towards things I want to do.

WI 5: Email to the NCCA - Skylights in Churches

I do so many gigs on the weekends, and everytime I think to myself "Why is this church so dark? Why do we have to turn the lights on in the middle of a glorious day?". I've been thinking for a while that this is showing a glaringly obvious way in which we do not live in harmony with the environment and also how we use resources unneccessarily and in unsustainable ways.

After some research... I found the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA) and noticed that they actually care about the environment! I felt really ignorant because I generalised church as no caring and denying human impact on the climate.... but on the website of the NCCA I was proven wrong, and I am really happy about that!

You can read for yourself by clicking on the image below.



So... an idea has been brewing in my mind about skylights in churches and what a great way this would be of bringing in nature into the church, reducing impact on our planet, setting an example to communities, and also of reducing energy bills. I decided to share my idea with the NCCA. I hope to hear from them and I hope my email to them is not interpreted in a negative way. See below for my email to the NCCA....

Announcement

I haven't worked it all out yet, and I'm only just growing into my understanding of it.... I am a feminist.

11:45pm

11:45pm happens often but mostly when I'm thinking and alone.

11:45 - A realisation of something I already knew but forgot

WI 4: Complaint to Medicare

Firstly, I want to do this again. You. I mean you, blog. I want to do you again. OK. Now that that's cleared up, 5 minutes starts now....

Fact 1: I went to the doctor and had to pay.
Fact 2: I then got a cheque from medicare refunding me part of the payment - Thank you.
Fact 3: I the got a cheque from medicare which I am to send on to my doctor.

WHAT?!
Can't they just deposit it into his account?
OR... Hmm.... Check out the attached picture of the medicare cheque



So, Medicare sends a cheque to MY address (my details circled in green). And references the cheque in my name and address (again circled in green at bottom). Medicare even has my doctors address and instructs me to send the cheque on to my doctor at that address (red circle).

What doesn't make sense to me is that if they have the address, why not just send it to the doctor directly? It would cost them the same as sending the letter to me. I may understand if they didn't know the address of the doctor, BUT THEY DO!

I've been trying desperately to work out why this silly inefficient process of re-imbursing the doctor. Does Medicare really think every citizen is going to actually post this check on to their doctor???? Only thing I could think of is that it could be an economic booster... 1 50c stamp at a time, 1 50c envelope at a time.... a way to draw more money to be spent in the economy.

I still disagree with it. And this can't be the reason.... Medicare probably just haven't thought it through. So I will write them a complaint.



Not sure what else to do. But, at least I've said my bit... I hope something improves about it.

Ok.... this time you took 10 minutes, blog.