"Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be."

~ Ai Weiwei ~

At home - Deepwater NSW. [Talgumbuun]

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"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

~ Mark Twain ~

On the death of my 2 x grand father [Robert Flint] on the Flint side of my family.

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"Use your voice for kindness, your ears for compassion, your hands for charity, your mind for truth, and your heart for love."

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"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

~ Muhammad Ali ~

My uncle... he was a brave man.  He died in the ring.

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"Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire."

~ William Butler Yeats ~

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"Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is."

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~

Going live to Air on radio was a huge step.  First I had to believe I could do it.  I had a desire to do this and I was passionate about the music I loved.  I succeeded brilliantly at becoming a radio programmer for 8 years.  Recently I moved from the area where I participated with this at 2BBB.  I am looking forward to starting again where I am now.  Look out TENFM.

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"Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul."

~ Niccolo Machiavelli ~

This is the largest mat I have made. It was so much fun to make and it was a pleasure to be that inspired because of love and friendship.

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"It's possibly one of the worst governments we've ever seen in Australia's history on the environment"

Kelly O'Shanassy
Australian Conservation Foundation Chief Exectutive

Killarney Gap Road

In the states (NSW) north west the destruction to the environment has been largely hidden from the public with statements that border on lies. This is the state of the nation across the entire country.  Same story in every state and territory. 

The beautiful and precious Pilliga Forest near Narrabri NSW is being attacked and murdered before our eyes and species are dying.  None of this seems to matter to our Environment Minister Greg Hunt who continues to sing the sick swan songs of fossil fuel as he turns away from from the bright light of the sun.  

I am afraid this is the story of a man who took for granted the mother who bore him and sustained him (earth).

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"And when they've given you their all, Some stagger then fall, 'Cause you know that it's not easy, Banging your heart against some mad bugger's wall"

~ Pink Floyd ~

Rock wall in Gympie

Quote from "The Wall"Album. 

Today is the day that Brice is finally 50. So it gives me great pleasure to be the first and perhaps only one to wish him Happy Birthday and to tell him how blessed we are to have him in our life.

We can safely call him old man now.  I know only too well how much of a huge milestone this is for him.  Its not easy to come up with inventive ideas to be free of the power the past has over us in our daily lives if we let it.  Brice has excelled at carrying this out to a large degree.  He is a good person. He is trustworthy and thoughtful.  He knows his strengths and weaknesses.  He knows the risks attached to being him.  Happy Birthday Bricee .. thank you for being real in my life.  Thank you for giving me a chance to be real as well.  I wish you all the good things one can desire for the coming year ahead.

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To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on Holy Ground.

 Stephen R Covey  1932 -2012 ....

Dallas Green - City and Colour.

Dallas Green walks on holy ground where ever his feet touch the earth. He sings like an angel.  His voice is warmed perfection, his music is brilliant and so is he.   The feeling he puts into the lyrical content is clearly personal, this is what seriously touches my soul and gently tugs at my heart every time I hear his voice. 

I am definitely a fan. I simply adore  all of his music,   I love the 2011 album "Little Hell" best and perhaps that is my number one but its hard to separate any of it.  Its obvious why that album gets my gong.  The tracks on this album speak heavily into my fractured soul.  Fragile Bird, O Sister etc are all songs I relate deeply too... perhaps a little too deeply.

"The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing, it refuses nothing. It receives but does not keep."

~Chung Tzu ~

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"Who's afraid of the big Green monster? "Nothing brings Labor and Liberal together faster than attacking the Greens, unless it's a parliamentary pay rise."

~ Bob Brown ~

I had a laugh when I read this quote.  I am fully aware of what trauma bonding is and the two major parties are suffering from this.  It is where the party line goes out the window as the Coalition and the Labor Party combine to Green bash.  Its as though they are bonded over the trauma of a third party in the picture.  We have weeks of political twaddle to wade through with the election due in July 2016.

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"Architecture aims at Eternity; and therefore, is the only thing incapable of modes and fashions in its principles."

