Catchy Reflections in the Dappled Light
Argentina Mon Amour She had come in innocent curiosity, a description which suited her nature too. In Buenos Aires. I also captured by that land had discovered this one surprisingly in the sultry, old back waters of La Boca, in amongst the taverns and brothels of the...
Relationism & the Circular NFP Economy
DeGrowth Week Webinars Yesterday 10 July, I tuned into the DeGrowth Week of webinars being offered by NENA (National Economy Network Australia) and caught up with Donnie Maclourcan, an Australian with links to UTS who is now based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and who...
Questions of Identity—Australian Indigeneity
Of the 250 recognised language groups in Australia, many do not live on their ancestral Country, with 37 percent living in our urban areas, especially our capital cities where they speak only the English language. The greatest number (34 per cent) of Indigenous...
The Search for Identity in a Hybrid World – My Story
Hybridisation In this age of globalisation and multiculturalism, the question of one’s cultural identity has become problematic. Many of us are untethered from the place of our ancestors, either by personal design or by displacement due to wars and societal collapses....
Settler Transplants in Australia’s Ancient Soil
Australia’s Cultural Soil Indigenous people did not think of themselves as ‘Australians’ but as members of groups bound by a common language and shared cultural norms and values that prescribed their worldview and knowledges about their known ‘world’, including...
A Memorable Encounter in the Snow
The day I fell asleep driving, and ‘died’ – Stuart B Hill, 7 July 2022 As I wake up in our unheated bedroom, which I had painted Wedgewood blue and cream, I’m remembering that I had said YES to the request from my smart (and attractive) past student to give a talk...
Love is Everywhere – Robyn Catchlove
No 1 Public Nuisance Somehow, unexpectedly my heart has apparently blasted open ... Think it all started happening a few years ago, as gazing through the lounge window, me as usual grizzling away mentally about how awful the weather was, how where I lived wasn’t any...
Storying our Future Through the Creative Arts
An Annual Seven Valleys Arts & Culture Festival The Greater Blue Mountains Creative Arts Network (GBMCAN), which hosts the Regenesis Collective, has joined forces with Gang Gang Gallery, Lithgow City Council and Seven Valleys Tourism to plan for an annual...
Violence and Defying the Enemy Within
The Enemy Within—Identity Joe Williams runs a program called 'Defying The Enemy Within'. Joe is a proud Wiradjuri/Wolgalu, First Nations Aboriginal man born in Cowra, raised in Wagga NSW, Australia. I first encountered Jo through his appearance on The Drum, talking...
MOTHER WISDOM MEDICINE – AYAHUASCA
Taking Ayahuasca, the wisdom mother medicine was quite a shock. That is, I never expected the result it would bring to my life. Called Dieta, nine of us entered the 9 day retreat with the serious intention of healing our minds through knowledge by dieting intensively...
Ruby’s Beginnings – set in Australia’s early 1950’s—by Robyn Catchlove
God Goes Everywhere God goes everywhere. Maybe it was a vinegar stroke, certainly a masterstroke when He came to God’s Own Country. First Queensland, then the rest, not resting till He had initiated the faithful Vegemites into the right dream, The Great Australian...
White Male Fragility and Violence
Fathers and Male Violence This faded photo is of my father and mother in their old age. Now I am close to reaching that age myself. I know all about white male fragility and violence. My father was such a man. As a child I was just plain scared of him, and as soon as...