Life certainly has its circularities. Last week whilst cleaning out my office in the Menzies Building at Monash University (Clayton) I came across notes that I had made when Frank presented a talk at the University of Sydney on the 4th August 1988. I noted that Frank came from the Graduate School of Environmental Sciences at Monash and that he had formerly been an Electrical Engineer. My notes are an eclectic array of terms that have littered my own writing and scholarship over most of the intervening time. Examples include: '3rd generation thinking'; 'epistemology'; 'reductionism'; 'utilitarianism'; 'understanding comes from interaction with others'; 'dialectic'; 'the edge of madness - feeling an indoor plant to see if it is real'.
As outlined in an earlier post Frank died from complications associated with an inoperable brain tumour on 21st August 2012. Since his death there has been a very moving public memorial service - more a celebration than a mourning - in a packed BMW Edge at Federation Square in Melbourne. Also a launch of the ebook 'Everyday Transcendence: The Influence of Frank Fisher' that was put together and completed (if not published) just before Frank's death. The book can be downloaded from Frank's legacy website, 'the Understandascope' and there are also video segments from the memorial service and the book launch. Please explore them and appreciate why Frank was loved by so many and why so many were transformed through knowing Frank.
Frank's obituary appeared in The Age on Monday September 24th, 2012.
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