CHOGM TO HELP FLOG THEM!

Every two years, Commonwealth leaders meet at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) to discuss global and Commonwealth issues, and to agree on collective policies and initiatives.

Exerpt from Julia Gilliard Opening speech for chogm.

"Friends, 2011 is a fitting moment for reflection and renewal because it marks the 80th anniversary of our association.
80 years since our predecessors endorsed the Statute of Westminster in 1931.
That year saw Gandhi imprisoned in the struggle for India's freedom.
Australia marvelled at the batting feats of a young cricketer called Bradman.
And a baby named Desmond Tutu was born in a remote town in the Transvaal.
Recently Archbishop Tutu celebrated his 80th birthday, and it is amazing to think of the changes that have occurred in just one lifetime"

CHOGM TO HELP FLOG THEM!

Every two years, Commonwealth leaders meet at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) to discuss global and Commonwealth issues, and to agree on collective policies and initiatives.

Exerpt from Julia Gilliard Opening speech for chogm.

"Friends, 2011 is a fitting moment for reflection and renewal because it marks the 80th anniversary of our association.
80 years since our predecessors endorsed the Statute of Westminster in 1931.
That year saw Gandhi imprisoned in the struggle for India's freedom.
Australia marvelled at the batting feats of a young cricketer called Bradman.
And a baby named Desmond Tutu was born in a remote town in the Transvaal.
Recently Archbishop Tutu celebrated his 80th birthday, and it is amazing to think of the changes that have occurred in just one lifetime"

They tried to denigrate 'Secret Woman's Business'

Stuff kept in secret is kept that way for a reason.  If you are trusted with a secret, always remember loose lips sink ships. 

Trouble always ensues when someone divulges a secret.  It is no longer a secret.
Secretive .. Secret woman's business..  

Looking out over the mouth of the Kalang and Bellinger Rivers towards the Heads.

Pain eases with apology over Ngarrindjeri secret women's business by: David Nason  July  2010 

As apologies go it lacked the grandeur of Kevin Rudd's 2008 sorry to the Stolen Generations and the awe of Paul Keating's Redfern speech of 1992.

But for the Ngarrindjeri women who had come to Goolwa at the mouth of the Murray to have their most sacred stories and songs vindicated, the words were powerful and felt deeply.
They gathered at Jekejere Park near the foot of the Hindmarsh Island bridge and heard South Australian Water Minister Paul Caica officially endorse the 2001 finding of Federal Court judge John von Doussa that their "secret women's business" was genuine.
Mr Caica said he hoped the acknowledgment could help heal the pain caused by the construction of the bridge and by a royal commission finding that the Ngarrindjeri beliefs were a hoax.

From Wikipedia:  Controversy plagued the work of the Royal Commission. The 'proponent women' refused to give evidence to the Commission; 'dissident' Ngarrindjeri women claimed threats and intimidation; Ngarrindjeri elder, Doug Milera reportedly withdrew his allegations that the 'secret women's business' had been fabricated; amateur historian, Betty Fisher, told the Commission she had first been told of the 'secret women's business' in 1960; and anthropologists from the South Australian Museum disputed the existence of the 'secret women's business'.

The Women.

The Ngarrindjeri people are the traditional Aboriginal Australian people of the lower Murray River, western Fleurieu Peninsula, and the Coorong of the southern-central area of the state of South Australia. The term ngarrindjeri means "belonging to men", and refers to a "tribal constellation".

 Image by Mezza - Urunga playground at the foreshore 2011

Secret womans business

Stuff kept in secret is kept that way for a reason.  If you are trusted with a secret, always remember loose lips sink ships.  Trouble always ensues when someone divulges a secret.  It is no longer a secret.
Secretive .. Secret woman's business..  This was a travesty.   This may just have happened because the spiritual law meant it was a secret. Doesn't make what happened right though... SECRET is something that is between you and God.

Looking out over the mouth of the Kalang and Bellinger Rivers towards the Heads.

Pain eases with apology over Ngarrindjeri secret women's business  by: David Nason  July  2010 

As apologies go it lacked the grandeur of Kevin Rudd's 2008 sorry to the Stolen Generations and the awe of Paul Keating's Redfern speech of 1992.

But for the Ngarrindjeri women who had come to Goolwa at the mouth of the Murray to have their most sacred stories and songs vindicated, the words were powerful and felt deeply.

