Bali returns to old ways...

In 2020, a year without tourism, Bali went back to 'the old ways of living' and the old ways meant seaweed farming...
So what's next when/if tourism returns?....https://t.co/WchmfVi3Xi

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 11, 2021

scarf knitting daily in 2020...survival...

2020's time, temperatures and weather measured in wool colours...An incredible, creative project that ultimately has a practical use...The melding of practicality and symbolism... https://t.co/X1YayLKx7N

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 1, 2021

this blog continues...

I'VE DONE IT! 2020 has finally closed...and I have blogged every day...sometimes multiple posts...
But I feel that 2020's world has not really closed...
It still lingers...
and so will my blogging...
daily... pic.twitter.com/dkm7rZ0fJ0

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 1, 2021

current 2020 tone in the room...

I think Matt Haig nailed the 2020 tone in the room...
and batted it right out... https://t.co/MbOnUkn4CT

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 30, 2020

2020 is melting...

2020
is melting
in the dark
it's time
for 1 more #tanka pic.twitter.com/D2tXkl71fy

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 30, 2020

Hastings foreshore...2020 signs...

Significant 2020 signs on the Hastings foreshore... pic.twitter.com/QOWf9ASkyF

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 29, 2020

leading into 2021...

Leading into 2021, I love these foundation thoughts from Matt Haig... https://t.co/tpoO5nI2fJ

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 28, 2020

my year in books...

Check out #MyYearInBooks @goodreads to see the 13 books I read in 2020! https://t.co/k7o89HxREN

'World Without End' Most Popular
336,705
people also shelved
'Lost Diamonds of Killicrankie Least Popular
90
people also shelved pic.twitter.com/3LEDnBvTd5

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 18, 2020

the year of the mask...

uninvited change
questions float in suspension
the year of the mask #haiku https://t.co/faRDrO95st

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) December 16, 2020

Twitter comments on a covid-19 Christmas...

Christmas suffers major setback after police limit pipers piping and maids a milking to six per household.

— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) December 4, 2020

I guess the Lords and the Ladies are exempt.
One rule them one for the rest of us.

— andrewk 3.5% #FBPE #RejoinEU (@AKondakor) December 4, 2020

It's fine, they're high value business travellers

— Kate (@ThisIsKateL) December 4, 2020

3 French Hens stuck in Brexit lorry park

— Barbara Bell (@BarbaraBell17) December 4, 2020

On the Twelfth day of Christmas the Govt advised me: two groups of six drummers drumming.

— Void Consumer (@DataGregr) December 4, 2020

Those swans ain’t fairing much better.https://t.co/uDjgIfUVvd

— Jon Bailey (@SloopJontyB) December 4, 2020

And the gold rings now need to be copper due to its antimicrobial properties

— HRH Prince Philip (@PrincePhil_M) December 4, 2020

if 2020 has taught me anything...

If 2020 has taught me anything, it must be this concept...now top of my list... new directions emerging...an old me finally daring to take a role centre stage... and feel it's that's right... https://t.co/DlJYXq9LVd

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) November 21, 2020

Twitter voice of the people...

Twitter 2020 is fast becoming 'the voice of the people'. If politicians really want to get in touch with the people - their mood, their context, their issues + challenges - then it would be advantagous to scroll the Twitter universe regularly. But maybe one glance + they hide...

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) October 21, 2020

crisis meets crisis...

'A picture is worth a 1,000 words' = a bit of a platitude... But s'times, even platitudes come alive...What else is there to say to a photo of current LNU Lightning Complex fires in Napa Valley whirling round a 2020 sign.

Crisis meets crisis.

- by @noahberger3884 in California pic.twitter.com/5vmypTQ2em

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) August 21, 2020

2020 - the year of philosophers?...

Friedrich Nietzsche once observed that when things are going well, we tend not to bother ourselves too much with the how or the why of our delight.
Pain, on the other hand, makes philosophers of us all.
Contrast the Stoic with Sartre's existentialism... https://t.co/Fdz03q3BzK pic.twitter.com/QF39EL3elD

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) July 11, 2020