The last few months I have had a special top secret project. I have been making a book to celebrate my dear husband’s 50th birthday. But I haven’t been making it alone. His friends, family, students and more have been emailing and sometimes telephoning me stories, and photographs. There have been poems, telegrammatic messages, aContinue reading “Celebrating Half a Century”
Think Universe
Originally posted on Ripple Poetry :
Dancing – June Perkins For all my friends who’ve lost a baby ‘Think universe,’ said the tiny spider as it climbed upon its web. ‘Think universe,’ said the river as it flowed from the mountain to the coast. ‘Think universe,’ said the star as it looked on down from space.…
The Universe Within
“Dost thou reckon thyself only a puny form when within thee the universe is folded?” – Baha’u’llah, The Seven Valleys and The Four Valleys-The Valley of Wonderment Latest contribution to Nineteen Months. To view some of the other moving photographic responses to the theme of ‘Light’ visit Nineteen Months
Reflection on Working with June
I have known June Perkins in my capacity as a Community Development Facilitator since 1999. From 2000 to 2002 June worked extensively with the ACT Indigenous Writers Group in recording their Oral Story Project through monitoring and evaluating the successive stages of the project, interviewing participants and providing an evaluative report which was invaluable toContinue reading “Reflection on Working with June”
Meeting an Anthropologist
Rotorua, in Aoteroa/ New Zealand, has one of those aromas that you can never forget and which is hard to escape. For me the strong smell of the sulphur is overtaken by an experience that has represented a watershed in the process of doing my thesis. Something I could never have foreseen. The program inContinue reading “Meeting an Anthropologist”
