Don't let the heart that didn't love you, keep you from the one that will.

~ Author Unknown ~ 

..... reminds me of "Don't put off the important for the Urgent".    Sometimes this does feel like swallowing a ball of molten lead.   I still have a way to go.

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“You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.”

~Andrea Gibson ~

A heart sprayed on a space ship lid

" The Heavy Gravity of Me"

False smiles are precisely authentic
and....
Warm looks have patriarchal hooks
Books tell stories
Families tell lies
My school teaches SunyataThe empty belly life
Of Strength in loss
And Strength in strife
Life is change and change is life
Death is the absence, the empty, the void
The next step after life's spring board
Death is a fundamental necessary spontaneous Lord

Pali Sanskrit
Sunya = Empty
Ta = ness
Sunyata = Emptiness (said Shoonya tah)
Śūnyatā is a key term in Mahāyāna Buddhism, and also influenced some schools of Hindu philosophy

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"At this stage I can offer nothing more than my word"

~ Edward Snowden ~

I

 At every stage this is all I have ever been able to offer (my word).  I have stood up for myself since I was Thirteen and although others have amassed great wealth in materialistic form over their lifetime since those days, I still only have my word.  This complicates the world when others around me don't keep theirs, I don't know how to be.

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The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

~ Voltaire ~

Nimbin Sign

This sign had lots to say, it covered just about everything.

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“Genius is pain.”

~ John Lennon ~

Sheer Genius.....

It was a stroke of genius to go and stand with signs about the state of the mining in this country as often as possible on the Pacific Highway on the bridge at Urunga NSW.   It sparked things to action and it sparked the Great Highway Protest.  It surely must be said that this is fact because I had said many times,  "Just pick up your signs and go to the nearest highway and stand where you are because this problem is Australia wide".    I said this because for a lot of us it is all we can do.  We need to speak out where we are to the people we see on the daily.

What has come of standing on the side of the road with signs makes me feel warm that others noticed and thought it was a great idea (genius).

Alas genius is pain.  It isn't easy to stand for hours with a sign high above your head, your arms ache.  They ache more the next day.    The genius of this brilliance  was a great deal of pain when a passing car threw a bottle at my exposed head.  Yes John Lennon, genius is indeed pain, I agree.

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"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do!"

~ Voltaire ~

We remembered the Frontier Wars ... There are many who find this all too hard to deal with.  I have no issue in seeing the truth of what happened.  The British came here and killed the people of this land in what could not be termed anything but WAR!  The people took up their spears and woomeras and their waddies and set about to protect the only way they knew how when they witnessed the cold blooded murders of their clan groups.  The east coast has been at war since those days, people are still fighting against genocide, today in 2016.

For the Frontier Wars of Australia

Anzac Day Deepwater NSW.   We laid a specific wreath in Aboriginal flag colours for all those who died in what has become known as "Australia's Frontier Wars".

When the British invaded this great land, it was indeed a war.   It was the filthiest kind of war.  War with no rules.  Murder and rape were ordered by the crown. Genocide is what this country Australia was built on.  Many say the "Sheep's Back" but it was the Black mans back it was built upon. 
With out making friendships with the original people - the British would have perished. For the life of me I cannot understand how people see it any different.

This war still rages today.  Those incarcerated feel it on the daily.  Aboriginal people represent the highest group of people incarcerated. 

My father served in Korea, he was on the ship "HMAS Arunta", named after the Arrente indigenous people from the Northern Territory. Two ships have been commissioned with this same name.  My father was on the first of these ships.  

The Arrernte people marched with people from that ship or people representing them in the march around 11am in Sydney. The parade was a live telecast.

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"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage."

~ William Shakespeare ~

Guess you could call it a self portrait, it is me.

From the Bard.  It's part of Macbeth's Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow soliloquy, spoken after he is informed of his wife's suicide.

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"O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school."

~ Shakespeare ~

This passage is spoken by Helena about Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream.

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There is a dark side to everything. ~ PRINCE ~

Sadly the news broke today that our beloved PRINCE... Prince Rogers Nelson  (June 7, 1958 – April 21, 2016) passed away.  He was sick with the flu.  The music industry's most illustrious artists are all commenting this morning, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Obama has tweeted also.

Prince was a Gemini, a trend setter, a dilettante, a beautiful giving soul ... we have lost so many of the precious musicians already in this year of 2016.  A friend said it has not been a good year for musicians, I tend to agree. 

I never get past the lyric in the song "When Doves Cry" about the butterflies being tied up with out giving a whimper.  It just came on the radio and I turned it up and shed tears.

Sadly missed from this mortal world.  Man, it must be a jam session that rivals all jam sessions where all these guys have gone too.   I just hope my Texsy is enjoying all the musicians who are keeping her company in paradise.

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Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

~ Michael Faraday ~

Flower Spirits .. dancing

So many beautiful flowers in the world. Diverse in colour and appearance and some with scent and some without,  every flower is special.
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“Minds are like parachutes, they work best when open.”

~ James Dewar ~

Elesbaan Castro - Image Parachute

The mind is humanity's connection to the infinite through the natural gift of imagination.

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Adversity tempers the steel of the human soul making it strong in emergencies!

Where the rubber meets the road.

Our initiation takes place over these three parts, the body, the heart and the mind. Purification of thought, of pride and of worldly values.

I have found there is great value in the simple life detached from things worldly.  I am not fussed by the standards put forth where lies are replacing truth.  I simply refuse to play.  Sometimes this is more than just a walk in the park. 

