I’m Ian Cowan. THE MACROPOD is a vessel designed to propagate my own recent writings (details of work published during an earlier life can be found here). It might well have been called Ipod, but that name has been appropriated by another seed bearing fruit. So I decided on a title less personal and more expansive – the big pod, THE MACROPOD.
There is another reason for that choice. The home of the blog is Australia. It is there, and in nearby islands, that creatures called macropods leap about on relatively large hind feet.
Charles Darwin made the acquaintance of a macropod when he visited Australia. It was a Potoroo, a creature the size of a rabbit. It is hoped this MACROPOD will have a somewhat bigger foot print; that it will leap beyond these shores, and travel, as did Darwin, a ‘long way from home’.
Stop press. 19 June 2017.
The last of my so-called disquisitions is titled “On Liberty to Die”. I shall assume that liberty today.
Perhaps “The Macropod” will die with me. But for whatever it is worth, I dedicate it to my dear, dear wife, Krisana, who supported my attempts to write, and has loved me and looked after me in ways that have enriched my life.
THE MACROPOD 