Posts from the bush

Saying Goodbye to a Partner: A Souvenir

June 20, 2009 – 6:06 pm

This week, when the storms came and the rats and python got into the shed, I had to do some quick work to rescue my scrapbooks. I was unprepared for the emotional impact. But the urgent task became a meditation and yielded a great blessing. My father’s American Green Card (such a valuable treasure for [...]

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Remembering Mary Ann Hiserman

June 20, 2009 – 8:08 am

My friend, Peter, the local real estate agent, came over the other day to see how the building was coming along. He’s been cheering us on, especially during the storms and floods. I found a plan and we walked around the building site.  “Great that it’s all on one level,” Peter smiled, pointing to the ramp on the [...]

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Fog in the Valley

June 19, 2009 – 9:09 am

  When there’s morning fog in our valley –  as there is today – I go inside. I can no longer see the sacred mountains my activist neighbours saved from logging with fierce campaigns in the seventies and eighties. My daily glimpse of a politicised landscape to remind me what’s important. What we’re fighting to save. [...]

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Peggy’s Salon

June 18, 2009 – 4:38 pm

Living in the bush has its limitations, to be certain. We have most things in my village of 350, largely due to our hectic tourist trade: a pharmacy, a hospital, doctors, a post office, a hardware store, a garage, great organic food, fine coffee and an excellent hairdresser. I’m always comforted to hear from my hairdresser [...]

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Knispering: Are Rats Smarter than Humans?

June 17, 2009 – 4:41 pm

Jarlanbah Eco-village, Nimbin, NSW   The Introduction to Kitchen Table Sustainability starts the book off on a bucolic, if pessimistic, note. Three of the authors are sitting around the tables on the porch of our shed here in Nimbin and speculating about the future and the future of all generations – of all beings. So [...]

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