old TV v. broadband...

David (ancient TV) battles Goliath (new broadband) in a Welsh village... And, as legend tells us, David wins...
'It’s not the old telly’s fault – it was just doing its buzzy thing, still fully functioning after all these years, and the new technology was too feeble to cope.' https://t.co/T9q8VjVpFL pic.twitter.com/bPTNtLCvve

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 27, 2020

Mediterranean dreaming...

Mediterranean dreaming... https://t.co/e1TPNh1kVN

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 27, 2020

Enterprise dreamscape...

My imagination is running riot...The Owl and the Pussy Cat have now grown up and decided to take another sail in the skies together in a bigger boat...This image is really beautiful... https://t.co/0WN6j1SvSp

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 27, 2020

how civilisations heal...

Toni Morrison was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
She 'helped transfigure a literary canon long closed to African Americans'. - https://t.co/pNLMCwlQjj https://t.co/zbAbiM1i7G pic.twitter.com/eYdnrArBSW

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 27, 2020

few grains of happiness...

From - “The Weighing” (1994) by Jane Hirshfield

So few grains of happiness
measured against all the dark
and still the scales balance.

The world asks of us
only the strength we have and we give it.
Then it asks more, and we give it. pic.twitter.com/VSvUeu2IT5

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 27, 2020

Silent Spring...

Rachel Carson's work highlights a need to value the environment... a need savvy indigenous people know only too well...Carson challenged the 1940's-50's 'progressive' deployment of pesticides, herbicides+other chemical agent. Controlling nature may have unbridled reactions. https://t.co/eGdFHx7qLj

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 27, 2020

school curriculum due for change?....

There has been years of diverse opinions on how the school curriculum should be a stepping stone to life beyond school. There should be some clear connection, a relevance. Is this how to do it? Consider the students, consider the region and voila! https://t.co/Xcc3Eanetf pic.twitter.com/wodINT0weA

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 26, 2020

 

Radical thoughts...New subject groupings?
1. Awareness of land - Land+animal management incl. Aboriginal culture esp cool burning+gardening
2. Science - Botany, geology+astronomy attract more focus
3. Creativity - Art, Poetry, Drama+Music
4. English and Maths=connector literacy

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 26, 2020

You may notice that History has no mention. History can be a focus topic in any of the above subjects, opening the door to an understanding that History is far more than events + politics. History would then help to build an understanding of where we have been in these subjects.

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 26, 2020

Geography too has no special mention. It could be a vital focus topic in the awareness of land...hand in hand with History + wherever else it could enhance an understanding of a subject. History and Geography should not be exclusive, stand-alone subjects.

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 27, 2020

grand tour of writing vineyards...

the grand tour of writing vineyards
is drawing to a close
too soon
impulse local wanders are on
a loose agenda

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 26, 2020

possible showers...

possible showers and
possible cold winds
I forecast
possible reading
rugged up #tanka

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 26, 2020

which country...

🇦🇺 Australia - Victoria 🇦🇺 pic.twitter.com/AvsA9ZkKRG

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 26, 2020

string...

Sometimes...unexpected seers can be found in unexpected places... https://t.co/aVuTsNxkG0

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 26, 2020

I love the quiet, paced 'footsteps' in Tim Mallon's writing...But never underestimate the depth of those footprints...

Sometimes, I feel Tim captures a W.B.Yeats experience - a dialogue with self and soul...where one mirror dares to reach out to another... 

And it was grand to hear his voice, to watch his hands and see his pale eyes peer out to the gumtree hills.

And make no mistake, old Amos is eternal.

— Tim Mallon (@PatMalo85776814) September 27, 2020