David Thorne's Personal Webspace
Retired doctor and former educator of medical students, currently involved in the adult ongoing learning and the arts fields.
David in Antarctica (2007)
My Art Collection
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You have the Strength to Give.
Give someone a second chance at life!
Humour
For my next life...
"In my next life I want to live my life backwards.
You start out dead and get that out of the way.
Then you wake up in an old people’s home feeling better every day.
You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day.
You work 40 years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement.
You party, drink alcohol, and are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school. You then go to primary school, you become a kid, you play.
You have no responsibilities, you become a baby until you are born.
And then you spend your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa-like conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day and then Voila!
You finish off as an orgasm."
— George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
Art
Mark Judd oil on canvas Second Valley II 150cm x 120cm
Anne Sorensen cast & cold-worked glass Point of View
Glass and other art forms
Some images from my personal art collection are coming soon...
Art
Sculpture by the Sea
20TH ANNUAL COTTESLOE EXHIBITION
> 1–18 MARCH 2024 <
Tony Davis (Western Australia)
"Folly Spaces” (maquette) (2023)
Corten steel
Philanthropy
Very well done Andrew!
Stage 1971
Life .. is a sexually transmitted Terminal Illness!
November 2023
The future may be short
About life...
Your days are so much more precious when you understand and accept there are not so many of them left.
Travel 2018
Bremer Canyon off the south coast of WA
One of many photographs I took of Killer Whales (Orcinus orca) on an expedition out to the Bremer Canyon in 2018. Popular and attractive, the Orca is in fact the apex marine predator!
Philosophy
WE SHOULD NEVER BELIEVE ALL THAT WE READ, and CERTAINLY
Travel September 2008
Philosophy meaning “love of wisdom” may have originated in Egypt?
Philosophy
“Man perishes; his corpse turns to dust; all his relatives return to the earth. But writings make him remembered in the mouth of the reader.”
- attributed to Irsesh 12th century BCE (discovered in the 1920’s on papyrus scrolls at Deir El-Medina, across the Nile from Luxor.)
Philosophy
"I don’t so much fear death as I do wasting life."
— Oliver Sacks (1933-2015)
A little bit about me...
Organisations
My present affiliations...
I am currently involved in two organisations that contribute to the interests of seniors.
A member of Melville & Districts Branch, and contributor to City Courses and the 'Art for Everyone' programme at the Art Gallery of WA.
President of MALA, an independent, charitable and self-funded Association incorporated in WA and offering a broad range of educational/social programs for mature adults in Perth and Mandurah.
Here is a description of David’s present & past talks.
The archive is currently incomplete - it’s still a work in progress!
