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October 13, 2005

Just after 8 AM. My walk to the Peace Fire to replenish the eternal flame and shake out my bones to wake up sleepy muscles has been done. I now sit in one corner of the house in my favourite cushioned breakfast seat quietly munching toast. To my left are French doors that open to [...]

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Moving on

September 29, 2005

A whisper of hair across a pensive look whilst a whisp of wind guides tomorrow through the air. Long time friend and colleague, Alexandra deBlas, has just resigned from her job as an environmental journalist with the ABC. And, no wonder. A few months earlier “the board” axed her highly rated and highly successful Earth [...]

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Margaret Scott 1934-2005

September 9, 2005

On the Monday morning of last week as I was driving off the Tasman Peninsula taking resident artist Melanie Mowinski to the airport to fly back to the other side of the world (and over hurricane Katrina), our dear Margaret Scott departed as well; aged 71. Not, however, to another world. Her spirit and body [...]

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Honest John

May 6, 2005

Over the past three years plus, John Kent has delivered around 40 tons of wood for the Peace Fire. He fells and splits the tree by hand. Hard, honest work. This morning he jumped out of his truck with a gift of gold in his hands. For me. Seven juicy apples. “I just thought you [...]

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Ritual retreat

March 30, 2005

Exhaustion overtook me late this morning. Seeking to enter into the comforting cave of sleep I abandoned the crisp, clean, cloudless blue sky and sought out the soft pillowed couch by the fire place in the sheltered darkened interiority of my house. Oh, how protected I felt as my animal body curled up and nuzzled [...]

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Lasting beat

February 24, 2005

What is the sound of twelve djemby drums in a room with no people? The answer might be found in the following little story; a story that is part of a larger story: “…… There was once a physicist who also played the violin. One morning, he took his fiddle to the lab, wrapped it [...]

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Windgrove Laureates 2005

January 13, 2005

Windgrove Laureates 2005 Helen Gee (Tasmania, Australia) Wendell Berry (Kentucky, USA) Satish Kumar (England) Margaret Scott (Tasmania, Australia) Phillip Adams (NSW, Australia) Beverly Reeler (Zimbabwe) Mary Oliver (Massachusetts, USA) Pete Hay (Tasmania, Australia) It gives me great pleasure in announcing the above people as the Windgrove Laureates for 2005; people I personally feel have remained [...]

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Deciding weekend

October 28, 2004

Over the past several months, the financial situation here has been squeezing me closer and closer to selling up Windgrove and moving back to America where I was invited to join an intentional community in Hawaii. Not a bad option, actually — if I only think of Me. However, when I see how important Windgrove [...]

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Time well spent

October 21, 2004

They slept on the couches, the window seats and in the bus. Last weekend six university students from Japan, America and Australia came to Windgrove on the Friday/ Saturday and, as they were leaving, seven more people (plus two month old Nui) showed up. When the last of them left on Monday, I was tired [...]

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Nines and more

September 15, 2004

I was serving up stacks of pancakes this past weekend to a house full of children, dogs and happy parents when it dawned on me that this is the work I do best: being in service. Don’t know much about geology. Don’t know much trigonometry. But I do know that I love to serve. And [...]

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