soul place and soul people...

PASSING THOUGHT: I've lived first in southwest Sydney, then northern Tasmania+Melbourne's Mornington Peninsula.
Tasmania...My soul place...The landscape speaks to me...
Mornington Peninsula/teachers...My soul people...I have connected with people more here than anywhere... pic.twitter.com/h9yEECj7D0

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 17, 2021

passing weather post...

WARNING - Just another passing weather post:
Last night, an incredibly warm 'no blanket' night in the Dromana Hills....
(So much cool weather in recent days...
This change was a bit of a shock)...
Now, at 7:30am it is already 27°C + rising...
Has summer really appeared at last?

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 17, 2021

casting teaching chains aside...

PASSING THOUGHT: As days pass, more+more I am unchaining myself from teaching demands+thinking poetry, photography+sketching...
To do this each day is a brilliant dream slowly turning into reality...
Planning ways how my skills could promote my new home, a country community...

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 17, 2021

still haunted by pre-Christmas tragedy...

a cascade
of tears
for strangers
children and
a lost Christmas#tanka

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 17, 2021

VCE results...

PASSING THOUGHT: I'm basking in someone else's happiness+claiming a little as mine. A Year 12 Victorian student-taught for 3 years in his high school career (English, History+Geography), today received his ATAR of 97. Same student who gave me a thank you card before the results.

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 16, 2021

Massive shout out to Anthony Brown, teacher of Outdoor Education+assessor. He's one of those quiet achievers. For some years in a row, his students scored great VCE results. Always a 50 in there. This year, he secured his 50+8 students above 40.
A humble man I'm proud to know.

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 16, 2021

pre-Christmas tragedy in Tasmania...

I simply cannot find the right words for the Hillcrest Primary families in Tasmania who are suffering right now...
I've been haunted by the pre-Christmas tragedy since news first broke...
National tears keep coming...
So I offer Koori Brotha's words to all who may need them... https://t.co/5cbKRjUC7D

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 16, 2021

Deadly jumping castle incident at Hillcrest Primary School in Tasmania — everything we know https://t.co/FsF4twYOuI via @ABCaustralia

— tackles (@tackles66) December 16, 2021

Christmas lunch at The Heritage...

Delighted to share a Christmas lunch with friends yesterday in my special place - The Heritage, Balnarring... pic.twitter.com/RIETDynVE2

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 16, 2021

Paid for my 3 friends' Christmas lunch yesterday. Meant to be a huge thank you for all their support through my troubles this past year. Just checked a Christmas bag one friend gave me. (She texted me just now to check the bag again.) I found that she had tucked $50 into it...

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 16, 2021

hope you heal...

A very healthy attitude...
Hate may release even further untold nasties from Pandora's box...
While hope was left behind in Pandora's box...
'Hope you heal' is good natural medicine all round... https://t.co/7rimiFMYVX

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 15, 2021

Hate takes up more room than love.

Choose love and you will have enough for all.

Choose hate and you will be alone hating yourself in the end.

— SexHealthEd (@SexHealthEd) December 15, 2021

Hating someone damages your mental health. Stop letting other people live in your head rent free

— Nelson | Mufasa🦁 (@ThaSherriff) December 15, 2021

cockatoo in the apricot tree...

Just dropping by for some afternoon tea...
I am sure you forgot to invite me... pic.twitter.com/yR6mnf6sVi

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 15, 2021

Did I hear you say there was no afternoon tea invite...
O come on...You don't mean that...
All these juicy apricots should not go to waste... pic.twitter.com/e1vw3Upypj

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 15, 2021

please no 2022 border closures...

PASSING THOUGHT: With all the uncertainties in this pandemic, I am hoping the pathway is open for me when I propose to move from Victoria to NSW in April 2022.
A few fears are emerging...
If the pathway is lost, where will I live?
Please no lockdowns.
Please no border closures.

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) December 14, 2021