if I owned a boat...

Hit me with your best / worst boat names for your imaginary boat all you imaginary billionaires! Let’s have a boat naming party 🍾🛥🎉

— Eileen Chong 张奕霖 (@eileenchongpoet) August 22, 2021

Seas the Day

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) August 22, 2021

Vitamin Sea

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) August 22, 2021

Wavelength

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) August 22, 2021

Gravy Boat

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) August 22, 2021

dancing gum trees...

It is almost as if the gum trees are in a hypnotic trance...
Quite magical... https://t.co/Wz0oPQVesB

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) August 22, 2021

scary story...

Morrison rules the world

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) August 22, 2021

my nights are locked in lonely eyes...

my nights
are locked
in lonely eyes
but my soul
feels differently #tanka pic.twitter.com/2qvKsTVDYe

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) August 22, 2021

tree wisdom...

Tree wisdom...
Bend with the times and the circumstances...
That's survival...
That's life... https://t.co/rgZt6SkOPf

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) August 22, 2021

Mornington Peninsula issue...

PASSING THOUGHT: While geographically it seems unfair to include the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne lockdown, there's more to the story. The MP's an escape, a scenic magnet to exhausted Melburnians. Holiday houses+motels=mere c.1 hr away=temptation+high risk. Keep MP metro...

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) August 22, 2021

It's a beautiful, warm sunny day in Melbourne...BUT, bearing out my argument, from my back verandah, I can hear MP traffic whirring on the freeway...Not all can possibly be travelling within the 5km limit...(No, no photo)...Travellers are desperate...So am I...I'm staying home...

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) August 22, 2021

children's lockdown empathy...

These pandemic kids. Honestly. Empathy is going to be their superpower. Their ability to withstand and stay positive in the face of extraordinary awful circumstances is something to behold.

— Jamila Rizvi (@JamilaRizvi) August 20, 2021

Completely agree and my boy is blowing me away with his empathy and ability to articulate feelings in ways that I’m pretty sure took me about 35 years to develop. Excited to see what leaders they will make - no doubt we’ll need them! 💙💙

— Sarah Anderson (@SarahIsSocial) August 20, 2021

let there be peace on earth...

'Let there be peace on earth
And let it begin with me
Let there be peace on earth
The peace that was meant to be...' https://t.co/ePSIpihZKz

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) August 21, 2021

Everybody Knows...

Perhaps this Leonard Cohen's song tends to be a little 'dark', but it hits all the current cords playing out to humanity...
Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling...https://t.co/m1odbuV3cL

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) August 21, 2021

a cosy surface is fair game...

Any cosy surface is fair game to a cat...no matter the circumstances...

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) August 21, 2021

welcome dawn birdsong...

welcome dawn
birdsong
classical rock
meets jazz
meets rap#tanka

P.S. And some just like to 'sit' and enjoy... pic.twitter.com/QIZo7wz0xw

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) August 21, 2021