Winter Solstice Southern Hemisphere Style.

A Deepwater Winter Fire

Winter Solstice in Oz is usually celebrated in the middle of the year, in our winter in June.

Yule in the Southern Hemisphere

Lore:

The Lady labours through the longest night of the year, giving birth to the Lord at dawn and beginning her recovery. Lights and candles are left burning to guide the Lord from the Goddess' womb and to symbolise the return of the Sun, bringing light to the Earth. The long, cold nights are shortening and the days are getting longer and warmer.

Keywords:

Rebirth, reincarnation, depth of darkness, turning point, remembering light in darkness, festivity, generosity, merriment, warmth, mother & baby, wonderment, joy, mystery.

Botanicals:

Holly (masculine), ivy (feminine), mistletoe (fertility), cinnamon, pine cones, cloves, nutmeg.

Colours:

Red (the Goddess' menstrual blood), white (the God's semen), green (plant kingdom), gold (the Sun).

The second balefire holiday, with the fire usually taking the form of a Yule log - from a special species of tree, or part of the Maypole from Beltane. Yule logs are burned from dusk on the Winter Solstice till dawn on the following day to symbolise the return of the Lord and the Sun. The log should traditionally be from a hardwood tree and in Australia mallee roots, Victorian ash, Tasmanian oak and Eucalyptus (to name a few) are ideal for this purpose. The Yule log is burned down until only a small piece remains, which is saved and kept to be used as a lighter for the following year's Yule fire - in doing this, the Yule fire is symbolically reborn each year as well.

This is a turning point, a point of change, where the tides of the year turn. At this time of the year, no matter how cold it may be, there is a glimmer of spring in the distance. The shortest day of the year has come and the next festival on the calendar is Imbolc, which marks the beginning of Spring.

At Yule, homes are decorated with evergreen, non-deciduous trees, and gifts are given to all family members and all who pass the threshold to symbolise the gift the Lady has bestowed upon the Earth.

A good time to do workings for peace, harmony, love, and increased happiness.

Altar decoration:

A small white candle inside a cauldron on the altar (symbolises the return of light from within the Goddess' womb), pine cones, symbols of the Sun, wreaths, nativity scene (representing the Mother, Father and infant Sun God), red/green/white candles, evergreens, acorns, nuts, apples, cinnamon sticks, reindeer.

A note on Yule and Christmas:

You'll note that the Wiccan Yule lore/celebrations and the Christian Christmas lore/celebrations are quite similar. The main reason they are so similar is that Christmas is based on the pre-Christian pagan festival of Yule, held on the Winter Solstice long before the advent of Christianity.  Now, I'm not saying that Mary and Joseph didn't turn up at the inn 2000-odd years ago, only that the Yule festival itself predates Christianity by thousands of years. Many of the Christmas traditions we observe today (the evergreen Christmas tree, gift-giving, celebrating the birth of the infant Lord, etc.) are remnants of the ancient pagan Winter Solstice celebrations: these practices were 'absorbed' by the Church to make the Christian Christmas more palatable to the pagans they were converting.
Information from a now dead link. (www.shadowsofoz.net/)

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National Wattle Day ... first of September in Australia

A wattle tree near Bluff Rock  New England Highway

  
Wattle Day is a national day of celebration in Australia on the first day of September, that is also the first day of spring in the southern hemisphere. This is a time when many Acacia species (commonly called wattles in Australia), are in flower and people wear a sprig of the flowers and leaves to celebrate the day. 
In 1913, the national Wattle Day League was established to organise the celebration of Wattle Day.

Acacia pycnantha golden wattle

On 19 August 1988, the golden wattle (Acacia pycnantha) was officially proclaimed as Australia's national floral emblem by the then Governor-General, the Rt Hon Sir Ninian Stephen AK GCMG GCVO KBE.

Four years later, 23 June 1992, Bill Hayden, the then the Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, declared that "1 September in each year shall be observed as 'National Wattle Day' throughout Australia and in the external Territories of Australia".
2010 was the centenary of the celebration of Wattle Day on 1 September 1910 in NSW, Victoria and South Australia.


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Happy Birthday to Montana-Star... we love You!

We always like to make a meme that details where Montana is at in life on her birthday..

This birthday stuff is big news ... to me! I'm her Mumma, that's why!   Yes Montana is having another birthday.   From all of us here, we wish her all the very best for today and the year to come.  I hope for her many more driving lessons and as much happiness she can possibly enjoy peacefully.

