life of fire (a concerto) composition beginning with timidity, a delicate foray into existence, perhaps lingering for fear of the known, the breathless destruction that comes with being fire a confidence is gathering swiftly, with success and orchestral fuel, a collaboration that we know will destroy, but this can be ignored in the harmony of […]
Yellow is something mellow that gets the yolk, the buttercup duckling wrapped in chubby fingers, cradling, it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that lemon zing, butter creaming, icing sugar dreaming, sunflower beaming, Coldplay streaming, cows milk churning, cheese wheels turning, banana paddle-popping corner shop-a-stopping, sunbeam slating the unhappiness, deflating, so tie a […]
Well, halloo everyone! It has been a very strange start to the year my friends! Apologies for being so quiet in the blogosphere – I could be shell shocked or sumthin’ As many of you know, the town closest to where we live – Bundaberg – has recently had the worst flood in the cities […]
Women in Prison Today is International Women’s Day in the land of Oz and it got me thinking about disenfranchised women. In my early years studying psychology at the University of Queensland I had to do a community placement. I had to do something useful so I chose to teach guitar at the women’s prison […]
It Never Rains but it Pours! What a fitting expression ‘it never rains but it pours’. Today we can take it literally. We’ve gone from months of little rain (even though it’s summer; and here in the sub-tropics we usually get most of our rain in the summer) and a great risk of wild fire; […]
Fast Forward I feel like the movie of my life is on fast forward. I’m watching The Mentalist on Monday and then I’m watching The Mentalist on Monday and I don’t know what happened to the week in between. The only thing happening slowly is the arrival of the furniture – bit by bit in […]
Wow! We’ve moved into our new place and chaos rules. We are still moving actually, as the furniture hasn’t quite caught up with us. We are sleeping on the floor on blow-up mattresses. It’s like luxury camping – with toilets and showers and a fridge. We didn’t even have a fridge for the first week […]
I am often delightfully surprised by synchrony in the blogosphere. You could write a thesis about it if you were that way inclined. It could be titled ‘an analysis of subliminal, conscious and spontaneous influences on the development of literary and artistic themes within short time periods among bloggers on the internet’ or some such […]
thud of bare feet vanishing bubbler crabs refuge in the sand _________________________________________________________
kids beachcombing fishers netting the ocean cache of patience ___________________________________________________________
