5 finger breathing...Who would believe such a simple 'do anywhere' action can calm the racing mind and the attached anxiety... ❤️❤️❤️ https://t.co/QPLZy1i9XZ pic.twitter.com/bWe5CGhjZX— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) July 14, 2020
Connecting moments in my peninsula world, my Australia and beyond...Whatever speaks to my thalassophile soul in these tidal days...
Tuesday 14 July 2020
5 finger breathing...
Randolph Stow lost?...
Adore Randolph Stow's work...Read 'To the Islands' + 'Merry-Go-Round in the Sea' + 'Midnite' + finally 'To the Girl Green as Elderflower'. Poetry - 'Ishmael' + 'The Land's Meaning'. His work today seems to be a lost treasure...at least as far as school curriculum is concerned. https://t.co/I2a124BBEV— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) July 14, 2020
From 'Ishmael'
The hawks wheel in the
dawnlight, the dawn breeze
blows
from the heart of drought, from
the hungry waiting country –
and what have I to leave, but
this encumbering
tenderness, like gear for ever
unclaimed.
P.S. Currently popular Western Australian novelist Tim Winton influenced by Stow's outback descriptions of Western Australian outback landscapes and people? (In particular, this comment seems connected to Stow's novel 'Tourmaline'.)
P.P.S. It seems that the Sydney Morning Herald agrees with me...
article on Stow published June 2, 2010
Randolph Stow quotes:
Ishmael -'Oasis. Discovered homeland. My eyes drink at your eyes.'
The Embarkation-'Winds in the harbour hiss'
At Sandalwood-'The love of time, and the grief of time: the harmony'
The Land's Meaning-'The love of man is a weed of the waste places.'
snow tracks and a bird...
Snow tracks on soft snowy mounds+ bird on the wing...magical winter world... https://t.co/NHYaXgSrcW— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) July 14, 2020
child and snow patterns...
Perhaps this may be a tough gig for the young one...But look at all the wonderful, artistic patterns in the snow. Gorgeous photo. https://t.co/LaK6jMso4u— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) July 14, 2020
Australian lighthouses...
I checked the website...staggered how much literature is out there involving Australian lighthouses...both fiction and non-fiction... My 'to read' list is getting longer very quickly...— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) July 14, 2020
Thanks @AuraGem, yes there is quite a substantial body of writing around this topic and setting. The idea is the project will keep growing with new books published and ones we might have missed. We'd love to know which ones you read and enjoy most! 📚
— AustLit (@AustLit) July 14, 2020
like eerie skeleton arms...
like eerie skeleton arms reaching for somewhere... https://t.co/co9O8V6htj— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) July 14, 2020
pebble legend...
pebble legend— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) July 14, 2020
the cosmic
eggshell gifts
painted symbols of
earth and sky #tanka https://t.co/HLh6vEBZkY
alone...
— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) July 14, 2020Kiyochika Kobayashi (1847-1915), born into a samurai family, is regarded as an important artist of the Japanese Meiji period who paved the way for following generations of Japanese printmakers from the traditional ukiyo-e to the new shin hanga art movement.
More details of his life from the Meiji period and the Tokugawa shogunate to his life as a ronin - a lordless samurai HERE
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