Love and hugs from Mumma and Bricee and all of our animals send their love to... Phoenix and Sooty and the new addition birds down the back,  Val-[halla], Gem-[ini] and Attila the Cock.

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It was once known as the "Feast of St Valentinus"

A rose from Bricee

Now, its been snapped up by commercialism and by and large today it is seen by the masses as a day of love or a day that represents love or a weirdo commercial  version of love.

In 1969 the revision of the Roman Catholic Calendar of Saints, the feast day of Saint Valentine on February 14 was removed from the General Roman Calendar and relegated to particular (local or even national) calendars for the following reason: "Though the memorial of Saint Valentine is ancient, it is left to particular calendars, since, apart from his name, nothing is known of Saint Valentine except that he was buried on the Via Flaminia on February 14.

So today is that feast of ' St Valentines Day'.  I didn't realize this at first.   I was given a rose last night at 2.30am and no one said a single thing about Valentines Day. 

I noticed the date this morning, 14th February - Argh - now I understand why Brice handed me the beautiful dark pink Rose, another classic symbol of love. 

I love you Bricee Brennan you are my Valentine every day. 

The Feast of  St Valentines Day:

In the (so named) Dictionary of Christianity, it is written that Saint Valentine was "a priest of Rome who was imprisoned for succoring persecuted Christians."

Contemporary records of Saint Valentine were most probably destroyed during this Diocletianic Persecution in the early 4th century. 

In the 5th or 6th century, a work called 'Passio Marii et Marthae' published a story of martyrdom for Saint Valentine of Rome. The same events are also found in Bede's Martyrology, which was compiled in the 8th century.  

It states that Saint Valentine was persecuted as a Christian and interrogated by Roman Emperor Claudius II in person.

Claudius was impressed by Valentine and had a discussion with him, attempting to get him to convert to Roman paganism in order to save his life.  Valentine refused and tried to convert Claudius to Christianity instead.

 Because of this, he was executed...   Nothing has seemingly changed.  Read more here  Wikipedia

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The Buninj Boothrum - Echidna Dreaming Nimbin

 So I finally made it to Nimbin

Funnily enough I have been kept at a distance for a reason.  I have no former memories of how Nimbin was before the tragedy of last years fire in the main street.

Buninj

I think it is fitting my first visit is because of the sacred Buninj.  Its clear these steps are ordered by spirit because I am with Sisters from another life and this one too.   We live in Yurrun.ga [Urunga] NSW on Gumbaynggirr Land

Uncle Lew's Poster of Events

A FULL WEEKEND OF SHARING UNITY AND CULTURE
NIMBIN SHOWGROUNDS
THIS SAT & SUN JAN 17/18TH
Saturday 17th: 9am - 12 midnight
Sunday 18th: 9am - 9pm
ENTRY - $25/day or $40/weekend pass (children under 14yrs free) 

PROGRAMME for Saturday and Sunday

The programme is extensive with plenty for every one to participate in.

DidJital performing YULADARLA

To come all the way to Nimbin to see DidJital perform was like the icing on the cake. Shane and the guys are awesome. Camping is always fun.  We have these nifty fold up tents that are funny as to deal with .. supposed to be easy.  I think we all need help with easy.

Uncle Robert and Uncle Micky and Valintin Doing Ceremony on the Sacred Buninj

It was lovely to be there when this first came into being and now a lot more know the true history of the South Lismore Plateau and the Dreaming story of the sacred Buninj and the true history not the fabricated history.



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NAIDOC DAY 2014

Celebrating NAIDOC week at the beach around the fire last year (2013)

 This year NAIDOC Day is different, the heart and soul of the people has been ripped out by the roots by one of the brothers who many describe his actions as weak and say he simply sold out.  Sell outs are known as those that go with the white man government ways and take the white mans money and swallow the white man lies.   There was a protest at Redfern on Monday at the beginning of the week about this to appose the bulldozers who want to flatten what is left of Redfern.

Redfern Flag Raising ceremony

A sovereign reality is one that will arise from the search for knowledge and it is one which comes from the highest spiritual reality.   People on earth are caught up in a sense of getting all they can and they are living in a state of absolute confusion because we are meant to be living in a state of eternal giving.  This is what negative female creative energy does - it creates.  Creation should not move into domination though.  This leaves a nation of peoples confused for a time. 

