Illusion is...

Lubko Deresh - “Illusion is the truth that was passed through the filter of self-righteousness.”
🇺🇦Lyubko Deresh is a young Ukrainian author born in Lviv, Ukraine.#quotes #Ukraine

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) March 4, 2022

more than I am...

PASSING THOUGHT: More+more I feel I'm attracted to writers who discard academic superiority+some right to sanctums of ethereal wisdom. The writer who woos me walks the earth unfettered by fashion+popular culture -walks with me, talks with me+encourages me to be more than I am... pic.twitter.com/u9sioesYuv

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

the writing process...

the writing process
building and
weaving
the warp and
the weft#tanka pic.twitter.com/6wjvxQNez5

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) September 18, 2021

I woke up in a bed of clothes...

'I woke up in a bed of clothes and my pj's were made of plants. I sat on a rug of cats...'
Yes...A little fantasy is the new healthy reality...No need for vitamins from Chemist Warehouse...Just taste+drink in the possibilities of repurposing lockdown as a freedom...Bring it on... https://t.co/ib6RvT1Rp9

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

Talking to My Country...

'Songlines on the Winds' - my poetic review of Stan Grant's 'Talking To My Country'...

history weighs heavy
for some

blood and bone
buried deep in a land
one day
may emerge
and bring
a new light
to a filtered
scrubbed
past....(more)https://t.co/OJ94Mc9qEM pic.twitter.com/D55Q64sgPi

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

So sad that the following is one of many comments now emerging about Stan Grant...

Are these comments all true? I don't know... But it does seem that importance is weighing the real Stan Grant down these days... 

Agree. Stan Grant is another I can’t watch anymore.
Obviously thinks a lot of himself - this sense of grandeur seems to seep out of his pores these days. https://t.co/7k4Waubh1O

— 💧Linda McAvenna (@LinnyAMcA) January 5, 2021

'Talking to My Country' begins...

Stan Grant's 'Talking to My Country has just arrived...
Opened and began reading...

Page 2 - 'I want to tell you about blood and bone and how mine is buried deep in this land...

I'm hooked... pic.twitter.com/j006S512Jy

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

From Snow to Ash...

I took the recommendation...
Read and loved ... ❤️❤️❤️
Did a Goodreads review + poetic review...
https://t.co/O1zowe1x9k https://t.co/U9DPFFQB5X

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

Dostoyevsky...

Dostoyevsky (born today) on Why There Are No Bad People — maybe, only wretched ones.
Love the quote: about the universal human tendency to deflect insecurity by lashing out:
'The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.'https://t.co/80Ecx7Xgo2 via @brainpicker

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) November 11, 2020

a little furball, a book, a page + writing...

Adore the quote... + adore Christine Ellger's image. I relate closely to both... https://t.co/zS1LMFXCDm

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) October 23, 2020

Monday mentions

Thanks so much for noticing me...Appreciated...🙏
Enjoy your week everyone...

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 28, 2020

Only just found I was tagged in #Monday mentions by Llewellyn-Mackenzie Communications ... Great to have my writing noticed... 

Silent Spring...

Rachel Carson's work highlights a need to value the environment... a need savvy indigenous people know only too well...Carson challenged the 1940's-50's 'progressive' deployment of pesticides, herbicides+other chemical agent. Controlling nature may have unbridled reactions. https://t.co/eGdFHx7qLj

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) September 27, 2020

how civilisations heal...

"This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal."

- Toni Morrison

— Deborah A. Bennett (@dabennettpoet) May 30, 2020

And this is how I breathe, survive and heal daily... dreaming and thinking and writing  (repeat)

writing addiction...

Writing helps me to survive other demands and pressures. When they overwhelm...I write...Then go back to duties for Rounds 2 or 3 or 4... Writing is a healthy addiction... from my point of view...But others may see procrastination sneering in the wings...

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) May 24, 2020

being shy...being a writer...

“Most novelists are at the shy end of the spectrum—sly watchers of life rather than noisy graspers of it,” novelist Patrick Gale wrote in 'The Guardian'. “Many of us have had to overcome that and develop a performative persona behind which the sly watcher can continue to lurk.” https://t.co/ApncyS2YpK

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) May 15, 2020