They gathered at Jekejere Park near the foot of the Hindmarsh Island bridge and heard South Australian Water Minister Paul Caica officially endorse the 2001 finding of Federal Court judge John von Doussa that their "secret women's business" was genuine.
Mr Caica said he hoped the acknowledgment could help heal the pain caused by the construction of the bridge and by a royal commission finding that the Ngarrindjeri beliefs were a hoax.

From Wikipedia:  Controversy plagued the work of the Royal Commission. The 'proponent women' refused to give evidence to the Commission; 'dissident' Ngarrindjeri women claimed threats and intimidation; Ngarrindjeri elder, Doug Milera reportedly withdrew his allegations that the 'secret women's business' had been fabricated; amateur historian, Betty Fisher, told the Commission she had first been told of the 'secret women's business' in 1960; and anthropologists from the South Australian Museum disputed the existence of the 'secret women's business'.

 Image by Mezza - Urunga playground at the foreshore 2011

9 Months just like a baby...

Garlic.

Mary's Garlic nearly ready for harvesting.

I have just taken the flowers from my garlic.  If you snip the flowers then much more power is sent to the finally making of the whole garlics just under the ground.  In approximately 3 and a half week I will havest this and hang it up to dry.

Garlic is so beneficial to everything.  Both for taste and health benefits.  Always reminds me of my friend Dean making us all eat half cloves whole and wash down with water.  Funny as .. I am not totally sure that ingesting it this way was totally health beneficial.

I have seen people's hands and arms peel and I have seen fingernails go blue from over touch of the active ingredients in the garlics natural oils.  Proof to me that it is certainly a potent gift from the creator of the universe and it is here for us to use freely!  Plant each year just at the end of summer and wait nine months!

Image by Mezza -  One of our tiny patches of Garlic almost ready.

9 Months just like a baby...

Garlic.

Mary's Garlic nearly ready for harvesting.

I have just taken the flowers from my garlic.  If you snip the flowers then much more power is sent to the finally making of the whole garlics just under the ground.  In approximately 3 and a half week I will havest this and hang it up to dry.

Garlic is so beneficial to everything.  Both for taste and health benefits.  Always reminds me of my friend Dean making us all eat half cloves whole and wash down with water.  Funny as .. I am not totally sure that ingesting it this way was totally health beneficial.

I have seen people's hands and arms peel and I have seen fingernails go blue from over touch of the active ingredients in the garlics natural oils.  Proof to me that it is certainly a potent gift from the creator of the universe and it is here for us to use freely!  Plant each year just at the end of summer and wait nine months!

Image by Mezza -  One of our tiny patches of Garlic almost ready.

It's the seed power

There is more to existence than mere physical reality, and that a transcendent intelligence inheres and instructs the development of this universe, including the observed processes of evolution.

Jiva

Aboriginal is the oldest of the tribes on our planet, with a known continuity of cultural history dating back 50,000 years.  We speak of the "Dreamtime" of the distant past when the Gods walked on the Earth and created people, sacred places, animals and the ways of human society.  We believe a jiva or guruwari, a "seed power," is deposited in the Earth, "a symbolic footprint of the metaphysical beings whose actions created our world."  "We have been here since the time before time began," explains an Aboriginal elder. "We have come directly out of the Dreamtime of the great Creative Ancestors. We have lived and kept the Earth as it was on the First Day. All other peoples of the world came from us."

It's the seed power

There is more to existence than mere physical reality, and that a transcendent intelligence inheres and instructs the development of this universe, including the observed processes of evolution.

Jiva

Aboriginal is the oldest of the tribes on our planet, with a known continuity of cultural history dating back 50,000 years.  We speak of the "Dreamtime" of the distant past when the Gods walked on the Earth and created people, sacred places, animals and the ways of human society.  We believe a jiva or guruwari, a "seed power," is deposited in the Earth, "a symbolic footprint of the metaphysical beings whose actions created our world."  "We have been here since the time before time began," explains an Aboriginal elder. "We have come directly out of the Dreamtime of the great Creative Ancestors. We have lived and kept the Earth as it was on the First Day. All other peoples of the world came from us."

The stretched Commie is leaving..

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
-- Oprah Winfrey

The Commi Dashboard

The commodore is moving out!  She costs me too much.  I am sad as I love her.   But I have a new little car in which I have already undergone two substantial road trips in and it was much more economical.  I have to let go of my valentines present, the heart tail pipe that Bricee gave me a few years back now.  I hope who ever takes her looks after her.  I did.

The stretched Commie is leaving..

