Tag: music

July 2026

I loved this man’s music. https://theconversation.com/glen-hansard-a-tireless-warm-hearted-troubadour-whose-music-brought-people-together-288699?utm_medium=article_clipboard_share&utm_source=theconversation.com

I also found him through this film, which I adored.

I’m adding lots of his songs to my playlist.


Want to waste some time but also discover interesting things? – https://publicdomainreview.org/


I love this little video. We need to make our own spaces on the internet and visit others’ creative spaces. I’ve recently reconnected with reading this blog – https://dancingwithfrogs.wordpress.com/. I’ve gained so much inspiration, over the years, from her blog. I am not a big traveller, but I love her insights into the places she visits. I visited her once and we had a lovely afternoon. There is so much to admire about Frogdancer.

I think about when the internet first emerged in my awareness, back in the 80s. I was waiting for it and anticipating all the abundance of opportunities for connection, creativity and learning it would bring. It has delivered. There are side effects that I didn’t see coming. Rather than throw it out, how can we build the internet we want?


I’ve been thinking about the word embodiment. It is being used a lot. Sometimes words just get thrown around so much that I get confused about what they mean.

I thought it meant bringing an idea or thought into reality. The way I’ve been hearing it is that we are physically the idea or thought. It is used to mean being aware of our entire being, feelings, thoughts and physical sensations.


April 2026

I want to read more utopian stories. People use their imagination to share how the world could be better. Fearless mental experiments that pave the way for imagining a better future to point the arrow at, rather than all the grey ugliness that seems to create an overcast outlook.

https://mysticmedusa.com/dreams-and-symbolism/magical-moon-mapping

https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-how-to-have-brave-conversations-in-an-age-of-loud-moral-certainty-276858?utm_medium=article_clipboard_share&utm_source=theconversation.com

https://medium.com/the-chrone-chronicals/feminism-now-one-crones-opinion-90d936c022a9

Males Are the Secondary Sex by Gabrielle Blair

Don’t believe me? Let me walk you through it.Read on Substack

This brings me joy – https://www.instagram.com/p/DW9ol57EqSIIT8atJ9XbcxiYTsLFfQj3yv3jPM0/

I visited A Better Life for Foster Kids in Sale in the second week of the holidays so my mum could drop off the crocheted rugs and dolls she had made. I love their work, packing up little suitcases with things a child will need. Care delivered by women on a volunteer basis.

At the building the organisation works in, there was this massive mosaic hanging over the stairwell.

The plaque said it was designed and executed by the Sale Technical College, first-year arts students in 1963. It’s an historical artifact of the colonialism and patriarchy of our region. However, there was in a regional area an arts course in Sale able to do this over 60 years ago. Now, with our abundance and “improvements”, we have no formal arts education in Gippsland.

Time is all weird

It’s perhaps a Saturn thing. There are a lot of planets in Aquarius right now and many of them have just moved on from Capricorn, also ruled by Saturn. I feel like my sense of time is all jumbled at present. There are things that seem forever ago – that are not and things that are unexpectedly sudden, that have taken a long time in reality.

This song, from the 90s, popped into my head tonight and it took a while to find it but I’m glad I did. This CD was a favourite that I’d forgotten.