Nimbin NAIDOC DAY

Now the way is clear and those that would do evil against their own people have been exposed and now there is a much better understanding of what true sovereignty is. 

 PEMULWUY - watch episode One Here

We live in a universe that is governed by immutable natural law and we simply need to respect this and live and love out of our divine purpose.

 READ ABOUT NAIDOC ON THE COFFS COAST HERE

Live according to the life within us and all others are the same, other people are just like me and therefore this is the reason peoples say Namaste to each other.  They do this even if the person is rather a rogue in reality, because behind the rogue is God.

If God was not real we would all be dead as stiff hard door nails.  Out of respect comes love and out of love comes obedience.  Respect for the Ancestors and all of the ancestral knowledge of the correct ways to deal with the land and live in harmony.

Winner AFP NAIDOC Day Colouring In competition

Triple J's Like a Version has featured BRIGGS and GURRUMUL on Friday -  In a very special NAIDOC Week edition of Like A Version GURRUMUL will be joining Shepparton MC BRIGGS to perform an original and a cover.   They did the CHILDREN CAME BACK!

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Happy 18th Birthday Montana-Star Christina Baldwin

Today is her 18th Birthday and that is quite a milestone in any of our lives and I remember when I turned 18 and it seems like yesterday really. 

2014 Birthday Meme for Montana-Star's 18th Birthday

Montana has organised a party at her house and all of her friends are coming as well as her sister Matilda who lives in Cessnock South of here.

I am having a special commemorative Happy 18th Birthday Montana Radio Show later on today and that will be wonderful as I use those two hours to dedicate the entire show to her and all of her favorite artists and songs with Stars in the name or something that reminds me of Montana.

So it is official I am the mother of all adult children now.  Montana is my youngest child and now she is an adult too.  She got her "L" Plates last week which is great because now perhaps I can teach her to drive a bit.

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International Women's Day ( IWD) 2014

International Working Women's Day, is marked on March 8 every year. In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women's economic, political, and social achievements.

Started as a Socialist political event, the holiday blended in the culture of many countries, primarily in Europe, including Russia.The UN theme for International Women's Day 2014 is "Equality for Women is Progress for All".

“I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone”  ~ Katherine Hepburn ~

 

The Google Doodle on the eve of IWD 2014 (7 March 2014) featured an International Women's day doodle video, showing images and videos of women around the world, with music by Zap Mama.

Beyoncé Knowles performing "Listen" during "The Beyoncé Experience" in Munich, Germany. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

American singer Beyoncé Knowles also posted an International Women's Day video to her YouTube account. Throughout the song, her song ***Flawless plays, which includes a portion of the "we should all be feminists" speech given by author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.  Knowles is a modern-day feminist.   Wikipedia

Bellingen 2bbb Radio Celebrated International Woman's Day with female presenters hosting a day of woman in music and still more woman being interviewed for doing wonderful things simply being woman.

I shared a show and we interviewed a lady who rode a motor'sbike around the world.  She was an inspiration given she was 57 years old and only began riding seven years ago.

 

Photo of us at 2bbb by Bobbi Marchini

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Happy Birthday 2bbb Community Radio Bellingen.

Bellingen's Own Triple B FM Local Community Radio. Broadcasting LIVE across the shire on 93.3 and 107.3. Also available online at www.2bbb.net.au.

Mission

We have a commitment to:

Actively encourage participation and experimentation in all aspects of community radio operation by any and all community members, including individuals in such special groups as disabled, aged, housebound, youth, unemployed and sight disabled.

Serve as a channel for the communication and dissemination of information relevant to both the community's and the individual's needs and desires.

Provide comprehensive training in the various facets of broadcasting activities, and the facilities and opportunities to develop and utilise those skills for the benefit of the community.

Produce local news programs and programs of comment on local issues and events which allow participation by representatives of all points of view. Whilst the station's focus is local, its aim is to maintain a clear perspective, and position its coverage objectively and honestly, balanced against the wider backdrop of world events.

Identify and attempt to meet community needs and interests that are not adequately covered by existing media.vi) Register the community's cultural, recreational, education, social, artistic resources, and provide outlets for creative talent.

Promote and present a diversity of quality musical and cultural entertainment.

