Pinching myself. My piece placed 3rd in the Strange Days Award, judged by... Helen Garner 😍 "I was struck by its light touch, the vividness of its physical world, its sense of breathless waiting & then of release & gratitude." Gulp. Thx @mvlibraries

Light and leaves through a fabric screen. Ice on my knee. Thankful I got out into it and faced the wind. #running

Today is Aus Music T-Shirt Day, and I’m wearing a T-shirt of one of my favourite Aussie bands — The Cruel Sea. Get involved by wearing a tee from your favourite Australian artist and, most importantly, head to https://t.co/9HjCs3Scp0 to donate to @SupportAct. Every donation

There's one small slice of light that comes into my house. I used to feel like I was in a bunker. Today I caught the light as it fell on this self-sown lily cut from between our brick pavers. It helps to capture the light when it shines & know that beauty blooms in dark places.

This morning's brief fiery sky. 5.45am. #Elwood #sunrise #nofilter

Started with the glisk. 18km later, finished with the glimmer. ✨#running

'It is a strange, almost weightless thing to feel history gathering around you while you are still inside a moment where history itself is being made.' Beautiful piece from @MrDTJames #Treaty

Long overdue reading, but this week seems a good week to start @palaceletters The Palace Letters. Served up with my #Canberra #Carillon #teaspoon (The Carillon was 'a gift from Britain to mark Canberra’s 50th birthday' & opened in 1970. Sound the alarm bells! 🔔 ) #auspol #Gough

On the anniversary of the dismissal, here’s Gough Whitlam on Joh Bjelke-Petersen. You will not believe what he says. One of my all-time favourite clips.

Here's me with #Gough in #Ballarat for #Eureka event��he signed my flag! 10 years ago, on November 11 2015, we farewelled dad, #Arfur, mindful of the date's significance: mum & dad's wedding anniversary, Remembrance Day & The Dismissal. Big, good, funny men remembered on this day.

Ten years since dad died, revisiting memories from The Plaza Hotel's Oak Room: 'There was something deadly ominous about the darkened room. Bare wood floors, panelled wood walls, slices of weak light coming in through the long, autumnal windows. Funereal.'

This group felt like a chorus of supporters yesterday when I was feeling a bit overwhelmed–old mate #magpie, who had been absent in recent times, suddenly made himself known at the kitchen window & I went out to find 4 species of my special bird friends. What joy! #birds ❤️

from the diary of virginia woolf

Blue bleed #shippingnews #running

“Silence is complicity.” This month, @TheLancet one of the world’s leading and most influential medical journals features Gaza on its cover, highlighting the ongoing health genocide committed by the Israeli army against civilians.

Beyond belief! A space, sky, light, escape, air, wind, birds, vista, clouds, sun, a place. Roofspace, headspace, attic. Relief.

Tennyson's 'Nothing Will Die' facing off 'All Things Will Die'. Keats on fellow poets Byron & Burns. 'The stream flows, The wind blows, The cloud fleets, The heart beats, Nothing will die. Nothing will die; All things will change Through eternity.' All things will change. #poetry

Random Elwood scenes: car down in the old canal; a blossom tree I saved from destruction by going to VCAT wrt an apartment develp't; a stolen blossom from said tree ('my tree') in a vase made by a local & books of some poets after which the streets of #Elwood are named. #running

That's the way @PatrickLenton '...leaving little offerings of crickets in piles (which I was told was better for wild birds than the chicken), taking the time to say “good morning” to every #magpie I see (&) loudly admiring their beautiful songs.'🖤🤍#BoTY

'Together we sometimes reminisce about that blackbird. To us it was Mum, staying on a little longer.' In the days after my mum died, a blackbird lingered like a messenger of solace | Mark Saunokonoko | The Guardian #BoTY #GuardianBirdoftheYear2025

Despite my last experience here sans wetsuit🪼a few months ago, I joined the Great White Swim Club at #BondiBeach this morning. Joined hands for the mindfulness circle & floated on beautiful 'Lake Bondi'. What a way to start the day though brain a bit dazed afterwards. #swimming