Good King Wenceslas...

A song sung regularly at Christmas, but I never thought to ask the question who 'Good King Wenceslas' may be...He seems like an early version Robin Hood...This great story highlights the idea that true Christmas joy is in the giving... https://t.co/xewACFd5V8

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 20, 2020

earthquake near Douglas Park...

Perhaps only a small earthquake...But this one is near my earlier life in NSW... A 3.9 earthquake was there January 4, 2017. 22nd May, 1961, not too far away, in the Southern Highlands, a 5.5 at Robertson was felt for 50,000 square miles. A 4.2 in 2003 at nearby Mittagong. https://t.co/SLiNkz8M7V

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 20, 2020

Amos muses on a distance...

and I went out to yonder gumtree hills to see Old Amos today

went out through the trembling rain, along the black tar ribbon, went out to him

and while we talked Old Amos tinkered with fishing line and such

and he talked of rivers and creeks and lonely up-north beaches

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— Tim Mallon (@PatMalo85776814) December 20, 2020

2-2

and I watched his ironbark hands deftly tie knots, saw how he didn't flinch when the hooks nicked his skin.

and Old Amos looked out to the rainy hills; and his pale eyes squinted as if they had seen something there in the distance, something that only he could discern...

— Tim Mallon (@PatMalo85776814) December 20, 2020

penguins watch Melbourne lights...

I've posted this image before. Still love it. Still love the back story. “A volunteer approached me and told me that the white one was an elderly lady who had lost her partner and apparently so did the younger male to the left,” Baumgaertner explained. https://t.co/X2VJjXglWF https://t.co/qiyuVdOfLq

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 20, 2020

First posted this on 21st April with Shu Ting's poem

Then on 7th June 

a furball and Christmas...

Christmas is ultra special when our furballs make a contribution... Their gift is a smile...Paper, tinsel, tree...anything is fair game... https://t.co/Eisk6s0cjS

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 20, 2020

give Mrs Claus a role...

PASSING THOUGHT: In line with our professed 'equality maxim', wouldn't it be nice to see a Mrs Claus alongside Santa in department stores... I am sure those children wary of photos with Santa would appreciate her presence and be more relaxed... https://t.co/pPTt6xORaq pic.twitter.com/ETy8qVBv4M

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 20, 2020

fresh philosophy between the wars...

❤️just look, really look, at what’s there in front of you, they say. Read, observe, describe, follow your mind, be fearless, critical, creative, wondrous and above all don’t be fooled by easy habits, commonplace clichés, orthodoxies, ideologies, cults, or obscurantist nonsense❤️ https://t.co/k3jfPJ1RX8 pic.twitter.com/H4Buz2f9Ko

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 19, 2020

Colbinabbin silo art...

Adore SILO ART... And the variety of ideas emerging is intriguing... This is a view of silo art by Tim Bowtell at Colbinabbin, regional Victoria...The town's name means 'the meeting of the red and black soils'...https://t.co/rkX4CThjew pic.twitter.com/naHbtouzuC

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 19, 2020

Australian cooperatives...

Australian co-operatives interest began in 1839, NSW=concern with the price of bread + flour. The first known co-operative in Australia was established in Brisbane in 1859. Now cooperatives are taking over pubs, stores + solar farms to save country towns. https://t.co/lyS9ei0750

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 19, 2020

gauzy sunlight...

gauzy sunlight
muffles a
slow Sunday morning
the dawn chorus
is late today #tanka

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 19, 2020