Provide for a variety in programming so that everyone finds something of interest at some time.

Promote community harmony.

Provide prompt, reliable emergency communications.

Description

2 Triple B FM is a fantastic little Community Radio station based in the wonderfully diverse and beautiful Bellinger Valley. Our team of dedicated volunteers have been broadcasting a wide range of engaging programmes on 93.3 and 107.3 fm for over 27 years. The Voice of the Valley....the Plateau, and the Seaboard!

Memorial Hall Bellingen NSW

Bellingen Memorial Hall in Hyde Street Bellingen, what a wonderful venue for a party for a radio station.  I am sure this would have been perfect

 

I wanted to go but found I couldn't go alone as usual.  I miss out on so much being disabled this way.  It is my own doing and I will undo this the best I can.  Perhaps it is the memories that bring me undone and this is why I cannot face things alone. 

Montana and myself on air at 2bbb

I would have loved to have attended this with Montana and anyone that Montana cared to bring along to help celebrate this most awesome occasion.  I lifted a drink at home instead and thought about everyone having fun up at the Mem Hall.  I was there in spirit because my thoughts were there.

Dj Mezza LoL!

I love Radio,  I love Music,  I love talking, I love talking about subjects, I am not afraid to speak, I am happy when I do my radio show.

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Happy Birthday Jesse.. Congratulations on your Graduation Montana

All on the same day... It certainly was a big day for all of us.  I was emotional but I tried to hide it the best I could but I know that is just a hopeless task as I shed tears so freely because of those high emotions and the fact that I am in touch with my heart energy and sometimes it fairly zings inside of me and tears just well in response to this.

Montana sitting behind her principal Mr Goudella.

Montana looking really shocked getting her congratulations from Bob Stockton (retired Principal)

 Montana's Principal changed this year.  Mr Stockton retired.  He had been principal for so many years that I have lost count, however  and Mr Bob Stockton was on hand to do awards although he is retired.

This was on Jesses Crib in the Wesley Hospital Brisbane when he was born in 1988

I didn't contact Jesse for his birthday, more to the exact truth I could't as I have no contact phone number or address to even send him a birthday card.  He not only de-friended me on facebook but he also blocked me.

So it was not a good thing to happen right before his birthday.  But that was the result of my emotive outburst to that foolish Rodgers fellah!

Still and all I wish Jesse all the best for his birthday and for the coming year of his life as he is now 25 years old and no longer a young lad.  He is now a man.  I have never seen him as a man, 

I wonder when he is going to start acting like a man and give some respect and some credit to his mother who is not any of the things he has been led down the garden path to believe. 

How ever there is no mistakes and so this is a learning lesson for all of us and that includes him as well.  I must continue to sit with this and let the universe take its course.

Jesse on his first day at school. 
Jesse's Birthday that year was fun! It was a great party!  he turned Five.

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Happy Birthday to Shelby

I was excited all week to see if my present I made for Shelby fitted her.  I made a special beenie in Ford colors the best I could and so we excitedly got ready to go up to Bellingen for her party at Bellingen.

Shelby is my daughters sister in law. This is curious because she is a tiny one year old tomorrow. Matilda lives with Shelby's biggest brother Brendan. 

It was a beautiful party with a huge Peppa Pig Cake that was one meter long. There was stacks of yummy things for everyone. Gail had not held back on any expense and it was wonderful with all of the helium filled balloons floating around the entire house.  A jumping castle that was in the back yard for the babies to play inside together with lots of balls and a slide. Peppa  Pig arrived in a suit, this was a huge hit with her as she absolutely thought it was wonderful.  I am sure she thought she was real.

I saw her playing with everything and it was so much fun to be apart of such a special occasion as her first birthday, it was sad that Tilly and Brendan were not there to help Gail and Jason celebrate this and to have as much fun as we all did.  Her party was today but her birthday Day is tomorrow the 12th August.

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Three days to go and Matilda will be 22 years old.

This is an image of her when she was four years old.  So absolutely adorable.  How could anyone not love her.  She had the most defiant little temper though.

Matilda Sunshine Katherine Baldwin

This is my way of celebrating her birthday,  I have no physical contact with Matilda, she denies my existence. 

This hurts but it is alright with me if this is what she really feels she has to do in her life.  In the mean time, I will prepare for her birthday.

