All that is mortal and all that is perishable is but a symbol!

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

Koala

Koala is the symbol of great motherhood.   She stands as a symbol of how a mother should care for her children.

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Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

~ Heraclitus ~

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Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

~ Heraclitus ~

Flowers  are against the odds all the way.  The busting open of the seed and the first new shoot is the beginning of a beautiful and colourful journey.

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"Don't worry if you're making waves simply by being yourself. The moon does it all the time."

~ Scott Stabile ~

Full Moon rising over the Pacific Ocean off Urunga NSW

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And So my nights are forged in the dreaming

~ Mary-Ellen Peters ~

 

And So my nights are forged in the dreaming,

Moreover...

My days are filled with sunshine

...and in my eyes, its gleaming!

 Its good to know this day is mine

For me to freely choose the meaning.

Singular moments pass and fall
in conjunction with each other

..in gentle rhythmic time...

Beauty is the gently resting lover
This dot defines the perfect line
With wondrous light filled love
It's new and its fresh and its constant like no other.

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“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

~  Charles Dickens ~

Uncle Tom and his old mate yarnin up at Uluru

Uncle Tom and this other old chap [pictured] whom he met, got along like a house on fire.  Both men were making the journey to one of the most sacred places on Earth - That is most obviously "Uluru".  To get here had been the dreams of both of these gentlemen they both said they wished to go there before they died.  This was humorous in a sad way.

  They cracked jokes and encouraged each other in the heat.  Both men were in their late eighties and so it wasn't an easy task to get around such a large sprawling desert when your that age. 

Sadly Uncle Tom has passed now, and I wonder if this chap is still keeping him company yarnin up about the great trip they had to the centre of Australia?

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Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

~ Alan Watts ~

In other words sometimes its best to just walk away from a situation or a person. At times anything you do will only make it worse and this isn't ideal.  Let the waters calm and clear.  Situations cloud peoples minds, other peoples loose opinions can cloud peoples minds too.  There is also metabolic factors to take into consideration. 

Hormones . the body's lethal chemicals that turn everything on or off are another factor which can slaughter peoples common sense.  It can be highly likely that outbursts of madness can stem from people being pushed around by their very own self and their own metabolic system.  This never stays the same and is always in a constant transition.  I suppose that is why it is called a cycle.
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“This is the real secret of life, to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”

~ Alan Watts ~

Garlic work was hot work but we always made sure it was fun.

I often refer to this as something remedied by ones attitude.   If our attitude stinks, then everything will stink.  Attitude governs our state of mind.  If we have horrid thinking - horrid stuff happens.  If we are thinking in a good light then good stuff happens.  So what is the invisible connection?

'Heart Energy' is the connection.  The resonance emitted from our heart.   If this energy is high and not self serving,  then there is an immediate knowing that attitude is not a tiny thing, it is everything!

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By choosing to be our most authentic and loving self, we leave a trail of magic everywhere we go.

~ Emmanuel ~

A heart on the 101 Miller Street Signage (AGL Building Nth Sydney)

I am sure its not seen as magical or even great, but I like to leave a trail of yellow hearts behind me where I have been.  I do this as an emblem of love to symbolize the love the planet has for us and the love I have for the Mother (Earth, Gaia)

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One Day you will just be a memory for some people, do your best to be a good one.

~ Melchor Lim ~

I wonder what memories the kids have of me?  I often wonder about this fact.  I suppose they don't remember anything really good.  That would be too much to ask.  I don't understand how HE got off scot free from any examination by our children and he did all of what he did. 

This part of my life history will not cease to amaze me ever until I get an answer that is at least partly credible and true.

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"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter"

~ E E Cummings ~

I used to laugh a lot with these people....  Laughter is said to be the best medicine.  If a person cannot find anything to laugh about then the life has been drained out while they are still breathing.

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Be humble for you are made of earth, be noble for you are made of stars.

~ Serbian Proverb ~

Uluru NT

 Eventually we are consumed by the lust of Earth
and the Love that knows no Bounds
and return to her belly fully crowned….
as specks of star dust n dirt formerly renowned.   

extract from A Love that Knows No Bounds

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It is not an investment if it is destroying the planet.

