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Nature as teacher

A kernel of truth

February 26, 2007

Apologies for not putting up a blog last week. It’s just that I couldn’t find the motivation. In his book, The Devil in Tim, author Tim Bowden has written: If there is a piece of paradise on this earth, Peter Adams has come close to finding it with his coastal property Windgrove… No, my motivation [...]

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The Source

November 3, 2006

Two stories— somewhat related. One: Nothing like returning to the teat for a bit of nourishing milk…..at any time? Years ago, while living on Cheju Island in Korea (1969, 1970), I was told the folk tale about the father who went up to his son’s wife, pulled down the top of her dress and began [...]

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When our ship comes in, what then?

October 10, 2006

I was out on the southern cliff top checking on some recently planted trees when I saw a spider’s web stretched between several bamboo stakes. How the spider ever got to the top of each stake to pull tight a single strand of web to make things all taut and ready to catch flies, is [...]

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Our precious soil

September 7, 2006

This delicious looking, round, red apple is an organic apple. Many people talk about wanting to buy organic produce, but instead, choose non-organic because the price is cheaper. Most likely, these same people throughout the year give generously to environmental organisations. However, probably more important than funding WWF or Greenpeace is to use one’s money [...]

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We are here for each other

August 17, 2006

Earlier in the week as I was repairing several hundred damaged seedling trees that were planted last year and the year before and the year before that, there was a moment when exhaustion overcame me and I lay on the ground to recover both my physical strength and the emotional resolve to finish the task [...]

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Tree of Knowledge

August 2, 2006

On Sunday past, I was practising the Five Element Qi Gong with eyes half closed; mind half focused, half in trance. Gazing out the window I saw a hand floating in the air, pointing towards a row of books girdled around the massive eucalypt tree in the back yard. There, as though painted with the [...]

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A new alphabet

July 7, 2006

In a recent interview, David Abram, author of The Spell of the Sensuous, said this about the alphabet: …I’m not trying to demonize the alphabet at all. I don’t think the alphabet is bad. What I’m trying to get people to realize is that it’s a very intense form of magic. …I mean, it’s not [...]

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Port Arthur massacre – 10 years on

April 28, 2006

Port Arthur One can never know for certain that the blessedness felt today will be upon us tomorrow. So, how do we survive the change, the ebbing tide? And what sustains us when the moon of our being moves into those voids of the unknown, totally lost? Who or what can pull us out? It [...]

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A Cloud on Good Friday

April 14, 2006

A figure floating across sky. A Good Friday figure floating across sky. Falling or rising? Descent or resurrection? If Dying Means Becoming Pure Spirit Then I think it must be like falling, that giving-up of the body. Who wouldn’t try to catch hold of something fast, jerk forward, reaching with the fingers spread, before the [...]

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Maintaining the effort

March 24, 2006

In a letter to the editor of Tasmania’s Mercury newspaper this week, I wrote: It is said that a great society is known, not only for what it creates, but for what it refuses to destroy. In this letter I was making reference to the continual destruction in Tasmania of the precious old growth forests [...]

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