rough guide to the future...

SBS - Friday nights' treasure...'Kevin McCloud's Rough Guide to the Future' @ 8:30pm...Optimist Kevin McCloud sends Jon Richardson, Phil Wang+Alice Levine around the world to consider tech solutions for some of the biggest issues of our time. Meat tastes without killing animals? pic.twitter.com/kdcCT9IAVb

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 5, 2021

Beyond the tacky undercurrent that this seems to be a Vodafone 5G sales pitch, there's some positive thoughts...Chicken nuggets without killing chickens+robot waiters managed by bed-ridden disabled (meaning the disabled have an opportunity for a job)...
Could this be a reality? pic.twitter.com/iz6caG1MtD

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 5, 2021

my life has a new pattern...

PASSING THOUGHT: My life has a new pattern...
No big shopping centres or malls...
- but it's pleasant to visit small independent businesses. There's a welcoming friendliness there...
No shopping later in the day...
- but it's a peaceful relief to be the 1st in a shop... pic.twitter.com/Dp6qr5jGgS

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 5, 2021

another rainy reading day...

another rainy
reading day
happiness
wrapped in
raindrops #tanka pic.twitter.com/YNGpMV58i2

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 5, 2021

crazy?...

Constantly... I realise someone has not tweeted in some time + hope they are OK...
I refresh my Twitter and their post appears at the top of my timeline...

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

End 2021, considering moving from Victoria to Riverina, NSW...Right decision? Signs keep coming...Yesterday read Stan Grant's 'Talking to My Country' - Murdering Island...little known aboriginal history. Years ago took a school group there w. aboriginal guide...= Riverina

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

Strahan in sunset colours...

Tasmania offers the charm of many slower worlds, alternative lifestyles under the watchful eye of Mother Nature... https://t.co/QIqp5IfXOa

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

deep dialogue...

Inverell artist Cameilia Edwards, inspired by a photograph taken by Edwina Robertson near Carnavon, WA painted 'Kindred Hearts'. It took home last year's Inverell Shire Council Acquisition Prize.https://t.co/6XRk4VAn54

deep dialogue
needs
no special words #haiku pic.twitter.com/ZnHJueuox3

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

art of wet bark...

the art of wet bark
a paint box of
borrowed
ephemeral
earthy tones #tanka pic.twitter.com/9zSvb6oGLR

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 3, 2021

hope is the thing with feathers...

No matter Emily Dickenson's subject, there is always a calming force in all that she writes...a slowing down...a reflection...

'Hope is the thing with feathers...' https://t.co/XS36z9KtP4 pic.twitter.com/G24HCfSFnY

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) January 3, 2021