~ Dr Vandana Shiva ~

Mines in South Australia blow my mind... I cried when I saw this.

I saw this and I knew we were governed by psychopaths in that exact moment in time,  it crystallized in my mind as I sat next to Uncle Tom.  I swore to Uncle that I would do what I could to stop this. 

So far this many years later, I have not done very well towards this goal.  I find it hard to believe that I have had personal dramas to negotiate even in protecting the planet.  It will never cease to amaze me how things happen. 

I know better than to question the motive of a lesson.  The motive is always to learn.  How did I carry myself through that dark time?  This was the lesson.  Not the situation.  That situation could happen to anyone but instead it happened in my life and established itself squarely to cause trouble. 

I am not so moved by this these days.  I have learned ways to help pluck out the painful hairs of reminder if they grow.  Simple.

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Honesty is a big ticket item seemingly just out of the reach of the frivolous!

~ Mary Peters ~

Way too many big ticket items here...

When you understand the laws of Karma and Dharma and how this is transferred inter-generationally it leaves one absolutely no choice but to be above reproach, if not the children pay for it karmically speaking. 

The parts about reincarnation were taken out of the translation of the Hebrew Bible into Latin by the Romans.  I found this to be one of the most distasteful single acts of war on people the church has ever committed.  They took away the truth of how it all works and left people groping in the dark.   This is in fact the Fall.  We fell from who we are to mindless slaves for the elite to govern and exploit.   Amen ..   (Which is a stolen Egyptian terminology from Arman Ra)

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Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go!

~ Unknown ~

The Never Never Creek NSW

I tend to push myself to finish up jobs instead of putting them off to another day.  I guess I am hardcore on myself really.  I find it uncomfortable any other way.  I love creating but I don't like to leave my creating mess laying around for endless days so that others have to climb over my  stuff.

I'm not going to jump out of planes or sail a boat around the planet alone but I can strive to achieve my own personal mountain tops and feel like I reached a point of self actualization.

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Normal is getting dressed in cloths that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the cloths and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

~ Ellen Goodman ~

The Pilot House Stables - now a house - Urunga

I guess in a backward sort of way I have been spared from the unenviable task of competing in such a sick world which is run on economics instead of it being about the welfare of the people who inhabit the planet. 

Was it good luck or was it bad luck to be born in the situation that was in full flight when I arrived on planet Earth?  A situation that changed all of our lives dramatically forever. 

I guess its all how you look at it.  At times it seems bad especially when you are spiritually barren when discussing parents with other folks, but when the truth is examined - it was good luck.   Why?   I am set aside and I don't have to deal.   My goal is to be entirely free of all of the teats we are given to suckle for a lifetime in return for our blind slavery to this deformed and corrupt economic system of government.

The few who are the richest in the world have a responsibility with that kind of power - the Karma transfers across generations - it takes seven generations to be free of this.

Dharma, karma and punarjanma: the triad laws of righteousness, causality and reincarnation form the central tenets of Sanatana Dharma. Of the three, karma has received much focus among Hindus over the millennia for it has been used (and abused) to justify the human condition. Based on the Hindu understanding of karma, all of ones experiences past, present or future are shaped by our own karmic matter.      READ MORE HERE

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Women are made to be loved, not understood.

~ Oscar Wilde ~

One of mine... Images of Women in Love.

Its a long long story and its worth understanding.  The connection women have to the universe and the different part we play as the creators.  Women do have different attributes to bring to life to their male counterparts.  Women are ethereal and Men are of the Earth.  Therein lies all of the differences.
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"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while climbing it"

~ Andy Rooney ~

The Mountains at Gleniffer.

This was the site from our back door at Gleniffer when my children were growing up.  A very beautiful place to live while living in a personal hell was what I always thought while living there.  I named my youngest daughter "Montana-Star" because of these mountains and because Venus was rising over them in the evening.  The Mountain star ...

