Discovering our inner ScoMo.
The other day as I watched Treasurer Morrison read out what we were doing with our almost $500 billion federal budget I thought about David Simon, writer of the television series, The Wire, who said the definition of society is what we do with the money, and it felt like we had just defined ourselves as a pretty short-sighted, […]
SMOKEY CORN AND THE PLANETARY PUSH NOTIFICATION
I noticed there’s a cleaning theme going on with some of the products on special this week. I don’t know where it comes from but lately I feel like there’s something of a simplify, declutter, clean-up thing going on in our collective consciousness . With all the KonMari-ing, digital detox and “Go without months” are […]
Flipping festive ill-will into thanksgiving. Those dates again.
It’s the last weekend before Christmas and the first of the school holidays, an already tense time aggravated by a blazing heatwave, whipped to a peak by a cruel North wind. It’s a perfect Yuletide storm; a season of ill-will to all.There are so many opportunities this week to lose it; to rail against the Gods of heat and the wind […]
Say Goodbye to Kale. The 2016 Unglut Your Gut Challenge.
Went too hard at work wind ups? Ate and drank things you’d never usually put in your body,and in worrying quantities? What about your stress levels? By the time Christmas rolled around were you already strung out from the end-of-year rush at work, traumatised by Christmas shopping, or mentally and emotionally “just hanging on” around […]
Come away from the light now. Cabbage Heart of Darkness Part II
It’s been two weeks since we closed for the Christmas break but it feels much longer. Wherever we may have been, whatever we have done, whatever has happened to us it’s time to come back to the everyday. Back to our roles as workers, students, volunteers, community members. And, unless they have been truly rotten, this is the […]
If we could be like Mike….
At a fledgling CERES site in 1984, aided by a crew of unemployed locals, Mike Hill started Australia’s first curbside recycling scheme. Letter-boxing the neighbourhood Mike asked residents to put their newspapers, bottles and tin cans out on the nature strip in a bag. And so people tentatively began “taking out the recycling”. The next […]
