22 April was international Mother Earth Day. And as I sit here looking out onto a huge banksia tree alive with squawking parrots, agitated noisy miner birds and a few interfering magpies, I’m reminded that Mother Earth has many ways of communicating with us. In the past week I have read stories in the news…
This will surely go down as one of the more thought-provoking Easters for many years. Of course, many in the older person category will remember other Easters that were out of the ordinary; some unique to Australia, others involving wartime experiences. But this is different for one reason only – a virus pandemic which…
The unexpected always happens in the way The unexpected has always occurred: While we are doing something else, While we are thinking of altogether Different things — matters that events Then show to be every bit as unimportant As our human concerns so often are; And then, with the unexpected upon us, We look at…
It feels like such a long time ago now Since we learned to pronounce names like Hubei and Wuhan They also seemed so far away And in a very remote kind of the way we watched the numbers grow The number of cases The number of deaths Busy streets strangely empty It was all happening…
I heard a Wattle bird today ‘It’s time to go’ she seemed to say Another joined her gentle song I think it was a Currawong Parrots, Magpies, on the wire Joined the song – we had a choir Feathered friends within the trees Set their songs upon the breeze. The Wattle bird – alone no…