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Do you ever sit on your porch nursing a cuppa and marvelling at the planes flying across your piece of sky? Do your thoughts wander to the conversations and fidgeting happening in the seats as people, (quite a few of them), settle in, high above, for the ride. And then, does the wonder go to…
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Its been a moment since the last post. That is how it will always be with this blog – the writing coming one idea after another in hasty bursts. Then a pause. I am an avid journal maker and diarist. I have a big wooden chest filled to the brim with diaries, journals and notebooks…
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I want to talk at length about the imagination. Talk about how it has shaped the human species, how it is a catalyst for change. How the imagination is our most powerful gift. And, in due time, I will discuss all that here. However first, I ask that you join me for a little imaginative…
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I once visited a lighthouse down on a rocky tip of the southern Australian coastline. The carpark to the lighthouse was a white walk. The damp cold breath of the Antartic air was blowing thick against the shore. Bright white fog swallowed the sea, the coastline and the path. It didn’t just blur the edges…
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This is the heritage listed and iconic Benalla Rocket Ship Slide. It is a piece of play equipment set in the beautiful rose gardens of the rural Victorian town, Benalla The red and yellow 1960’s structure is a relic of postwar Australia, when space and the space race dominated our collective imaginations. When every little…
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One day, much to the horror of my family, I found myself bored and armed with a packet of googly eyes. Monster googly eyes, to be precise, in all sorts of colours. As I wandered about the house making weird things weirder. I wondered if I could incorporate googly eyes into my work without it…
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The ritual of dressing belongs to everyone on the planet, nearly every day of their lives and the clothes have a lot to say about this. I’ve been scrolling some YouTube fashion content and I have seen quite a few videos of excited women with their hauls of shopping. Bag upon bag upon bags of…
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We decided as a family that if there was such a scenario where a mob boss, or equivalent villain, wanted to threaten someone, they could add extra menace, a bit of unhinged absurdism, by looking directly at the victim and eating a banana. It would not matter how they ate that banana, as long as…
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I have always wanted to live in a musical and on two special occasions I did I find spontaneous singing so moving and exhilarating. Whether it is the football fans swarming the streets after the game, loudly singing the champion’s anthem. Or, the crowds being swept up in song as they leave the concert’s venue.…
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I don’t like rules around colour, they are very silly. Red and green should never be seen? Tell that to a rose. Pink is never to be next to orange? The sunsets seem to manage it. And no shade on any who use it, but a lot of the rules in colour theory can go…
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