"My wife is rumbling like round stones in the surf. And I'll caution you not to mention the word 'sofa'. It is a word of anger and sorrow to Liza ( Read more... )

"They were beckoning mountains with a brown grass love ( Read more... )

Ingredients

6 pounds of chicken bones
2 unpeeled medium white onions, chopped into chunks
4 unpeeled carrots, chopped into chunks
2 stalks of celery, chopped into chunks
6 sprigs of fresh thyme
1 large bunch of fresh flat-leaf parsley
1 bay leaf
8 black peppercorns
1 teaspoon sea salt

InstructionsIn a stock pot combine the chicken, onions, ( Read more... )

Ingredients6 unpeeled carrots, cut into chunks ( Read more... )

I dream that a bushfire approaches the enclave where I live with my parents. The houses are low, and clad in redwood shingles. I can hear the roar of the fire in the distance. I promise my mother that I will fill the washing machine in her house with water, but I become distracted by other tasks, spraying the eves of my own house with a hose, ( Read more... )

The Fizzer was due at sundown, and for the Fizzer to be due meant the Fizzer would arrive; and we had all got cricks in our necks, with trying to go about as usual, and yet keep an expectant eye on the north track ( Read more... )

Yesterday I ran ten kilometers along golden beaches and through fragrant eucalyptus woods. A cool rain pelted down and frogs sang happily. I was moving fast and the boiled egg in my pocket provided sustinence. It was a good run - until I boarded the ferry in Manly ( Read more... )

"By following down a little valley and its tiny rill of water, an immense gulf is seen through the trees... Walking on a few yards one stands on the brink of a vast precipice."

Charles Darwin, January 1836

None of the places we know existed until our ancestors, in the form of people, plants and animals, travelled widely across the land. As they travelled they formed the world as we know it, creating trees, rocks, caves, boulders, cracks, waterholes. These features are the physical evidence that these events really did take place, they are the ( Read more... )

Tjukurpa teaches that in the beginning the world was flat and featureless. Tjukuritja, the ancestral beings, emerged from this void and traveled widely across the country, shaping the landscape as they went. Trees and mountains and living creatures were all created by Tjukuritja on these journeys, and some of their spirit remains behind in each ( Read more... )