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.
-- Oprah Winfrey

The Commi Dashboard

The commodore is moving out!  She costs me too much.  I am sad as I love her.   But I have a new little car in which I have already undergone two substantial road trips in and it was much more economical.  I have to let go of my valentines present, the heart tail pipe that Bricee gave me a few years back now.  I hope who ever takes her looks after her.  I did.

A Rajneesh Dawn

I was running to get these shots as the light was spectacular.  I forgot my glasses in my haste and ruined a good number of shots in a perfect dawn.

A Rajneesh dawn in Urunga NSW

The tenth of the tenth.  That is the date and since 10's are so special that must be the reason for the massively awesome shots taken this morning

Image by Mezza - Dawn in Urunga 2011

A Rajneesh Dawn

I was running to get these shots as the light was spectacular.  I forgot my glasses in my haste and ruined a good number of shots in a perfect dawn.

A Rajneesh dawn in Urunga NSW

The tenth of the tenth.  That is the date and since 10's are so special that must be the reason for the massively awesome shots taken this morning

Image by Mezza - Dawn in Urunga 2011

CLEAN and WHITE: Eight

WHITE ..

The Long White Sands - Urunga

Urunga is a small town on in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, in Bellingen Shire. It is famous for its surf spots (Reefs, Beachies and mouth of rivers). At the 2006 census, Urunga had a population of 1,919. The town is south of Coffs Harbour and Sawtell and north of Nambucca Heads. The place name, Urunga, is derived from an Aboriginal word meaning 'long beach'.
There are two main streets, and both a bowling club and a golf club. A weekly 6-a-side soccer competition is held on Thursdays at the Oval.
Urunga is a fishing ground, with bream being the main sport fish. The Urunga boardwalk, leading out to the beach, was rebuilt in 1988 and extended in 1991. The full boardwalk was completed in 2007. In November 2010, a further section of boardwalk was completed. This extension finishes at the mouth of the river and has taken the length of the boardwalk to almost 1 kilometre. Hungry Head, 4 km to the south is the only patrolled beach in Urunga.
A railway station opened on the North Coast line in 1923 and continues to be served by country passenger trains.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urunga,_New_South_Wales

Image by Mezza - Long White sands of the beach here in Urunga.

CLEAN and WHITE: Eight

WHITE ..

The Long White Sands - Urunga

Urunga is a small town on in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, in Bellingen Shire. It is famous for its surf spots (Reefs, Beachies and mouth of rivers). At the 2006 census, Urunga had a population of 1,919. The town is south of Coffs Harbour and Sawtell and north of Nambucca Heads. The place name, Urunga, is derived from an Aboriginal word meaning 'long beach'.
There are two main streets, and both a bowling club and a golf club. A weekly 6-a-side soccer competition is held on Thursdays at the Oval.
Urunga is a fishing ground, with bream being the main sport fish. The Urunga boardwalk, leading out to the beach, was rebuilt in 1988 and extended in 1991. The full boardwalk was completed in 2007. In November 2010, a further section of boardwalk was completed. This extension finishes at the mouth of the river and has taken the length of the boardwalk to almost 1 kilometre. Hungry Head, 4 km to the south is the only patrolled beach in Urunga.
A railway station opened on the North Coast line in 1923 and continues to be served by country passenger trains.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urunga,_New_South_Wales

Image by Mezza - Long White sands of the beach here in Urunga.

CLEAN and WHITE: Seven

WHITE...

Kookaburra's use the wait and pounce method to get food.  Finding  a place  to sit and wait with a good view like in the picture above.  Swooping down, tough beak ready.  Large food items like large lizards and snakes are then bashed against the trunk of a tree  or bashed onto a rock to mash them a little and make the meat easier to consume. 

This is what a kookaburra sounds like (MP3 - 400KB) turn it up!

A kookaburra lives in the one place for most of its life. It also mates for life. Laughing kookaburras establish a social system in which only the dominant male and female in a family group will breed, usually between spring and mid summer.Nests are made in tree hollows or termite mounds in trees or on the ground, where the female will lay up to three eggs. During this time, the rest of the family helps out with the incubation, feeding, and protection of the young.

Image by Mezza - Kookaburra on the flagstaff!

CLEAN and WHITE: Seven

WHITE...

Kookaburra's use the wait and pounce method to get food.  Finding  a place  to sit and wait with a good view like in the picture above.  Swooping down, tough beak ready.  Large food items like large lizards and snakes are then bashed against the trunk of a tree  or bashed onto a rock to mash them a little and make the meat easier to consume. 

