Mix to remix

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Recently I started experimenting with open-tunings and it has opened new musical ideas In the past I found that replacing the low E string ...

Wisdom from Uncle Iroh

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My Facebook Memories offered this gem today Uncle Iroh is a wonderful character in an excellent couple of TV shows, that I've written ab...

Nettles

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Some years ago I became interested in nettle I'd read about the amount of iron it offered and noticed it was growing on the property whe...

Haiku workshop

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Recently I was invited to give a short poetry workshop with primary school students We discussed haiku and senryu, then they undertook an ex...

Fivebough field trip

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Parkview Public School's third grade students were given a guided tour of Fivebough Wetland on 20 August to learn about the important ...

Worlds apart

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This week I watched two science fiction films and got me thinking It started with the sequel to Avatar, which I got curious about because ...

Lamb to the Moorhouse

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This morning I've gone down a bit of a rabbit hole and arrived at a surprising subject It started when I read Austin Kleon's newslet...

Muddy mix

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My partner Jo and I go for walks along a nearby water channel The Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area has many of these and the gravity-fed system ...

Residencies make artists

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I have watched many of Emily's pedal reviews and enjoy her observations One of the things that jumped out in this recent video is her...

Magic kingdoms

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This seems like the sorta thing Disney would produce if they used pollsters instead of test audiences Or maybe it's just a question of w...

Toxic avengers

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I'm beginning to think that "toxic masculinity" is a term that appeals to many people   Rather than serving as a gentle way to...