phonecalls...

PASSING THOUGHT: Feeling PROUD+ON A HIGH...I made phonecall appointments this morning, one after the other...car tyres replaced, tax agent about retirement, bathroom tiles assessed + messages to appropriate people re what I'd done...No big deal to some...BUT I HATE THE PHONE... pic.twitter.com/MwhtzODHnj

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 22, 2020

Go to your happy place. Often...

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— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 21, 2020

A World of Calm...

SO looking forward to seeing SBS 'A World of Calm' - 10 episodes beginning 7:30pm 25th December...Each half-hour episode takes audiences on an immersive visual journey into another world.
'A World of Calm' on SBS https://t.co/lsFA6lcWzt via @FacebookWatch

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

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