One example of this is my attitude to water.  When it rains harvest the rain water into buckets.  I get soaked to the skin doing this so I am saving for a tank. On the daily, I collect as much grey water from the house  as I can humanly manage and I carry those buckets to the garden.  It is heavy and its awkward, yes it is adversity on a tiny scale.  The lesson here is that 'Water' is precious and it should not be wasted.  We pay the Shire Council for water so there is a double barrell reason to use it wisely and not just let it flow down the drain to the land of forgetfulness.

Sit quietly somewhere when the day is done and examine in great retrospect on the day and its events.  Both the joyful and the adverse.  Do this for the year and at the time of  death, examine the life and what it has  unselfishly learned on the souls journey this time around.

Scripture discusses being a "Good Steward".  It quotes,"Be a good steward over the little things and greater things will be added to you".  I feel confident those words are the similar words of someone who may have passed on knowledge and wisdom - perhaps at one of the ancient schools of learning, Pythagoras, Aristotle, Hypatia, Plato.  Any one of these would have urged the same thing for it is working with nature not subduing nature where our true power lies.

There is always more to learn.... listen to :  The Solar Christmas by Manly Palmer Hall

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Adversity does not build character, it reveals it.

~ James Lane Allen  ~

The Gas issue has high lighted the ones who care.

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"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results."

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/hypatia.html

~ James Lane Allen ~

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Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/hypatia.html

Earth is Red n Sky is blue and on World Heritage Day we love you!

WORLD HERITAGE DAY .....In reality it should be 'World Heritage Day' EVERYDAY .... Word! It's a sham because it shouldn't be just an allotted day of the year to care.  It's like it emulates a Roman religious holiday for the so called saints.

Our Home :

"Earth is red N sky is blue ... and on world heritage day, we LovE 'you'."

"Caring for earth is caring for yourself as both are an extension of each other equal in importance for balance and life".

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These days the bringing of such things down to days, a day for this and a day for that is akin to the fake roman religious holidays dedicated to this and that emulating even more ancient festivals which were celebrating our divinity and connection of who we are, and where we are, and why, and then where we are going.

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As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.

~ James Allen  ~

Sunflowers at Ewingar NSW

If you can survive on the least amount your society pegs then you can safely say you are well prepared for situations where scarcity is agenda of an entire society. 

Many say a situation like this is imminent and that when the proverbial does hit the fan, those who walk among us who are not used to going without will perish very quickly.  There are a lot of survivors out there on the planet who have been prepared for this since birth.  Stay safe.

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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

~ James Russell Lowell ~

Only the blind, heartless and the greedy are saying its alright. Those of us with foresight know above doubt that the water cannot be tampered with.

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"Sweetgrass is the hair of our Mother; separately each strand is not as strong as the strands are when they are braided together."

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Read more at: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/hypatia.html

~ Mary Ritchie ~

My sweet grass baskets

When I make baskets I feel like I am in connection with the cycles of the mother because weaving is like life to me and weaving is something I absolutely love to do.

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Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

~ Hypatia ~

I walk and I think and I walk some more and think some more.  I walk early in the morning when its just light.  Its my favorite time of day to think.

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"One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning."

~ James Russell Lowell ~

Thorny Rose bushes

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“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”

~ Carl Gustav Jung ~

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“Anarchy is a state of society where the only government is reason.”

~ Michael Schwab  ~

GASFIELD NOT PERMITTED BY ORDER OF THE PEOPLE

 

Saving the Pilliga means saving the Great Artesian Basin from being hopelessly contaminated.  It is heinous the government allow this to continue.  I think the Panama Papers reveal they don't care and they are only there for the money.

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“What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.”

~ Alexander Pope  ~

Catching Pilliga Dreams

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“When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree, until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow.”

~ G C Jung ~

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“I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.”

~ Vincent Van Gogh ~

The Night Sky above my home.

When I wake up very early and its still dark, the first place I look is at the stars.  I have a habit of making a coffee and rolling a cigarette and just sitting and watching the sky.  Lately I have seen falling stars.  Approaching meteor shower at the end of this month of April.

While I sit in the dark I ponder all the things I would like to do.  If I am making a basket, I ponder it and future baskets.  Lately, its been dream catchers and woven fences that I dream about.  So I am now weaving fences.
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“I realise there's something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they're experts at letting things go.”

~ Jeffrey McDaniel ~

Lost its leaves and it snowed..

 I could probably learn a lot from the trees in winter.  I could begin in Autumn and let go gently.  Letting go gently is a lot less damaging to ones soul.

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There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

~ Aldous Huxley ~

PETERS .. what a great corner improved.

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Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistance!

~ Ovid ~

Rocky River, Tabulam NSW

Mimic nature ... nature knows all the ways and the means.

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

~ Charles Edison ~

One of my creations

I love to make things.  It takes a lot of perseverance to master some things.  I have that sort of tenacity to keep going when its not looking so great.  Doing this creates a learning path.  Once you find a better way, which you invariably do each time we repeat a task, eventually we master it.
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Find what you love, and let it kill you!

~ Charles Bukowski  ~

Glenugie Earth protector.

A lot of people realize they love our planet Earth.  It is the big mother that sustains us all. Without this planet we call home there would be no people. 

People across the planet are amassing.  They are ready to let this kill them in every way.  They are past caring about the fines, the court cases, the endless drama of security guards protecting the lying corporations who are responsible for KILLING OUR WATER.. 

We should all be prepared to die for the health of the world when the choices are money or health.

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