Whether we or our politicians know it or not, nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

~ Wendell Berry ~

A FRACC GATE AT GLOUCESTER - a community with zero insight (generalization)

Although Wendell is generalizing here and I agree, she is communicating how the greater populace sees nature in economic terms.   It isn't how I see things - I understand the 7 principals of natural law and when one knows this one cannot simply un-know it.  The knowledge of these laws and how the universe works leaves me absolutely no option other than to protect and love the mother who sustains us all.

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“Once the public becomes aware of the fact that properly made hemp medicine can cure or control practically any medical condition, who is going to stand up against the use of hemp?”

~ Rick Simpson ~

 

Sunrise in Urunga

The story of this plant is a long and interesting one and one that needs to be read by all people who have reservations around the use of the plant for all of its various uses both medicinally, industrially, socially or for crafting and for food.  I would say this plant is by far the most versatile of any on the planet.  The laws formulated around the use are from the dark ages it seems.   Either that or we have sprung their game of keeping us all sick, because being sick is big business these days

 Read the History of the medicinal use of hemp

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HATE... It has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it hasn't solved one yet!

~Maya Angelou~

Image by Sheltercrow

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Nobody is ever "too busy!" If they are genuinely interested, they will make time regardless. So don't be fooled by the rhetoric often offered by so many.

~ Mary Peters ~

Overpass at Raleigh NSW

Caged up by others opinions and what others think of us as important is not really living! Its life on THEIR TERMS not our own terms.  

When we allow ourselves to see things for what they really are and not how we wished they were we start to become stronger.  The opinions of others mean very little to us in the end, because in the end we have only ourselves,   We come in alone and we go out alone and while we are here we must do the best we can to find truth and live from that perspective and understand that eternity is a helluva long time to spend messed up.

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Friendship is a single soul living in two bodies.

~ Aristotle ~

My friend Gail . .  we think alike at times.

I love friendship, it is such a special relationship to be considered a friend.  It comes with responsibilities.  Those responsibilities are largely forgone by most people as they run on madly through life not caring about anyone or anything but themselves.  They manage to fool people with empty words and its all done under the guise of caring for everything. 

This idea I have of being a good friend is rather humorous to watch.  (for me)  People are such sad creatures at times that it is pitiful.  They are at times, very empty and callous.   Did I say they also forget a lot of things, they say its their memory, but the real truth is they didn't care enough to remember.  This is not a true friend!  This is evident by the way they treat their friends.

A true friend is on the ball about their friendships.  Being a friend is a bigger responsibility than most people see it as.

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We do not remember days, we remember moments!

~ Cesare Pavese ~

Even though it was such a special day, my youngest daughter (Montana) turning 18, it is the moment that I got to place this ring on her finger.  This is what I chose to commemorate this occasion for her.  She is so much like me and she loves things that are keepsakes forever.  I loved every moment....

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In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm, in the real world all rests on perseverance.

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

 Enthusiasm and perseverance, to have more of life and less of death.  I grieve the loss of my family.

Today thirty two years ago on this day I married the children's father John on the beach at Newcastle in 1982.  It was such a hot day and the cake fell in the sand and we drank Dom Perignon from the bottle because we forgot the glasses.   It was pretty funny at the time.  I fell asleep sunburnt  and worn out and I guess that set the scene for the rest of our marriage.  I wasn't ever forgiven for this - like I meant to do it.  I am a shocker but I would never do such a thing on purpose.  It was a huge long long day that day.

We were together for 28 years and divorced in 2009.    We live and learn from our mistakes and the deepest cuts are are those that are dealt from the lessons we must learn.  

"The internal wounds are healed by a faith that the sun will shine again tomorrow."

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“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.”

~ Kahlil Gibran~

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Any fool can know, the point is to understand.

~ Albert Einstein ~

Wingham Skyline in the evening.

There is something to be said about deep understanding.  Its shows a level that one may have thought didn't exist.

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“Hold fast to dreams; for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird, that cannot fly.”

~ Langston Hughes ~

Two Curlews

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"Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine."

~ Ludwig Von Beethoven ~

Sam Conderman

 Sam took a flying leap, and its been beautiful ever since.

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I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law."

~ Aristotle ~

I really don't think I needed a law to tell me to take care of her.  She is the Mother who sustains us all.  The thought of harming her really never came into my personal vision of how anything would take place.

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