environmental crisis...

PASSING THOUGHT: I respect those who read the world as being in a climate emergency. But surely, the real issue is an environmental emergency, born of human tampering. Our indifferent neglect cultivates a climate crisis, interfering with the universal cycles of climate change. pic.twitter.com/n0TWdHiN6R

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) December 12, 2020

'Shutter Island'...

❤️❤️❤️'Shutter Island' (2010)-directed by Martin Scorsese+Leonardo DiCaprio stars...I watched this movie on SBS last night...It is a dark, psychological thriller, on an island, twisting perceptions of realities+pseudo-realities...Max Von Sydow takes a brief but disturbing role... pic.twitter.com/pTkoo0DX8p

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) December 12, 2020

Great article explaining the stages of the film (including the ending) is HERE 

non-traditional Christmas spirit...

PASSING THOUGHT: Any semblance of a traditional Christmas spirit eludes me these days...Getting older instils that mindset...Rather, I forge my own Christmas spirit...It's all about cleansing physical + mental worlds...It's all about finding new inspiring horizons...new peace... pic.twitter.com/ALji3eFJtn

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) December 12, 2020

Indeed, Christmas decorations are limited in my home now...They become small tokens of the season...maybe on my worktable or coffee table...like small reminders for the conscience... 

colourful grave marker...

An unusual, colourful appealing grave marker...
A snowman keeps vigil over a loved one’s grave in Wellton Memorial Cemetery, Wellton, Arizona.https://t.co/4e0RbzFEoJ pic.twitter.com/FQjuYdTork

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) December 12, 2020

Bridget Flack...

Bridget Flack...May she find her own special peace and may her poetry live on... pic.twitter.com/6Pne0IWR4E

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) December 12, 2020

Bridget Flack has not been seen since November 30, when she left Lygon Street in Carlton about 10am and headed to a Dan Murphy's in Collingwood before making her way to the Yarra River near the Collingwood Children's Farm. 

Ms Flack's last form of communication was a "general conversation" with a friend and colleague about 2pm that day, in which she said she was playing with ducks, Criminal Investigation Unit Detective Senior Constable Daniel Garside said today. 

Police believe the 28-year-old occasional DJ was around the Yarra Bend area in Kew near the Eastern Freeway when this conversation happened, and she has not been heard from by anybody since, nor has her bank account been active. 

The last time her phone was detected anywhere was December 2 in the same area. 

Ms Flack's sister Angela Pucci Love said her sister is a transgender woman, which could make her more vulnerable in the community and over the past three weeks she had expressed she was needing some extra help mentally. Source HERE

Police are trying to determine if the body of a woman found in Melbourne's inner east is that of missing woman Bridget Flack. 

The body was found in bushland in Willsmere-Chandler Park in Kew East at about 5:00pm on Friday.

sunshine and blustering winds...

sunshine appeals
but blustering winds
chill the air
duties beckon
but procrastination
slyly smirks#micropoetry pic.twitter.com/aEIsnc1X4r

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) December 11, 2020

sketching my furball...

PASSING THOUGHT: School's broken...in the sense that it has closed for the Christmas break...Yesterday we were invited to sign up for workshops...I chose portraiture...Pleasant experience drawing while music played...My little furball was my subject...My skills still need work... pic.twitter.com/uJs0bPhQ2Y

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) December 11, 2020

people can be trees...

And some people come into your life like a tree itself...ready to embrace you always...if you acknowledge the inner life they have to share... https://t.co/TSOv0XJVHc

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) December 11, 2020

past student...

PASSING THOUGHT: Student I taught 7 years ago - email today-'I very much enjoyed your company at school. You opened my mind to undertaking things that were scholastic in nature, but outside of school control; such as my english fictional story which you posted on your blog.' WOW!

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) December 10, 2020

The added surprise was that the student wanted to meet up with me for a chat and share his life journey... I was overwhelmed... That means several past students are wanting to meet me for a chat over the Christmas break... So thrilled...

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) December 10, 2020

what was I looking at?...

PASSING THOUGHT: Driving home from school in a bit of a befuddled, exhausted daze until I saw a head hanging out of a car window. The car was in front of me...The head looked like a black pig scenting the wind...But it must have been a big dog's head... But looked like a pig...

— Gemma Wiseman (@AuraGem) December 10, 2020