I have to follow Mil and write about TEAR aswell. It rocked my small self centred universe. Although what was great was that the people there are trying to live lives that are not self centred. The speakers and the artists and the organisers and the participants were all trying to encourage eachother into a life where we don’t just put ourselves and our families first. I really value that. I thought Ched Myers was a well thought through and articutlate speaker. It was great that TEAR managed to get him. Thanks Ched for hanging in Australia longer than planned. However, no one could be a bigger draw card than Jemma Castle, she was amazing and is like so famous now. It was hard to find time to talk to her she was so swamped with interested people. No, that is not true, there was plenty of time to talk to her and it was really lovely. Actually that was the best thing about TEAR, catching up with so many different people I have come to know in the left wing, social justice Christian cirlce. I feel I had some really great conversations and felt really connected to the people I was having them with. So thanks to God for that.