~ Sir Christopher Wren ~

Morpeth Church

Morpeth NSW near Maitland is a village full of amazing architecture from another century.  It has survived the test of time.  People have lovingly kept the town in its original form as much as possible.

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"The mathematical rules of the universe are visible to men in the form of beauty." --

~ John Michell ~

 

There is something beautiful about my dogs nose.  Its wet and shiny and perfect.  I tell her she has a beautiful nose, so she does know its pretty special.

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"The good, of course, is always beautiful, and the beautiful never lacks proportion."

~ Plato ~

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"The eye with which God sees me and the eye with which I see God are the one Eye, the one Seeing, One Love."

~ Meister Eckhart ~

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The salvation of the world consists in the salvation of the individual soul.

~ C.G.Jung ~

Salty River Mouth

Salvation is closely related to salt.  Alchemy consists of understanding the Salt, Sulfur and Mercury. The salt is required to separate the metals.  So I could say that the Salt of the World consists of the salt of the individual soul.

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“If you do not rest upon the good foundation of nature, you will labor with little honor and less profit."

~ Leonardo da Vinci ~

 Nature has it all going on.  We people have to realize that all of the answers remain in nature always.  Ancient Egyptians understood that everything in the universe is animated by life forces.  Therefore, each particle is in constant motion and has interactions due to the effect of these life forces.

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"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

~ Mark Twain ~

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“All cruelty springs from weakness.”

~ Seneca ~

SANTOS Cruelty to the Land.

Seneca's Morals: Of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency

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“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

~ C S Lewis ~

No one ever told me either!

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"How could I instill such hope but be left with none of my own?"

~ Dallas Green ~

Not much hope left for this relic of shared history.

I have experienced a great shock in the last week.  I lost another old friend in very tragic circumstances.  I am left in a state of Memento Mori, pondering death and his doors.  

I live with a continuing tragedy and loss of hope on the daily.  I live with the loss of my kids love because of my being human.  It's only now I realize, they were probably looking for any excuse to exit stage left away from me anyway.   

Its a strange feeling that leaves inside of me.  For me this clarifies that these elder two (2/3) children I birthed were souls itching to be born and at the time they were.   Jesse and Tilly didn't care who they came through because they chose me as their Mother.  This is their karma and not mine, I am already living my own.

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"Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

~ George Addair ~

Bingara Butterfly

I wonder if butterflies ever get scared of changing from a chrysalis to an insect with beautiful wings?

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"Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing."

~ Denis Waitley ~

Jesse and me when Jesse was brand new.

I spent years and years risking all to fall pregnant with this child.  This image above is mere hours after my first child Jesse was born.  Now nearly 28 years later I would risk it all again if I could.   I just don't know how to.   Happy Mothers Day to me.  I say this because I love myself in terms of everyone else and its only by everyone else that I know I am myself. 

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A hintergedanke is a thought way, way, way in the back of your mind. Something that you know deep down but can’t admit.

~ Alan Watts ~

A hintergedanke is a thought way, way, way in the back of your mind. Something that you know deep down but can’t admit.

— Alan Watts (@AlanWattsDaily) October 29, 2013

I read that one person referred to a Hintergedanke as a hidden agenda.  Well I suspect strongly that if it is something we can't admit, then it is in fact our own 'hidden agenda' as such.  I see it explains it perfectly.  I see that it actually sums it up.  Our duel nature is not all beer and skittles.

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"Talking about our problems is our greatest addiction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys."

~ Rita Schiano ~

What a joy it was to witness these beautiful, ancient sandstone cliffs out West near Narrabri.

Gomeroi Country.

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I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness.

~ John Muir ~

I am always happy to show anyone my first snow ... it was amazing!

This was Deepwater last winter July 2015.  It is predicted we will see a repeat of this in 2016.

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The snow is melting into music.

~ John Muir ~

Snow on my trees

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"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe."

~ John Muir ~

Wedgetail Eagle flying above me

John Muir is often misquoted with a quote he did not make:

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."

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Some mornings are only made of coffee and missing you.

~ Unknown ~

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There are all these moments you think you won’t survive. And then you survive!

~David Levithan ~

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