flood appeals...

flood appeals
reliable outlets
ensure
a little means
so much#tanka

NOTE: Till 31st March, IGA stores - Add $2.00 donation to shopper docket. 100% transferred to Vinnies Flood Appeal via IGA Community Chest Trust.

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 14, 2022

just spent the weekend with 'blue and yellow' posts...

YES! Should have been doing more packing for moving over the weekend+other general household duties...But achieved close to zip...Emotionally drained by world tensions+tragedies...My 'blue and yellow' Twitter posts amount to my minimal achievement...
Trying to kick start today...

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 1, 2022

I work part-time, so Mondays+ Tuesdays should be my time to get 'extras' done...That hasn't happened till this morning...And it has been a slow, sluggish  process... 

handpan with no hands...

The handpan with no hands...
The Queensland floods play their own unique song... https://t.co/J4ruz4pHZk

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 28, 2022

afternoon nap horror...

afternoon nap
horror
endless gallery
of war-scarred lands
framed in floods

🇺🇦 #tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 28, 2022

real-life living on the land...

The real-life of living on the land is beyond a romantic dream...
It can be a very dark place...
A dark reality...
And it need not be...
If only there was a little political empathy...and action... https://t.co/Mnl9ZQITtl

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) October 24, 2021

hubris...

HUBRIS - my word of the week.
1. Introduced 'hubris' to my Year 10 English students - beginning study of the play 'Frankenstein'...
2. Yesterday SMH referred to NSW premier's hubris...
3. Now 'hubris' connected with Europe and climate change.
Yes teenagers, it's a current word... https://t.co/IOy2yBc6WM pic.twitter.com/G9V00ONis7

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) July 31, 2021

"HUBRIS has been one of the defining features of Australia’s response to the pandemic, time and again over-estimating our capabilities and under-estimating the level of risk posed by the virus." https://t.co/zos4xOriJb

— Max Uechtritz (@plesbilongmi) July 29, 2021

There she goes again: “other states have been in & out of lockdown”. Somehow NSW is better at the moment because despite the scale of this lockdown- 222 people in hospital, 200+cases daily, this will be our * only one. 🤷‍♀️#Hubris

— Cheryl Kernot (@cheryl_kernot) August 1, 2021

foods and cyclones...

Floods seem to be the disaster of the moment in Indonesia, East Timor (Timor Leste) + parts of Queensland...
And tropical cyclone Seroja (meaning lotus flower) is on the way to the northern regions of Western Australia...https://t.co/Sf4MUshIka https://t.co/Y8HM1BKj26 pic.twitter.com/sAJnztMHai

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) April 4, 2021

floods ravage Australia's east coast...

floods ravage
Australia's east coast
but my metronome
water drips seem
friendly #tanka pic.twitter.com/gVFoAal0ZJ

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 23, 2021

Twitter blocking and floods...

PASSING THOUGHT:
Overnight...I've been blocked on Twitter...
Puzzled... a bit miffed... a bit hurt...
Young couple's home washed away on their wedding day...
Keep life's 'slaps' in perspective... pic.twitter.com/d1vkIBTRLx

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 20, 2021

monsoon floods...

a flood of clouds
drown streets
predictable
monsoon season
not so predictable #tanka https://t.co/ogz5Ws6CfG

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