There are times when fate seems to be aligning all the planets and bringing brilliance our way - Serendipity!
"The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident."
But is it our 0wn effort, and striving that leads to these discoveries and events even though they may seem to be accidental?
A few days ago someone ask me how my husband and I met.
I choose to speak in riddles.
The first time I wrote this post it had more overtly personal family stories in it, yet I backed away and thought I can't write that post yet because I am grappling with a deeper question.
Which is truer, fact or fiction?
I have responsibilities to those I am going to write of, or be inspired to write characters for.
Women - when strengthened can do so much. There are miracles I see in my mother's life and my own and in the global world of women that bear testament to this.
When my mother was a child, she was the caretaker of the pigs. She had to feed them and fatten them up for the village and then let go.
He asked me, 'What do you think of abstract art?'
I replied, 'I don't have a background in art. I'm a storyteller. But I do like to photograph patterns in nature - ripples in water, how nature becomes abstracted art'
I was thinking how much art fascinates me, and yet I don't know all it's history. I don't feel equipped to comment about art as if I'm an historian or art specialist/expert.
Have you ever written
unlocking & translating emotions into strings?
Have you adopted metaphors from stories
of a trumpet with his man called Dizzy?
Have you spoken Italian simply because
music taught you so?
Do you make references to songwriters
maybe Bob Dylan & his blowing wind,
or Pink writing to the President?
Have you found music gives poetry power…
Australia a home for all people, but looking for peace within with some of its first people.
Travelling overseas we find out what others truly think of us, and sometimes it might shock us to know we are seen as a racist nation when we think of all nations within our nation.
Small country towns have made a place for all peoples, and striven hard to attract, employ and make sure they feel at home in their new homes far from their birthlands.
But there is a space for coming together for all peoples, and despite the debates many make a place for friendship with all peoples, first in this land, latest in this land. The land does not discriminate but offers up its surface for all to walk on, and its beauty for all to enjoy.
And there are those who serve quietly and humbly – thinking of others before themselves. They are ever searching for the happiness of others, and in that is their own. They show all of us how to be and inspire us to rethink who we are as Australians, as world citizens.
And the youth will make a new future, reach out across all boundaries and take up our cultures within culture and meld it into something we don’t yet fully know, or let’s hope so because no person, no cultures, no culture can reach perfection and understanding is the beginning of the journey for perfection. It’s alright to have a good laugh along the way. Joy makes us think more clearly – make our futures more dearly.
My wonder for today – Australians, and the Australia that could be.
(c) June Perkins
This was posted in my wonder a day for January Challenge. You can see the rest of this challenge as it unfolds at Pearlz Dreaming
Me thinking about so many trees gone - self portrait
So what is the typical day in the life of a blogger? Like all writers bloggers are looking for inspiration. They may write the day up they have just had, or a special memory day from several weeks ago, or even further back.
I have found a new pattern to my blogging with ABCopen because now I am approaching it in a way that means I have to be briefer, work with only one image, and place relevant links within the post and underneath.
I tend to hurl a draft down quickly and then let it sit for a few days, whilst I think what was the goal of that blog I was writing. Sometimes the blogs come naturally, easily- and other times I am casting around for an idea that will get to the heart of what the recovery process is like in North Queensland.
The goal is always about resilience, courage and joy, and yet the path to those qualities may be complicated, and have up and down moments. I want to convey all that but ultimately uplift people to heal even more.
Once a blog is complete – the next phase is ‘conversation’ about the topic of the blog with the public. Whilst this conversation is going on I am already one, two or even three blog topics ahead.
I am gathering information from life, news, truth, rumour, conversation, photographs and the special way writers and artists have of being in the world.
Every now and then special events come along, but even if they don’t I have to dig deep to find something of relevance to blog. I realise that a lot of journeys we take are internal not just external. Sometimes you can blog about that.
To follow the journey of recovery and resilience as I blog it, do go and visit the following
There are also some amazing people there, some very new to blogging, who are sharing their experience as well. I like to visit them to make comments and converse with them about how they are going. Why not do that too! Bloggers blog to engage in conversations and be part of the world.
(c) June Perkins
So today a friend on facebook said that a green tree frog is a barometer of a healthy environment. ‘I love green tree frogs,’ said another whose profile picture was her face peering out from a tree frog cut out that you stand in at a zoo. Another commented how his wife paints them in watercolour. Whilst a fellow soul fooder said how much she missed ‘rain you can’t hear over.’ Green tree frogs are such a part of the tropical environments with their endless rain, and rainforest.
It’s amazing how these cute little frogs who appear to be smiling all the time bring such joy and such happy comments. I am delighted, or should I say tickled green, that we have them at our new house and it’s comforting to know they are around after the cyclone.
At the chemist they have been handing out boost your immune system tablets for free. Blackmores donated them in their support of the recovery efforts. A couple of weeks ago it was phone up on the morning to get into the doctors, or a long wait at the hospital and you needed to be practically dying. In such situations most of us choose to tough out our flus.
So today it seems fitting to reflect on healthy environments.
1) Where social, emotional and spiritual well being of each person are taken care of.
2) Where nature is healthy and its native creatures and plants are doing well.
3) Where people have time for appreciating beauty.
4) Where people have the capacity to have a deep happiness no matter what is happening around them.
5)Where the world, it’s people, and environments are healthy
So many lessons from our little green tree frog. They will forever remind me of all that is healthy whenever they smile and grip onto the wall.
(c) June Perkins, all rights reserved, word and image.
I will be closing all my old blogs so some of the links on this page will not work.
Will put up my professional links on here later, and rework this blog a little.
Samples of creative work will be available here or on other select sites.
Thanks.
For now enjoying creating, editing, writing, gardening, and will be back with my posting in January sometime!
