“One day it will all feel like a dream”

October 2, 2011 Posts on Contemplation

This week in Sydney two mothers unintentionally ran over their children in their 4-wheel drive vehicles (SUVs). I’ve found myself reflecting on the wasteland of unimaginable grief in which those two mothers must now be journeying. I imagine they will be feeling that it’s without end. I have a Facebook friend, Vicki Woodyard, who has [...]

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Dream of the Animals, Rozelle Markets

October 2, 2011 Posts on Art+Psyche
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Place the Truth You Know Before the Desire You Feel

October 2, 2011 Posts on Contemplation
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Vernon Howard, by many accounts, was a ruthless teacher and some were unable to handle his onslaughts. But here’s a more gentle quote from him: Place the truth that you know before the desire that you feel. (The Power of your Supermind, Chap. 12, p. 156) For me this speaks of the power of a [...]

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Early in the Day…

September 24, 2011 Posts on Contemplation
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Early in the day it was whispered that we should sail in a boat, only thou and I, and never a soul in the world would know of this our pilgrimage to no country and to no end. In that shoreless ocean, at thy silently listening smile my songs would swell in melodies, free as [...]

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Pleistocenic Memory, Surry Hills

September 23, 2011 Posts on Art+Psyche
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Ode to Emptiness, Trumper Park

August 3, 2010 Posts on Art+Psyche
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crone

July 17, 2010 Posts on Art+Psyche
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crone wraps the shawl around her in a way of saying i’m enough – sits in front of our block her old bones chilled – warming now, us seeing her knowing we want her, the wise crone in our lives

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Kevin Meagher’s Blood Kali Change

July 13, 2010 Posts on Art+Psyche
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Kevin Meagher, Blood Kali Change Here’s another energetic work by Kevin Meagher, from his recent show at Callan Park Gallery; a work dripping with death, time and transformation. From the Kali entry in Wikipedia: The figure of Kali conveys death, destruction, and the consuming aspects of reality. As such, she is also a “forbidden thing”, [...]

Tagged as: Callan Park Gallery, Kevin Meagher, Outsiders

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Cascade and Veils from a Lost Land

July 9, 2010 Posts on Art+Psyche
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Be Warm Towards This…

July 9, 2010 Posts on Contemplation

W hen I was a child I was fascinated by mirrors. My mother had a bedroom dresser with wing mirrors, and it was endlessly interesting to tilt the mirrors so that they reflected each other – creating an infinite cool-blue recursion of reflections that flipped my mind. Interspersing my head into that zone of recursion [...]

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