I will make a fabulous cake this year to celebrate it.  For  2013 it will have to be the Amy Johnson Cake with extra trimmings.  

We will have a special dinner and place a setting for Matilda.   We will sing her happy birthday's to the Universe with candles.

The universe knows how much I care.   This all may be a little out there, but it helps me.  The world cannot stop me from being the mother I was destined to be, no matter what.  

I toughen up a little more each day in order to let it slide off of me like water on a greasy ducks back in order for me to live my life. 

I don't understand everything, I probably will never really understand this.  I am not sure I have to

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Thoughts

"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us."
Bastille Day Quotes by Voltaire, French philosopher, 1694-1778

Reflections of Dawn not thinking

Ever heard someone say, "Thoughts are creative"?  That is a fairly open sort of statement and it doesn't enlighten you to the true capacity that thought has.  There is much that needs to be understood about thoughts and the power that these produce causing the attraction or repulsion syndrome.

Because we are basically electric individuals we are resonating a vibration.  This vibration changes with each thought we produce in our minds.  If someone thinks a lot then they are resonating a lot.  If someone thinks very little and does not delve they are resonating a lesser frequency.  The emotion is the vehicle that causes this resonance.  The positive emotions as well as the negative emotions both cause differing resonances. Because all things are ruled by duality, there is a positive charge and a negative charge and these are our thoughts and they charge our bodies accordingly.  The electricity produced is what causes the actual attraction.  Electricians should love this understanding. 
  
Therefore if something very bad happens, this is perhaps why things come one after another as issues to deal with.  People say it never rains but it pours.  This is another way of saying when something bad happens then lots of bad things happen. The moment we believe this statement we have shot ourselves in the foot right there.  This belief system will inch its way into our thoughts and sure enough it will attract more of the same.

As  human beings who are  receiving and sending aerials walking around, it is important to have great thoughts and to get away from the negative emotionally draining situations that sap our vital energy.  When I have been in damaging situations and I am left saddened, I felt my Kundalini stay low for a good while.  This sadness is the perfect vehicle which creates more sadness and it is a domino effect on our Psyche.

One seriously has to take themselves in hand and seed the thoughts that come into the brain around negative situations that produce negative emotions.  If only we understood more about this in depth as a nation.  If we did this, then we could change the consciousness of the entire planet and the results would be astounding as the speed of which change occurs would be evident almost immediately.

Image by Mezza - Neighbours house window looks pretty at dawn

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

Oscar Wilde

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Happy Birthday to our youngest child.  Montana has turned 16 years old.  She is in year 11 at Bellingen Public High School and she has a boyfriend and his name is Anaan and he just had his birthday as well and he is 17 now. 

Montana and I have always had fun together, I felt like I had a playmate finally when she came along. Oh that is a healthy outlook isn't it, Not.  We are here to be their parents not their friends or so the saying goes.  I just wanted a playmate that would not judge me and I could grow up accordingly.  Yes... if you are thinking there is something wrong with this statement then you are correct.  Adults are supposed to have already grown up past this point.

There is a direct correlation between living in institutional care and being held back emotionally.  The adult then has the emotions of a child and needs to complete the proper psycho social tasks in order to be complete in their psyche. I just wanted to know how to play.  I never ever learned how to play.  Play is the serious business of learning to a child.

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Let the birthday season begin...

On the hill today it was a day for celebrations.  Brice turned 46.  We made this special cake with his name on it and  he said he had never had a cake with his name on it before.
A couple of days ago it was Anaan's 17th Birthday and now Bricee's and then mine and Montana's birthday.  So you see it is a season of birthdays not to mention the many Gemini's as friends we all have.

I covered this Cup of Coffee cake with Dark Chocolate Ganache.  It was delicious but when I went to move it I broke a piece off the side.  I had to stick that piece back on the side.  It didn't matter because it still tasted brilliant.

I enjoyed making this cake for Brice.  It was a present for him from me and I made it myself.  I haven't done many cakes lately and it shows.  I was as rusty as hell.  I wish I had grand kids so that I could make cakes for them, that would be fun!

Image by Mezza - Brice and his cake 23rd May 2012

Off to the North is Bundadgen

Bundagen might be seen as a microcosm of the macrocosm, with all the dramas of the wider world played out on our small stage.

