It was a wonderful evening at Deakin Edge last week for the My Deakin World Film Competition where students presented their short films on what it means to be at Deakin University. Prizes were up for grabs and for me I was enthused to see the creativity that abounds when encouragement is given to students. This is my introduction to Mr Aaron Sterns, who was the key note speaker of the evening. I have been pleasantly inspired tonight, by the Short Film, Silent Waltz to Play , and the Enthusiasts films thus far that we have all just watched. It's the words of Edward Young, an English poet of the 17 th century that come to mind; for it is our senses that " Take in at once the landscape of the world, At a small inlet, which a grain might close, And half create the wondrous world they see." Stories come from this place. Stories derive from our senses and are turned into novels, poems and as you have all witnessed today, films. Within one of my blogs, I had