Originally drafted in June 2020 During 2020, a post on Facebook caught my attention. Seeing this set me thinking and pondering. I am a keen reader of cereal boxes, especially in 1972 when I lived in Canada and they were in French and English. Good for practising my French. The picture triggers a … Continue reading Encounters with Infinity
Category: Reflections
The Unimagined and Ongoing Consequences of the Things We Do
Unimagined sequelae and their ongoing-ness. Let me share my experience with John Taverners music, “The Protecting Veil”, a piece of music to which I responded with poetry, as I was moved more deeply with each listening. And then there was the occasion on which it literally stopped me in my tracks, as I realised that … Continue reading The Unimagined and Ongoing Consequences of the Things We Do
Reflections on Landcare:
Bill Pigott, from April 2018 ... ... a personal perspective from a Landcare Elder, looking back on 15 and more years as a Landcare volunteer. Landcare is a Relationship, a Process and a Community, where its immense diversity, its grass roots and voluntary nature, and its capacity-building and community-building outcomes, represent its greatest strengths. Landcare … Continue reading Reflections on Landcare:
Reflections during Covid-19 self-isolation: June 2020
I am fascinated by the range of thoughts and feelings experienced during this period of ‘stay-at-home’ isolation, a consequence of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Most frequently we have reflected on how fortunate we are to be isolated on a five acre rural property, with a forest in which to wander and still be at home, enjoying … Continue reading Reflections during Covid-19 self-isolation: June 2020
Vaughan Williams and Me
I love the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, and have done so for most of my life. His music seems to resonate with what lies deeply within, almost as if I hear it in my bone marrow. His music seems to appear on occasions where I would not have expected it, but find it has … Continue reading Vaughan Williams and Me
A “Three Buddha Farewell” Revisited.
January 2020: I am revisiting this piece from 2001 as a result of a whole new perspective given to these three Buddhas by the second of our three sons, who helped us choose items of significance or treasures to pack in our car, in readiness for evacuation should a bushfire threaten our property, a log … Continue reading A “Three Buddha Farewell” Revisited.
Jottings, Reflections and Ponderings 