Yesterday evening I sang Buffy Saint Marie’s ‘Universal Soldier’ and that about sums up how I feel about war… Today Australia remembers the Anzacs and many other soldiers still out in the field. Here is Buffy talking about what inspired this song, followed by her singing it. Here is a poem of my own aboutContinue reading “‘Universal Soldier’”
The Hidden History Album Project – An Album to Support!
So excited to let you know about Alesa Lajana and her Hidden History Album Project, a song-writing endeavour established for the creative exploration of post European contact Australian history through music. I first met Alesa, at the Yungaburra music festival after listening to her perform works from her ‘Celtic Gypsy’ Album. My young sons wereContinue reading “The Hidden History Album Project – An Album to Support!”
Jadella Lies
I am so excited that the Hairy Harold, the kick starter project, I supported last week is going ahead. Now this week I am encouraging any of my blog readers who love supporting youth living in remoter parts of Australia to support Jadella Lies. Sonja is a highly motivated and talented young lady who has beenContinue reading “Jadella Lies”
For celebration of the ‘glory’ and ‘to make a better world’
The realm of glory is not something I can depict in a realist photographic approach. It is something, unknowable, untouchable, and so my focus is more to the essence of the shape of things, the abstract. “Verily His Call will draw thee nigh unto the realm of glory and will cause thee to extol HisContinue reading “For celebration of the ‘glory’ and ‘to make a better world’”
Peer Testimonial
June Perkins is a peer, a mentor and a friend. I sense the creativity that surrounds her whole life as she uses the latest technologies to express the world she sees. June’s photographs, poetry, videos as well as published written works are shared in her online discussion groups as a source of inspiration and development.Continue reading “Peer Testimonial”