From the category archives:

Celebration

A path into the heart

February 14, 2010

Today is Valentine’s Day. A day when the heart speaks, should speak, of felt love.
And not just of the personal — the love that flows between two people — but also, even more importantly, the throbbing intensity that should be felt between all people and the earth.

Over and over again I keep coming back [...]

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A Christmas gift

December 30, 2009

My replication of Goldsworthy’s “sticks-in-the-air” is in celebration of finally having some 500 plastic bags and 2000 bamboo sticks removed from trees near the Peace Garden Pond. Trees that formed the bottom portion of a gigantic keyhole symbol (if viewed from the air).
To do this required the generous international cooperation of people born in [...]

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Celebrating what we already have

March 13, 2008

Most readers would be familiar with the story of the two people who are looking at a drinking glass that has been filled to the half way mark. One optimistically says, “It’s half full” while the other person says in a more pessimistic voice, “It’s half empty”.
Since writing last week’s blog entry about the young [...]

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Seasons greetings

December 27, 2007

A Christmas walk through the wet, eventually snowy, alpine rainforest of Mt. Field was a real holiday treat. To have opened up in front of our eyes the beauty of blossoming red waratah, wet barked snow gums, ancient pencil pines and numerous pandani in a dense carpet of understory was a gift wrapped present of [...]

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Seasons greetings

December 27, 2007

A Christmas walk through the wet, eventually snowy, alpine rainforest of Mt. Field was a real holiday treat. To have opened up in front of our eyes the beauty of blossoming red waratah, wet barked snow gums, ancient pencil pines and numerous pandani in a dense carpet of understory was a gift wrapped present [...]

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Hearts and 3’s aplenty

June 27, 2007

The above “33 hearts mandala” was one of three mandalas gifted to me yesterday by Sally; a day that marked 22,280 days in procession that I have walked this earth—just over two thirds of the way to where I hope to end up having had a life of 33,000 days.
I like the number three. Open [...]

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Gamble everything for love

February 14, 2007

Break off my arms, I’ll take hold of you
with my heart as with a hand.
Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat.
And if you consume my brain with fire,
I’ll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.
Rainer Maria Rilke

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Jumping in

February 2, 2007

Sally moved to Windgrove this week. After returning from China, she packed up her Melbourne belongings into her little red car, took the overnight ferry across Bass Straight, drove six hours down the middle of Tasmania and then arrived at Windgrove for the start of an uninterrupted year long stay before she returns to Melbourne [...]

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A Possibility

August 10, 2006

Although true, it is too easy to just say that the shadow figures nudging up to the Peace Pole are myself and my partner Sally.
Although true, it is too easy to just only talk about the love that spirals up between the two of us and abandon the rest of the world.

What I want [...]

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Condolences not needed

June 29, 2006

Love comes quietly
Finally
Drops around me
on me
in the old way.
What did I know
thinking myself
able
to go alone
all the way.
Robert Creeley

This week I reached 60 years of age. Wow. Who would have thought this would have ever happened? Especially, to “us”, the first of the generation of spoiled, baby boomers (1946 – 1960)? Crossing this threshold is, indeed, [...]

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