{"id":1162,"date":"2017-08-07T13:19:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T03:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2017-08-07T13:19:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T03:19:24","slug":"at-the-table-wayne-singleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/?p=1162","title":{"rendered":"At the Table: Wayne Singleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1163\" src=\"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/WEB_WSingleton_HighteaAndalaugh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/WEB_WSingleton_HighteaAndalaugh.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.visionaries.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/WEB_WSingleton_HighteaAndalaugh-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Wayne Singleton<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <em>High Tea and a Laugh, Graceville<\/em>, hand coloured linocut, 57 cm x 84.5 (framed).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>High Tea and a laugh<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To know people,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">look to the company they keep.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If I could change one cultural intercourse tradition,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;it would be a substitution of questions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Instead of \u2018what do you do for a living?\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I\u2019d like to ask \u2018what do you do with your friends?\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Surely we are a product of our acquaintanceships,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">a product of all the grace, compassion,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and sometimes \u2018hard love\u2019 that we have shared.&nbsp; They shape us, sustain us and give a sense of place, a sense of \u2018I\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Hence the old Biblical exhortation to be careful of the company you keep, and the Buddhist teaching that with our words we make the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">When I measure \u2018myself\u2019 by the quality<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and diversity of my acquaintances,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I know that I am a lucky man.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">More tea anyone?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Interested in Wayne&#8217;s work? He can be contacted on:<\/p>\n<p>Wayne Singleton: <a href=\"mailto:waynessingleton@gmail.com\">waynessingleton@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Singleton &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; High Tea and a Laugh, Graceville, hand coloured linocut, 57 cm x 84.5 (framed).&nbsp; High Tea and a laugh To know people, look to the company they keep. &nbsp; If I could change one cultural intercourse tradition, &nbsp;it would be a substitution of questions. 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