For years and years I have wanted to visit here and when I was younger I wanted to live here but I never knew how you did this.  I should just have driven out there I suppose.  I would have met people no doubt.  Strange how things turn out.  But anyway here we are today at Bundagen Community for lunch with Liz and Atalanta.

The food was delicious and well prepared and everything ran like absolute clock work.  I was very impressed as there was a store that sold amazing breads and lots of organic produce right there so local.  I never knew about this. I feel so blessed that Atalanta asked me although I felt out of place as I felt that Liz didn't need my company. 

The beautiful sun stained glass high window.

She is going through issues and I am still buzzing on Uluru and the most amazing spiritual experiences that I had while I was there.  I so want to tell everyone how amazing it was but I guess they only think of the rock and not what else goes on out there and the beautiful people that are living at the rock.  The stories of these woman are so strong and powerful and healing.  The absolute healing nature of sitting with such resolution to nature and feeling safe was a powerful existence I don't feel around here but out there I did.

Images by Mezza - Bundagen Community Mid North Coast NSW

"The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts." James Joyce

The house was in for it today and a huge spring clean occurred and everything was turned upside down and this has been the thought since I returned home from my trip.

Brice did a great job taking care of the house while I was gone and he even repaired the mysterious marks that occurred in the side of the bed room wall.  Well done to him. 
We are washing mats and curtains and dusting and moving the furniture around to liven up the chi energy in the tiny place and make us feel alive again.  Its a good thing and then on the agenda is the plants and they are getting a new lease on life and a top up or a re -pot if necessary.

Image by Mezza - The sun dawns from the hill in Urunga

This 25th April 2012 - ANZAC DAY

Turn Right Into the Firing Line

HMAS ARUNTA ...  My fathers ship in Korea

FORM/FUNCTION/EXECUTION or THE ART CRITIC OF WAR
each and every subject's
easily erased
each model reduced
to black and white figures on a page

portraits of new monsters
an old image retraced
paint it all with numbers
a distortion of common shapes

broken down and rebuilt
servitude in relief
sculpted to be ruins
for a landscape of pride and belief

two thousand feet above
a thousand miles away
nemesis needs no face
for this re conceptualisation of space

may good fortune strike us blind
may we see not their eyes
may they wear our masks so bold
may these young hearts beat cold
that we may destroy all our enemies

I don't see or understand
why or where these men stand
but empathy alone could stay this failed artist's hand.

Thank you Hostage Life 

WAR - Edwin Starr

In the last days there will be wars and rumours of wars.  These last days are the last days of the hell fire PISCERIAN AGE and now thank goodness it should turn around and come good.  Here in this part of the universe today we are celebrating the soldiers coming home from war and our ANZAC DAY...  Australia and New Zealand Armed Corps.  Have a good day with whatever you are doing today.

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Turn Right Into the Firing Line

 This 25th April 2012 / ANZAC DAY

HMAS ARUNTA ...  My fathers ship in Korea

FORM/FUNCTION/EXECUTION or THE ART CRITIC OF WAR
each and every subject's
easily erased
each model reduced
to black and white figures on a page

portraits of new monsters
an old image retraced
paint it all with numbers
a distortion of common shapes

broken down and rebuilt
servitude in relief
sculpted to be ruins
for a landscape of pride and belief

two thousand feet above
a thousand miles away
nemesis needs no face
for this re conceptualisation of space

may good fortune strike us blind
may we see not their eyes
may they wear our masks so bold
may these young hearts beat cold
that we may destroy all our enemies

I don't see or understand
why or where these men stand
but empathy alone could stay this failed artist's hand.

Thank you Hostage Life 

WAR - Edwin Starr

In the last days there will be wars and rumours of wars.  These last days are the last days of the hell fire PISCERIAN AGE and now thank goodness it should turn around and come good.  Here in this part of the universe today we are celebrating the soldiers coming home from war and our ANZAC DAY...  Australia and New Zealand Armed Corps.  Have a good day with whatever you are doing today.

Images are from my pics

Uncle Tom has turned 88,

What a grand age he is.  I hope he enjoys his birthday and that he enjoys the trip to Uluru, I am hoping it will be magnificent and a memorable trip for us all.

We went to the Senior Citizens to have happy birthdays with him.  The School Easter celebrations were also in full swing, 

 Easter is calculated by the spring equinox each year and this is the reason why the date changes as it calculated astrologically speaking.

Images by Mezza - Uncle Tom and Brice