This is what a kookaburra sounds like (MP3 - 400KB) turn it up!

A kookaburra lives in the one place for most of its life. It also mates for life. Laughing kookaburras establish a social system in which only the dominant male and female in a family group will breed, usually between spring and mid summer.Nests are made in tree hollows or termite mounds in trees or on the ground, where the female will lay up to three eggs. During this time, the rest of the family helps out with the incubation, feeding, and protection of the young.

Image by Mezza - Kookaburra on the flagstaff!

CLEAN and WHITE: Six

White.. 
        Angels wear white .... in the Philly advertisement.

This white post is dedicated to Texsy.  Her spirit is now without spot or blemish and as snow white as this beautiful white strawberry flower.

The Strawberries in my garden all came from one tiny plant I brought home from Charlotte Rogers house three years ago.  I lovingly transplanted it into a pot when we moved house and there remains the core plant still in the pot and all of the strawberry plants have come from that first which is still in the pot.

Recently I made strawberry planters from the 2ltr Coca Cola bottle cut into halves and put a drainage hole in each of them and attached them to the fence high off the ground.  away from the ground ants.   This so far has been a huge success with the strawberry plants now cascading downwards from these pots with there bounty of fruit kept reasonably safe and ant free. 

I love to go in search of the strawberries that hide under the green foliage, we get enough for desert most days.  A wonderful source of Vitamin C and antioxidants.  The taste is awesome.  Nothing like those huge tasteless wonderful looking, but poor tasting berries in the supermarkets.  Our fruit are delicious.

Having a bountiful supply of strawberries is a massive convenience. The fruit is versatile, as it can be used fresh or cooked on pastry or in a jam or jelly. 

Either way, plant some strawberry plants today! Incorporate this fruit into your life and you too can enjoy these benefits.

CLEAN and WHITE: Six

White.. 
        Angels wear white .... in the Philly advertisement.

This white post is dedicated to Texsy.  Her spirit is now without spot or blemish and as snow white as this beautiful white strawberry flower.

The Strawberries in my garden all came from one tiny plant I brought home from Charlotte Rogers house three years ago.  I lovingly transplanted it into a pot when we moved house and there remains the core plant still in the pot and all of the strawberry plants have come from that first one still in the pot.

Recently I made strawberry planters from the 2ltr Coca Cola bottle cut into halves and put a drainage hole in each of them and attached them to the fence high off the ground.  away from the ground ants.   This so far has been a huge success with the strawberry plants now cascading downwards from these pots with there bounty of fruit safe. 

I love to in search of the strawberries that hide under the green foliage, we get enough for desert most days.  A wonderful source of Vitamin C and antioxidants.  The taste is awesome.  Nothing like those huge tasteless wonderful looking poor tasting berries in the supermarkets.  These fruit were beautiful.

Having a bountiful supply of strawberries is handy as the fruit is versatile to be used fresh or cooked on pastry or in a jam or jelly.  Either way, plant some strawberry plants today and you too can enjoy these benefits.

Death Is Nothing At All #5

To Mary... Love from Texsy,

Death Is Nothing At All

I have only slipped away to the next room.
I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
That, we still are.

Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the easy way
which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed.
at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect.
Without the trace of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.

It is the same that it ever was.

There is absolute unbroken continuity.

Why should I be out of mind

because I am out of sight?

I am but waiting for you.

For an interval.

Somewhere. Very near.

Just around the corner.

All is well.

Henry Scott Holland ~ 1847-1918

Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral ~ London. UK

 Images by Mezza - Mosaic heart and Bliss n Eso ticket

Death Is Nothing At All #5

To Mary... Love from Texsy,

Death Is Nothing At All

I have only slipped away to the next room.
I am I and you are you.
Whatever we were to each other,
That, we still are.

Call me by my old familiar name.
Speak to me in the easy way
which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed.
at the little jokes we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me. Pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word
that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect.
Without the trace of a shadow on it.

Life means all that it ever meant.

It is the same that it ever was.

There is absolute unbroken continuity.

Why should I be out of mind

because I am out of sight?

I am but waiting for you.

For an interval.

Somewhere. Very near.

Just around the corner.

All is well.

Henry Scott Holland ~ 1847-1918

Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral ~ London. UK

 Images by Mezza - Mosaic Mirror heart and Texsy's Bliss n Eso ticket