When poetry can be enough
Sometimes, by accident when reading, or talking, or listening, I come upon words and ideas, or silence; and then what I see or hear can be enough. Sufficient. Sustainable, sustaining. May I offer Will Shakespeare’s 29th sonnet in this sense, and invite you to read it aloud with a song in your heart: When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And... Read More
Sleep at last
Sleep is as important as waking. In sleep we make sense of the day, of our life and we restore our body. To see the ravages caused to our body and mind by unhealthy sleep, and to see solutions, see this article in one of Australia’s leading new publications, The Conversation. Read More
Jess Miller’s compost facts
Mike Simonds emptying a road garden compost bin in Chippendale Jess Miller is an ideas person who gets local food, composting and gardening going on the ground, the internet and in communities. In particular, Jess is the founder of the Grow it Local project. Here are some facts from an email Jess wrote this week to Monica Barone, General Manager of Sydney City Council: “So when we surveyed participants in 2012, and again just last month... Read More
Real food pop up cooking school
Kate Walsh, a Sydney real food seller and promoter, has pop up cooking classes this July. Learn how to make real butter, sausages, tortillas, pickles, ricotta and other foods from the farmers and producers who make them for a living; from Feathers and Bone to Pepe of Pepe’s butter. Information is here. Read More
More road gardens, from Darebin Council on . . .
This blog exists for two reasons; to share information I find, and to hear from you of your doings and thoughts. Here are two thoughts by others. Firstly, the writer who blogs about property on the Sydney Morning Herald, Carolyn Boyd, has written about the pleasures and surprises to be found from her road garden and has mentioned the ecopops I’ve designed in the same story, here. Secondly, an email from Cameron Schmelitschek in Melbourne... Read More
