time passing...

time passing
rolled by
the cycling seasons
tallied by
the ticking clock #tanka pic.twitter.com/qLATyxnn1j

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) June 7, 2021

birdfeeder rejection...

birdfeeder
essential
rejected by
the destruction of
construction #tanka
📷Neighbour's birdfeeder, once on their verandah, now parked on wire construction fence. pic.twitter.com/kEzYwseNhb

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) June 6, 2021

wind warning for Monday...

Interesting how the winds predicted to skirt the Bellarine Peninsula, on the west of Port Phillip Bay, but slam the Mornington Peninsula on the opposite side, the east of the bay.

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) June 6, 2021

confronting...

A confronting, heart-breaking image. For those who need hard-core evidence of how humans impact wildlife, this MUST be it. I can never forget 100's of cockatoos bombarding construction vehicles when land was cleared at Cranbourne. Pine trees were cut down. Hitchcock movie style.

— Gemma Wiseman - on Bunurong land, Kulin Nation (@AuraGem) June 6, 2021

motivation stirred...

morning skies
beauty stirs
slow motivation#haiku

📷My Dromana Hills morning needed a sound jab of Nature's healing pic.twitter.com/S8TV3OkljI

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

and only through my tears...

And only through my tears
did I find my smile https://t.co/TQhK9GZSgI

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

gentle protective hug...

Love the gentle 'hug' of the hands...as if protecting the aura of the tree...
A beautifully symbolic sculpture...

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

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole...

On those odd days, when I need some special healing, this is one of my treasured healing songs...
Aloha ka manini by Israel Kamakaiwo`olehttps://t.co/7usG7Co14E

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

And this is another...

art on a water tower...

Art on a water tower, Heywood sw Victoria...
And what a story behind the art...
Some 102 years since the 5 Lovett brothers asked for a forbidden beer.
Once scorned, for being black, these Lake Condah Mission, WWI fighting men of Budj Bim now soar high. https://t.co/5qmYu5sRfW

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

The Heywood water tower story (in my last tweet) offers only a glimpse into the Lake Condah Mission.
There is far more to the background story of the Lovett brothers.
Intriguing, shocking, humbling reading...
The lost souls of Condah who joined the Anzacs https://t.co/5V2k34IvoE

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

Condah – like many little rural places around Australia – barely exists now beyond a pub and a public hall, a lonely cemetery and a scattering of dwellings and farmsteads. In 1915 there was a general store, a bank, post office, three functioning churches – Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian – a state school, a cheese and butter factory and the old Green Hills Hotel. 

Down the track a few kilometres and encircled by forest was another village entirely: the Lake Condah Aboriginal Mission. Here, the lava flow from nearby Mt Eccles – Budj Bim, or Little Head to the original inhabitants – and the wetlands within and around the stones, had supported one of Australia's most remarkable Indigenous peoples for thousands of years.

word salad...

word salad
political bites
sans nutrition #haiku pic.twitter.com/xeJmKNbXOr

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