The Regathering / Holiday Provisioning Strategies
The Regathering In the beginning, or as far back as we can fathom, a functioning hunter-gatherer unit consisted of around 30-50 highly interdependent people with an intimate material and spiritual relationship with the plants and animals in the waters and landscape they came from. Today the smallest functioning post-industrial human family unit is one person […]
Between convenience and connection
Between convenience and connection Yesterday morning at a small café off Sydney Road I shared a plate of fried dumplings with my eight year old son. The café was empty apart from a solitary diner across the room sipping her wonton soup . As we ate our food we curiously watched a stream of […]
Trumping anxiety with splendid wrens, old friends and junior football
The cold and wet weather of the past three weeks haven’t been good for my horrible fascination with Donald Trump; I can’t stop watching the hateful pour out of the orange-faced school bully. I can’t quite believe what I’m seeing and hearing and can’t believe there are so many people who think and feel the same […]
