40 days of trip journal entries + 40 day journal entries since we arrived home. Even with a few setbacks my mojo is beginning to return. 80 days of journaling. Just for me. Unstyled sometimes unfocused photos. Landscape. Portrait. Who cares. Just for me. Inspo screen shots. Just for me. Words, descriptors, narrative. Just for … More Talk is cheap…
At the end of 2024 I said there would be no more writing about the past. Notwithstanding, the following long version was written in 2023; exercise one, write a one-page autobiography for lesson 1 of [the subsequently abandoned] Write Heal Transform: A Magical Memoir Writing Course. The title inspired by Eddie Vedder/Pearl Jam song lyrics. … More The short version… 2025: I’m still alive.
Following an extended period of destabilisation we’re regaining our sense of place and peace at home. With a sense of relief we settled on the usual front corner of our verandah customary beverages at hand; wine spritzer for me and beer for the G.O., to watch the light fade from the sky on the last … More Life goes on…
Once upon a long time ago in a place far far away… actually, it was merely the first weekend of June just gone, the King’s Birthday public holiday long weekend here in NSW, Australia. And more importantly at our local region’s much-anticipated annual Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival where for two time-out-of-time days [returning home … More Such a human way to be…
For those of you who access blog posts through WordPress Reader, this post was published today rather than 4 days ago when I began adding the text and photos. When my stepmother asked would I deliver the eulogy at Dad’s funeral along with my uncle and sister, I couldn’t refuse and I had some material … More Love came first… (a note for WordPress Readers)
A story of Ron Newling, who liked to set his musings and memories down in words, by his eldest daughter, Dale Lee who still doesn’t know how she got her name. When we left Dad in his nursing home room on 26 May, he was sleepy and so I suggested he remain in his chair … More Love came first…
The act of writing should, and often does involve some thought, reflection, and process of constructing ideas. However, the ideas need to come somehow from somewhere. I find most of my ideas derive from tangible activity constructing an actual something. The corollary is, I eat therefore I cook. Which gives me something to blog about, … More I do therefore I write…
In her speculative fiction novel ‘470’ Linda Woodrow explores scenarios of a dystopian future… “In the 2030s, as the world spirals into ecological and economic meltdown, three generations of an Australian family must find a way to each other, and then a way to survive and make a good life.” Linda Woodrow along with other … More Shelter from the storm…
Rain rain rain. Before our summer holiday in Queensland and after. Before our Easter break at Bingara and after. During our recent sojourn intended to be four nights at Murrurundi, extended necessarily to ten nights while floodwaters engulfed the rivers, minor and major roads between us and the village. According to our farmer-market gardener friends-neighbours, … More Paradise enough…
After living in the village fulltime for coming up to ten years and for ten years prior preparing it and ourselves to live here fulltime, a kind of symbiosis has occurred… the lines blur; we are part of the system that sustains us, and it is part of us. Dreams rarely come true in precisely … More Sometimes I wonder…
Choko… one of my favourite backyard crops. We’re fortunate to have choko vines growing on both of our side dividing fences. Also known as chayote, it’s a versatile vegetable with a mild, sweet-savoury flavour. It’s a popular ingredient in various cuisines and is used in dishes like salads, soups, and stews. In Australia, I think it’s most famous … More Choko two ways…
The question is do I make sauce because I drink wine [and so to repurpose the bottles] or do I drink wine because I make sauce. After the past few days I think the latter and because homemade Worcestershire sauce is the G.O.’s favourite. Day 1.Extract saved wine bottles from storage tubs in shed. Soak … More … it’s a lifestyle
Oh. Hello. Look who I found in the process of just showing up. Me. Here I am. I go about my days, my projects, my tasks with at least a hand on my phone-camera and narratives in my head which I jot into Google Workspace Keep notes along with what I cooked, harvested, planted in … More Don’t give up your day job…
Dialogue, discourse, discussion, conversation, colloquy, soliloquy, sotto voce… but none among them le mot juste. Never mind words for a blog post, nor for Instagram should I find the focus to point my phone’s camera, or even to explain it in my own head. Then, I stumbled across the descriptor that sums up our modus … More Lost for words…
Whatever else may be forthcoming, 2025 is our year of milestone anniversaries. The G.O. has a seven zero birthday in June, Diesel-dog is the big one zero in October and my six zero birthday is in November. There are quite a few friends also reaching the latter throughout the year. The G.O. and I have … More 1965 – 2025
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