Greetings Sentient Beings Always extraordinary, abounding with creatures and vistas that simply take your breath away, the world in which we currently find ourselves is becoming increasingly astonishing. Thus, I will refrain from ‘mentioning the war,’ in order to protect someone but am having serious doubts about the likelihood of dead parrots surviving once someone […]
Do you get annoyed with yourself when you find you have to change your mind? Especially when you have been comfortable holding fast to your breast, well-nurtured and self-justified prejudices? I do. During more tender years I thought that at least one advantage of getting old would be to be able to get away with […]
Greetings Fellow Inhabitants With unintended irony and also distress, I write during Reconciliation Week in Australia (27th May – 3rd June) as the USA tears itself apart. By the time you receive this week’s diary Reconciliation Week will have passed however, it is appropriate that Gallery One acknowledges this national celebration of Australia’s First People. […]
Greetings and salaam As the COVID19 crisis passes in South Australia and our expectations of greater freedoms and a return to ‘normal’ life increase, will we make time to reflect upon how, or if, the world and our world-view has changed during what is a quite short historical period. If we take this time to […]
Greetings Chookens and Roosterlets As I write, the wind is up and blustering, the rain is coming down so, it’s time to huddle and take up without the glorious distraction of a warm sun toasting your back while you sit and read and enjoy the play around you that is the colours of autumn. Your […]
Greetings fellow island dwellers Were you scared? Were you worried? Did the sands move beneath your toes and make you topple for balance when first you tested those welcome tides of freedom? So, we are out and about, although not even air kissing but there is loo paper, pasta and sanitiser aplenty while […]
Greetings Gardenians For perhaps the most wondrous works of art are collaborations between gardeners & nature or when nature wings it, exquisitely alone. Artists are inherently connected to nature – the very tools of art derive from the earth and plants: dyes, stains, colours, textures, brush, pencil. Weavers, painters, embroiderers, carpet makers all embrace nature’s […]
Greetings Planetarians, Our thoughts this week centre on The USA and their unfortunate circumstances. (hand on heart, I will not mention politics) Front line workers world over face a terrible situation and have shown courage and tenacity, humanity and professionalism throughout this crisis. Currently, those workers in New York seem especially burdened and need our […]
Greetings Gallerians This week A friend and I came to the woeful realisation that we are afflicted with a severe case of the now common, Mush-Brain. To alleviate symptoms, we have taken to composing and sending each other limericks – well, about any/everything. While I will not go so far as to suggest limericks approach […]
Week 5 – Diary, an anchor during the day This week, shall we talk about diaries? We live in important historic times: everything is different now. Once, I heard my grandparents mention Spanish Flu but they never spoke of it in detail, described what it was like, who died, who was ill, how much information […]
