John Sanderson is a photographer, writer and editor who has spent a lifetime connecting with and challenging his readers.
He recreates history in a way that you’d think he lived way back when.
He has just spent two years writing, editing and composing Australia’s most widely circulating national produce and farming newspaper, National Marketplace News.
John was nominated for journalism’s Walkley Award a few years back, so your news could not be in better hands.
Here is John’s definitive manual on communication to assist you to examine your “talking gene” and discover its state of health.
Anglo Saxons need your help. Can you please assist us stiff-upper-lip folk to discover and value our extended families. While we have your ethnic attention, we need your help to string a meal out for several hours, during which time we might learn to talk for extended periods.
An excellent goal might be for us to stop thinking about protocol and building monuments and actually find out what is in the hearts of our friends and family, instead of just banging on about procedural matters and infrastructure creation.
While you ethnic minorities are at it, can you please help us find our talking gene so that improved relationships might discourage some of our youth suicides and prevent some of us from getting plonked into aged care facilities. It happens when us elderly Westernised folk are seen as part of the infrastructure we helped to create.
So what does making a meal last for two hours have to do with alleviating depression, longevity, crook national symbols and the exportation of convicts to Australia and the USA?
The Talking Gene connects this by way of humor, cartoons, insightful quotes, a bit of sadness and funny relationship stories along the way. You will never again feel the same way about logging your family tree, bureaucrats, ethnic minorities or Australia’s first settlers. You owe it to your talking gene to read this.
A coffee table book that will provoke conversation
(This writing remains the property of John D Sanderson, Sanderson Media, Springwood Queensland, Aust, 4127)
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A big thankyou to my son Peter for the cartoons he produced when aged 13. Appreciation to my beautiful wife for teaching me to make a meal last long enough to enjoy the conversation.
Contents:
1 Anglo Saxons need your help
2 Trying to break the cycle
3 Penguins can’t understand Romance
4 Reading a living page
5 Building relationships and pointless monuments
6 Conversation versus efficiency
7 Reading your family tree
8 How to dig up your tree with love
9 Swapping stories with Turks and neighbours
10 Coffee talk
11 What our genes tell us
12 Genetic research at your local flea market
13 Oracy from a Greek blacksmith
14 Using dental talk as a barometer
15 Humble dung throwing promotes communication
16 Revenge on Bob the bully
17 Why some can’t connect
18 Standing on one leg for Captain Cook
19 Upgrading social and business genes without surgery
20 How to be sure you can’t communicate
21 Can’t talk to big spending tourists
22 Bureaucrats can’t talk
23 Excusing the debacle
24 The Talking Gene and teenage suicide
25 Communication is good for your health
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