The Winding Road Home...

There is something quietly, 'musically' gentle and inspiring about this beautiful painting...I checked George Callaghan's biography and was surprised to find he was born in Belfast Ireland but has finally called Tasmania home...(He is also a harpmaker)....https://t.co/DV5sRVfpoM https://t.co/vgkekX7kW8

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 10, 2020

Royal Melbourne Hospital Scrub Choir...

Love this...
The Royal Melbourne Hospital Scrub Choir performs 'I’ll Stand By You' - Chrissie Hynde & the Pretenders with other health care workers who are fighting the coronavirus ... https://t.co/149Ekac2hT via @YouTube

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 10, 2020

emergency poet...

The world needs all kinds of healthcare... Not all is found in a doctor's surgery, hospital or even with a psychologist... It could be as simple as reaching out for a little poetry relief... https://t.co/Ep78BfI6od

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 10, 2020

worse than Stage 4 lockdown...

Sometimes the best way to sidestep the deep chasm of
self-pity is find someone else facing a bigger crisis. Wildfires across the west coast of USA + covid-19 challenges...Very sobering for those of us in Melbourne Stage 4 lockdown...There is worse right now... https://t.co/sswUxd5ZMZ

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 10, 2020

- Wildfires are raging across the entire West Coast of the US from Washington State to Southern California 

- Multiple deaths have been reported 

- The Bear Fire has destroyed structures in Oroville, California and evacuation warnings have been put in place for Paradise, California, which burned in 2018's Camp Fire 

- Communities near Medford, Oregon have burned down 

- Mass evacuations have been ordered across California and southwestern Oregon

The sky over Oakland keeps getting darker and more orange. My phone kept color correcting the actual hue so I busted out my real camera @sfchronicle pic.twitter.com/ENv4WSOhUy

— Jessica Christian (@jachristian) September 9, 2020

Imagine showing this tweet to yourself a year ago and explaining "oh no, the masks aren't because the sky is orange, that's for a different thing." https://t.co/nnqoOBk3uM

— Meredith Haggerty (@manymanywords) September 9, 2020

 

The Embarcadero is the eastern waterfront and roadway of the Port of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, along San Francisco Bay.

Seeing these images from the west coast today, I knew they looked oddly familiar...and now I remember from what: Blade Runner 2049.

I guess we're 29 years early. pic.twitter.com/K9y8dwePVV

— Myrha Cheval @🏡 (@MyrhaCheval) September 9, 2020

Looking out at the Golden Gate Bridge at 9:30am this morning. pic.twitter.com/woTxHvyc7o

— The octopus said… (@Pulpolover) September 10, 2020

Amazing images, on SBS news tonight, of wildfires on the west coast of USA. But 2 particularly spoke to me...guides for moving forward...
1. smoky rubble and trees...begin with trees...air quality...life...
2. smoky sign for a children's playground... think of the children...life pic.twitter.com/DXyo62egXI

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 10, 2020

uninvited memories...

Love the idea of 'the universe in the palm of your hand'...Needed that thought...Today some uninvited, dark, hurtful memories bubbled up...e.g. going home from a ball in an early morning paper delivery ute - my drunk partner had forgotten about me...Years ago...Moving on... https://t.co/6MGlqpcime

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 10, 2020

Strange that on some days, the painful memories rise up for no real reason...More frequently these days...Maybe it's this Stage 4 Lockdown inciting them...The mood, the isolation, the loneness...That drunk partner was actually my first husband...Not the first, nor the last, time he chose to wander when we went out...Most times it was toward other women...He was a model flirt and then some...And I was a wimp putting up with it...I thought I loved him...In retrospective wisdom, blind love is not really love at all...