Also climate change
Cancer and bushfires have this in common – the earlier you can catch them the better the chance of a cure.
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ecology
Stay safe, my friends
Don’t give me a home among the gum trees when it is bushfire season.
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Cockatoo dreaming
To White Cockatoos, Black Cockatoos must seem the stuff of nightmares. To Black Cockatoos, White Cockatoos must seem the ghosts of ancestors.
Lighter than air
The magpies in my garden love a windy day – it takes them up up and back, turns their games into three dimensional chess, makes them sing with happiness when they land on the gate, a difficult landing, in the wind, performed perfectly. But I can’t fly and I hate wind. Still, I am happy
Gauntlet
I challenged received wisdom, but those who had received that wisdom did not accept my challenge, said that the wisdom was unchallengeable, and therefore the challenge was wrong. Never mind, soon I will be gone, and then you can say “what challenge?”
Dust to dust
A harsh westerly wind blows outside my window. Reminding me that, wherever you are in Australia the desert is never far away. The dust from the centre brought by winds from north, south east and west, permeates our garden, house, enters our lungs, becomes part of us in the way stardust from distant explosions becomes
Treading lightly
Summer is here, in the middle of Spring, with the first warning of bushfires, and the first moment of almost treading on a snake (a cute baby Black, but hey a snake’s a snake). In winter I stride across the land (though always avoiding ants, and beetles, and spiders). I walk differently in Summer. Slower,
Time, lord
If an imaginary being was going to step in and save the world before we wreck it he’s left it rather too late
Murder of the Nile
Denial was a river in Egypt that dried up as a result of climate change
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