And right on cue, I have just 22% charge left in my phone...
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 22, 2022
Awesome...
I shit you not, at precisely 2️⃣:2️⃣2️⃣PM today on 2️⃣2️⃣.2️⃣.2️⃣2️⃣ Melbourne’s temperature was 2️⃣2️⃣°C pic.twitter.com/r0mWcfvvxQ
— Janie ❥ (@CalamityJanie) February 22, 2022
My MELBOURNE K-12 school:
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 28, 2022
1. Some air filters e.g. 1x filter in my office (non-opening windows) of 9 staff. Double-storey classroom block - filters???
2. Some RATs for staff- more to come? Student RATS due Monday???
3. Many staff=covid over the holidays.
4. Staff fearful. 🤔
PASSING THOUGHT: It's a night riddled+spattered with cracking whips+booming drums - Melbourne weather style. I'm quite sure a slight tremor was in the mix too on the Mornington Peninsula.
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 27, 2022
But I'll just keep glowing re surviving 1st back-to-school day...even if it was all PD's...
A few quotes for today's spiky climate...
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 13, 2022
'We are all born mad. Some remain so.'
- Samuel Beckett.
'I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than in the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.'
- Reverend Malcolm Boyd pic.twitter.com/ldOtCc8mCY
debits and credits
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 1, 2022
my 2021 crises
paid off#haiku pic.twitter.com/JAcOJaUksb
Thanks to a Twitter post, I managed to get a chemist appointment 21st January-4 months after 2nd AZ vaccine exactly. Far better than my original 7th March doctor's appointment. But holding the latter till I actually attend the earlier appointment - just in case of supply issues.
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 1, 2022
Hoping your New Year is a time of steadily and safely moving forward, finding some happiness along the way.
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 1, 2022
Yes...It was a sweltering New Year's Eve and New Year's Day had just a smidgeon of improvement...
But today we have been blessed with some odd showers of cooling rain...
Usually, I loathe the yaddayadda of New Year's sales pitches...But Mark has nailed one New Year sale spiel I could quite happily put on loop...even letting it roll through January as a booster so to speak...
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 1, 2022
Brilliant Mark 👏👏👏...
You have sold me...👏👏👏
PASSING THOUGHT: Often, when a New Year begins, I like to think of a word for my personal incoming year. Immediately, I thought of the word 'survive'. But that has tones of being a defeatist. So I have opted for the word 'thrive' for 2022 - with just a few hints of 'survive'... pic.twitter.com/U6GJDQOrxl
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 1, 2022
PASSING THOUGHT: It's barely 11:00am and already the temperature is 34°C in Dromana.
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 31, 2021
Whispers of sea mist on the bay and barely a breath of wind...
One lone small yacht...
Notable absence - jet skiers...
Welcome to New Year's Day...
if darkness finds me
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 31, 2021
in 2022 and beyond
I will find ways
to remember light
the spirit of Melbourne#tanka pic.twitter.com/kgQEG8kIRL
My last New Year in Melbourne...
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 31, 2021
I needed to capture the moment...
Always love you Melbourne, but it's nearly time to move on to country spaces... pic.twitter.com/2MNUPVxGZT
A great story of thoughtful kindness to begin my Twitter posting for 2022...
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 31, 2021
Divers Gently Convince An Octopus To Trade His Plastic Cup For A Seashell https://t.co/i9lFTCwp1U
New Year's Eve...It's me and the crazy antics of the Blues Brothers. In some weird way, for even a brief time, all is right with the world.
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 31, 2021
A little humour, music and a little dancing somehow are a quick fix, even if I am only an armchair watcher...
town crier
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 30, 2021
newborn poised for
New Year colours#haiku pic.twitter.com/SgF7mX3z5S
The year started with a mouse plague and ended in a rat shortage
— The Chaser (@chaser) December 30, 2021
PASSING THOUGHT: Today's active covid data for Victoria+NSW is both tragic+devastating...
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 28, 2021
Note to Self - Toughen up your hope, kid for 2022...You are going to need it...
But more importantly, do what you must do to keep the dreams alive + always be kind to others along the way... pic.twitter.com/CJi4W4Alf3
Christmas to
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 28, 2021
New Year space
time
methodically resets
an identity#tanka
Thank you Susie Dent...
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 28, 2021
“Respair” has just one record next to it in the Oxford English Dictionary, from 1525, but its definition is sublime.
Respair is fresh hope; a recovery from despair.
May 2022 finally be its moment.
Long-lost positive words... https://t.co/yKMFFWjltO
So refreshing to see a federal leader making an effort to demonstrate understanding of peoples' (perhaps less than 'ideal') lives...Empathy is there...
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 28, 2021
You give us hope, Albo, that you could not only guide but support all Australians...
Give us hope+we will return the favour...
PASSING THOUGHT: With all the uncertainties in this pandemic, I am hoping the pathway is open for me when I propose to move from Victoria to NSW in April 2022.
— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 14, 2021
A few fears are emerging...
If the pathway is lost, where will I live?
Please no lockdowns.
Please no border closures.
