Trees are social and emotional beings like we are. They have families, live in communities, communicate via a vast underground communication network, share information and grieve. There is much to be said about our relationship to nature and why we mistreat it. Everything is perception. How we perceive the world is how we live in it.
Making Friends With Trees – Nature Gazing, Part 3 Read More »
When I feel off, I know what to do!.
Run to the nearest parkland, water source, or wilderness and stay there until I feel normal again.
Applying the practices of mindful awareness and patience – and allowing time and intentional focus on the natural and alive – bad moods shift, the mind clears up, and I can return home feeling more connected and less emotional.
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Nature Gazing
You have a complete view of the milky way on the balcony, and stars beam superbly bright, nothing like the city.
Come nature gazing with me, as I take you back to the simple pleasures of a star-studded night sky, Koalas after midnight, and frogs so loud, you can not help but laugh.
This unique documentary, narrated by Sir David Attenborough, catalogues footage captured during the lockdowns of 2020. The footage reveals how wild animals ventured into artificial environments to find food shelter and build new homes.
The Year Earth Changed Read More »
Can you make your lizard dissappear?
It’s time to design your very own invisibility cloak. Help your new buddy vanish into his backdrop.
Camouflage is the ability to hide in plain sight.
Can You Camouflage Me? Read More »
Meet Donald. Donald is a beetle that is missing a few bits and pieces. Because he is an insect that needs to fly, Donald should have 6 legs, 2 antennae, and wings that unfold from underneath a hard case called an exoskeleton.
Using your imagination – could you help Donald by adding in his missing parts?.
Use anything you like to draw, cut and paste, or stick new and creative legs, wings, and antennae to his body.
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“Truly traumatising and very violent”, says British reporter Phillip Schofield in an online review of the new television series, Squid Game.
Let’s talk Squid Game and children’s exposure Read More »
When we are welcomed to country we are invited to share in a promise to protect the land, the people, the animals, plants and waterways and uphold the lore – the way of nature.
Wominjenka is a Promise. Read More »
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are warned that this post contains names and images of people who have now entered the Dreamtime.
As I look over the gulley where the river, Birrarung glides through, I see a landscape dominated by the silvered trunks and slender green leaves of the Eucalyptus viminalis.
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For the next few weeks, take a walk with me through the place of the Wurundjeri Woiwurrung. I will help you see what I see as I walk the banks of the ‘River of Mists’. It is where I have begun to learn what it means to have a place ‘on country’ here in Melbourne and how it finally feels to be connected to where I live – from the ground up. This place is where I have started to heal my spirit by connecting to land, ancestry and nature.
From bush medicine and edible weeds, the Manna Gum and Birruang, I will show you what I know so far to be – Wurundjeri.
Welcome to Country!
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