Dr Neville Buch

Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane

Category: The History Of Ruth

  • How to stop reactionary thought? Uncoiling the Reactionary – Mind Historiography and Cognitive Reform

    How to stop reactionary thought? Uncoiling the Reactionary – Mind Historiography and Cognitive Reform

    Dr Neville Buch Uncoiling the Reactionary Mind Historiography and Cognitive Reform       Abstract This essay delineates the cognitive and historical process required to remediate reactionary thought, defined here as a systemic intellectual stasis rooted in “Historical Forgetfulness” and the “techné mindset”. Using the socio-intellectual history of Queensland as a case study—specifically the transition…

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  • The Kindness of Friends and Strangers

    The Kindness of Friends and Strangers

    I am in joyful shock and I have come to believe in providence. Providence is not predictive, it is only the extraordinary narrative of life, told as history.     On this day, 17 December, the ninth anniversary of my lover and wife passing, I received an envelope with a large amount of money, and…

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  • Ninth Anniversary of the Woman I loved

    Ninth Anniversary of the Woman I loved

            17 December 2025     Dear friends,     I have a message that must be acknowledged. And better that it is engaged in.     Ninth Anniversary of the Woman I loved https://www.academia.edu/145443587/Ruth_Buch_Philosophy_Love_and_Universal_Unfolding Dr Neville Buch ABN: 86703686642     Abstract: The life and death of Ruth Elizabeth Buch (died…

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  • When I’m Sixty Four

    When I’m Sixty Four

        You’ll be older too. Ah, and if you say the word, I could stay with you.   15 July 2025, 8:35 A.M. AEST. “I am 64 years old.”   When I’m Sixty Four (Release date: 01 June 1967) was written by Paul McCartney. It is said to be one of the first songs…

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  • Happy Anniversary, Ruth, 37 Year in Time (1988), 28 Years with You (2016): Don’t Bother Me Song by The Beatles ‧ 1963 (both 2 years old)

    Happy Anniversary, Ruth, 37 Year in Time (1988), 28 Years with You (2016): Don’t Bother Me Song by The Beatles ‧ 1963 (both 2 years old)

    Don’t Bother Me Song by The Beatles ‧ 1963           Lyrics   Since she’s been gone I want no one To talk to me It’s not the same But I’m to blame It’s plain to see     So go away and leave me alone Don’t bother me     I…

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  • IN MEMORIAM, THE APRIL FOOL WHO WAS NOT, 55 YEARS, EIGHT YEARS AGO

    IN MEMORIAM, THE APRIL FOOL WHO WAS NOT, 55 YEARS, EIGHT YEARS AGO

    Dear Ruth,   It has been eight dead birthdays since you are past. I miss you very much.     There is nothing much I can say, that has not always been said.     Here is a birthday present for you. “The Waste Land” by T. S. Eliot with some my favourite selections:  …

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  • Memory and Careers in a Corrupt Economic System

    Memory and Careers in a Corrupt Economic System

    The 17 December is a very sad day, with happy memories 27 years ago. 2024 minus 27 years = 1997. I was never good at maths; had to use a calculator. The machines now give us the answers to which we must respond.     1997. I started my first ‘permanent’ career job, as a…

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  • How are we dying? Data from SMH

    How are we dying? Data from SMH

    Thank you, Shane Wright, for “How we die in Australia”, Sydney Morning Herald, October 10, 2024 — 7.45pm.           Interesting that other cancers than Prostate, Bone-Blood-Lymphatic, Colon, Lung, do not make the list. In memory of Ruth.            

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  • Ruth at the Turn of the Century

    Ruth at the Turn of the Century

    His work so absorbed him. Could she hear him? Could she see him? All aglow was his room, Dazed in this light. He would touch her, He would hold her. Laughing as they danced, Highest colours touching others. Did her eyes at the turn of the century, Tell me plainly. … In the still light…

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