The best of Neil Whitfield's least read posts

I am in a somewhat random mood this morning. I am going to limit myself today to just one thing.  In a comment on Introspection on the start of a new year, Winton Bates wrote:

Some bloggers point their readers to the most popular posts they have written, but one day I think I will make a feature of the 'most ignored' posts I have written - the ones that I think more people should have read!

This lead Neil Whitfield (Ninglun) to write My most ignored posts of 2011. For my own pleasure, I decided to review the posts Neil listed and select three that I thought were best.

Let me start with my favourite post, Being Australian 21: inclusive multiculturalism Aussie style 12 – video interlude. With this post, you must watch the videos. If you do, you will get a feel for modern Australia with its complexities and confusions. Neil and I may disagree on certain things, but both of us are concerned with what makes Australia Australia. 

My second favourite is Reflections, mostly about a chequered teaching career: Part Five + Salinger. It's not a long post.

Neil is first and foremost a teacher. I have been reading and responding to him since soon after I started blogging. We have only met once, at Lord Malcolm's funeral. I went not because I knew Lord M, but because I thought that I should to show support. I am glad that I did, although it was in some ways an odd experience. After all, why was I there?

The third post is another English post, Performance poetry has its place.

L eave it to you to enjoy Neil's work.