Living with Nature
In my childhood we spent many years growing with Nature. We did this at that
August 16, 2023
- Earth as my ElderEvery morning I am gifted with feeling the sun emerge beyond the horizon.I feel its gentle nudge on my being.My body knows the sensation of dawn. That moment, upon waking when light seeps through the cracks of night and pulls me into this world again I feel awe. Gratitude. A quiet reverence for the mystery […]
- Ego FarmsThey built vast digital pastures not for grazing, but for grazing eyes. Places where attention is currency, and the self a commodity refined through filters and frames. Welcome to the Ego Farms.
- When the Past Touches the PresentHealing doesn’t always come softly. Sometimes it arrives through rupture. It was early morning, before the sun had risen. I was riding my motorbike to the gym, moving fast through the stillness of the dark. And then a collision, I hit a kangaroo. Time slowed. Sound disappeared and in the moments that […]
- Whale Migration and Seasonal KnowingThe blooming of the Golden Wattle is more than beauty, it is a signpost in a world of signs, a marker that tells us: life is moving, birth is near, kin are coming home. When the wattle blooms, it whispers: the whales are coming.
- Flora and FaunaIn 1967 the descendants of the original people in this continent known as Australia were recognised as citizens and afforded rights in society that they had previously been excluded from. I use the term "they" here as a point of reference to the past, not as "them and us". During this time in the push […]