October 22, 2013 - Beauty in Black Clouds – and Dogs
And you offer her an umbrella.
Stories
August 23, 2013 - Home So Sweet
Home So Sweet .
There was a fine woman, who opened a fine house, that fed appetites lost from patches laced with weathering sticks – woven by hand and time. She offered a piece of her welcoming world and a heart rich like the earth she lovingly engraved. A home full of sweet delights. Where black felt bows and creamy cloth wrap around you like a shawl and cocoon the soul so snug. Where the rush to do, to see, to be, is held effortlessly still by orchard, earth and sky. And moments seem so endlessly full, they linger like a week. And when it’s time to go, you know you never really leave. For when the mind now wanders far or night does suddenly fall, memories of stars never so bright that cast a dome of wonder over such a rare and precious place – keep friendships fresh and memories forever close.
Find in ‘Clunk & Jam‘ book. Ruth’s farm, Yallingup Western Australia.
July 4, 2013 - Wisdoms of Rose Away With The Birds
Sometimes Rose couldn’t account for the hours in her day .
Although Rose meets each day with a slight brief, she often drifts off, leaving her with no recollection of time gone astray – and where she was when it went. She relishes this sweet form of freedom and the fruitful outcomes that arise from times when she does nothing of great significance at all – except maybe concentrating on her breathing. Long Live Rose.
Footnote: In a world where the rush to do, to see, to be, is so overwhelming at times, Rose’s footsteps are calm ones to follow – along with her ‘away with the birds’ philosophy that defies the more uptight others view of this being laziness.
(Wisdoms of Rose and Clunk & Jam 2019 books. Reposted from 2013).
June 20, 2013 - Pleasa Sava Mona
The changing face of beauty .
In a waiting room I picked up a plastic surgery magazine. The fact that plastic surgery is being promoted as a fashionable commodity is alarming. And we should be alarmed by the cultural movement towards the attainment of perfection – and the abundance of sexed up chicks and soft porn images that surround us – and our kids. And it’s not only women who are suffering from the promotion of an unattainable ideal. It’s men and kids too. Talk to young people and most of them don’t like what they look like. It causes them great agony – and it’s stopping them in their tracks. So let’s just keep questioning the ‘ideal’ being promoted on telly, internet, social media, in magazines, on catwalks, movies and stages – in doctors surgery waiting rooms.