In 2011, the remote community of Gapuwiyak gave Darwin the chance to share in a Yolngu Christmas. For the Yolngu, Christmas is marked as a time to 'make present' ancestral spirits (brirrimbirr) and to infuse the living with a renewed sense of purpose.https://t.co/ifyXoHPWLp pic.twitter.com/4AN7aN4Nou
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 23, 2020
Connecting moments in my peninsula world, my Australia and beyond...Whatever speaks to my thalassophile soul in these tidal days...
Wednesday, 23 December 2020
Christmas to an aboriginal community...
an unusual vintage Christmas card...
A most unusual vintage Christmas card...
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 23, 2020
Interesting that the fur around Santa's hat + neck and coat cuffs is not white... pic.twitter.com/vzgFp9rMwn
native Christmas plants for each Australian state...
Each Australian state has a native Christmas tree or bush...
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 23, 2020
6 Australian Christmas Plants https://t.co/c1nrsvdYGY
NOTE: The image below = Christmas bells in Tasmania pic.twitter.com/mAd846swf8
giant parasitic Christmas tree...
Australia's giant parasitic Christmas tree in south-western Australia has showy orange flowers have been likened to ‘a bushfire without smoke’. It's a member of the southern mistletoe family growing as a tree rather than a shrub attached to trees. https://t.co/iqghZcXVGE
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 23, 2020
fruit-stealing season...
In the early twilight hours, it's definitely fruit-stealing season on my peninsula... pic.twitter.com/G2IMGYtRUT
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 23, 2020
no homeless dogs...
NO HOMELESS DOGS...The Netherlands is the first country on Earth to completely eradicate dog homelessness. Adoption is now at an all-time high in the country, with one in 5 Dutch adults owning at least one dog.https://t.co/TBeL0zb08C pic.twitter.com/4q85oAxqRc
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 22, 2020
cicadas played backup...
A Very Aussie Christmas
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 22, 2020
From snow-blanketed Bavaria last year to Canberra for an Australian Christmas...'Today the cicadas played back up to the three Christmas carol albums my mum owns, their broken covers dusted off every year.' https://t.co/CP9gU3JKI6 @InterNationsorg
from my sea world to you...
From my sea world to you...
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 22, 2020
The joy of my happy place... pic.twitter.com/UMOYrxzskA
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