update on the packing saga...

PASSING THOUGHT: Update on the packing saga...
Some memories have been literally binned...
Other memories have been packed away and sealed with masking tape...
to be opened someday...
Maybe...

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) April 2, 2022

some shades in my yesterdays...

some shades
in my yesterdays
contrary questions
unfit for
nice answers#tanka

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 19, 2022

before I leave...

before I leave
I promise
I will visit you
you and me
the earth and sky#tanka

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 19, 2022

your birthday slipped by...

your birthday
slipped by
washed
a weighty load
of dark clothes#tanka

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) February 18, 2022

my dolls...

PASSING THOUGHT: One of those odd memory flashbacks...
I wasn't really a 'doll' kinda youngster...Not into Barbie dolls...
But loved my 2 arm's length dolls...Patsy💕(white)-a bridesmaid originally+Cherry💕(black)-red+white checked gingham+big gold earrings...
+a pram for both...

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 14, 2022

memory colours...

It's wild outside this morning in Dromana...
Wild winds and grey clouds dump lashing rain...
So I decided to resurrect some beautiful memory colours...
This is London Bridge Ocean Beach on the Mornington Peninsula in 2016... pic.twitter.com/rXMDsjaptH

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 4, 2022

in days gone by...

Remembering sweet summer wanders in days gone by...
This scene was at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat, 2014... pic.twitter.com/oYZPhwhd0o

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 2, 2022

Loved these little figurines lining steps at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat, 2011... pic.twitter.com/VsVRJHlHLN

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 2, 2022

These garden images always delighted me at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat, 2011... pic.twitter.com/6MUXX2QNaY

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 2, 2022

Some more magical garden art at the Enchanted Adventure Garden, Arthurs Seat, 2011... pic.twitter.com/4NTJmVonqP

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 2, 2022

scarred memories...

scarred memories
emotions
awaiting a healer#haiku

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 25, 2021

distant memory...

looking forward
to moving
Monday afternoon
to some very distant
memory#tanka pic.twitter.com/7JZpVu0S3h

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

other memories

late afternoon
spring winds
forgotten
other memories
breeze by#tanka

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

a moving, magical story...

There comes a surprise moment in this Twitter world, when a passing story steps up and quietly reaches out a hand to share and touches you deep inside...
This is one of those very real, very moving, very magical stories...
Follow the thread...
There is beauty here... https://t.co/QcmBK5nzIR

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

swift parrots buzz a flashback...

I've just been buzzed a flashback...
I used to live for many years in the Camden area and taught for many years in the Picton area...
Great to see these little feathered ones taking a refreshing dip... https://t.co/XK6WZ3uQlE

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) September 13, 2021

memories of Blackheath days...

Blackheath days seem so far away...
Quite normal to pack bags Friday after work+travel from Camden to the Blue Mountains- Leura+Blackheath - for the weekend...
In spite of all those travels, never saw snow there...
Sighhhhh...
(Love the footprints in the snow...Quite haunting...) https://t.co/UvLqwCCzYZ

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

my son was Vergil?...

An intriguing thread...
My son was about 5...Constantly he told me that his real name was Vergil (or Virgil)...not exactly a common name these days...He said he owned a big house in beautiful countryside...The only Vergil I know was a Roman poet (The Aeneid) in Augustus' era... https://t.co/J269MVTDzH

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

I have only slipped away into the next room...

This touched me deeply after my little musical longing last night...
'I have only slipped away into the next room...' https://t.co/AfLs9XtmJY

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

memories of 'Ryan's Daughter'...

I was obsessed with 'Ryan's Daughter' (1970) starring Robert Mitchum + Sarah Miles. (My romantic phase.)
Set in the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, (Irish insurrection against the British), a married woman in a small Irish village has an affair with a troubled British officer. pic.twitter.com/Mtbdeje0ii

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) July 30, 2021

in pre-dawn darkness...

in pre-dawn darkness
I feel a precious voice
from yesterdays #haiku

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) July 30, 2021

memories from yesterday's far never-never-land...

Wow...That brings back a tsunami of memories from the far never-never-land of my yesterdays... https://t.co/eqwHxYZdYj

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

constants and variables...

many memories ago
I believed
in constants
now I trust
variables #tanka pic.twitter.com/2R18d1MZDW

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) June 13, 2021

Bateman's Bay bridge moves on...

Many times in the 1980's-90's I travelled this bridge over the Clyde River on the south coast of NSW...
I always thought that it seemed to be so low to the water...
The bridge was built in 1956.
Farewell old friend... I still have the memories... https://t.co/sd7fDmsdk7 pic.twitter.com/wcpXQXOjU1

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