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Chris and I take the walk

August 9, 2007

Gabi Mocatta, a freelance photo journalist, came by yesterday to gather information for an upcoming story about Windgrove. Even though it had been a month since I had last walked the land, I didn’t want to confine myself to the house for the interview as it is easier for me to talk more articulately and [...]

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More alike than ever

July 10, 2007

A year ago I used the above Amnesty International photo of a Sudanese refugee who was shot and wounded while defending his daughters from armed militia members who tried to rape them. Looking, then, at his eyes, I had asked “what is dead and what just might be green and moist, tender, loving, even hopeful?” [...]

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Intergenerational

May 9, 2007

So who comes to Windgrove to partake in its natural beauty and restive charm? Disembarking from the bus are 50 people from the states of New South Wales and Victoria; here in Tasmania and Windgrove (last Friday) as part of a tour organised by the Australian Garden History Society. These people are mostly 40 years [...]

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Traveling light through life

April 4, 2007

The first tragedy to strike our tight knit community this past week was the passage by the upper house of the pulp mill fast track legislation that had been approved by the lower house the previous week. The bill is so bad that it does not allow any prosecution of proven criminal intent by Gunns [...]

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Tapestry

November 23, 2006

Beautiful You’ve got to get up every morning with a smile on your face And show the world all the love in your heart Then people gonna treat you better You’re gonna find, yes you will That you’re beautiful as you feel Waiting at the station with a workday wind a-blowing I’ve got nothing to [...]

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Gifts of sharing

November 17, 2006

This morning I shared half of my breakfast mango with a pademelon and her little joey. For anyone familiar with addictive mango behavior, this was a genuine sacrificial gesture. This is spring time when the land should be abundant with luxuriant, green growth; a time when mothers feeding their young should have an easy time [...]

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The Tiny moving the Mighty

October 5, 2006

This is a great story. A story that supports and gives hope to the many individuals in the world seeking change, but who sometimes, like myself, wonder and doubt that their work is having any affect; especially, on those hugh and seemingly immovable government or corporate bodies. On Monday, as I sat in the bull’s [...]

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Working to a greater good

June 24, 2006

Just as the winged energy of delight carried you over many chasms early on, now raise the daringly imagined arch holding up the astounding bridges. Miracle doesn’t lie only in the amazing living through and defeat of danger; miracles become miracles in the clear achievement that is earned. To work with things is not hubris [...]

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Two fearsome photographs

May 25, 2006

Geoffrey Lea is a Tasmanian environmental activist whose tool of choice is his camera. Recently, he was named Canon/ Landscape Photographer of the Year 2006 and deservedly so. The stunning photo below, of sea breaking over rocks taken at Port Davey in Tasmania’s southwest, gained a gold distinction and was ranked in the top ten [...]

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Old friends

October 27, 2005

I first met the iron worker/ sculptor, Bill Brown, when he was a hell raising 19 year old chasing, in equal measure, women and the demons within himself. This year, turning 50, he reckoned that a good way to celebrate both his birthday and his 25 years of being totally committed to Alcoholics Anonymous would [...]

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