Welcome to my regular Friday song/tune day, ladies and gentlemen, where I pick a piece of music that reflects my mood or the times, to share with you.
Like Orpheus, would you look back?
Now for the music.
Kind Regards.
Tracy.
Don’t Look Back
Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge #3
Welcome to Week 3 of my Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge. Corvids are birds belonging to the Corvidae family, encompassing ravens, crows, magpies, jays and nutcrackers. So check out your corvid photo, poetry, music and story archives and join the challenge.
My son, the naturalist, tells me there are two types of corvids in Canberra, Australia — the Australian Raven and the Little Raven. He also tells me they are about the same size and he can’t tell them apart. I don’t know about you, ladies and gentlemen, but I find that a tad confounding. Read more
A Simple Rose
A simple poem to commemorate a beautiful rose and a month of contrasts.
A Simple Rose
in fading light
gossamer petals delight
ethereal bloom
gone on the morrow
fate and folklore entwined
Kind Regards.
Tracy.
Lens-Artists Weekly Challenge — Simplicity
Sunshine’s Macro Monday #36
The Changing Seasons – March 2020
March — Australia creeps toward lockdown. The weather is good but.
Warning: this story contains many bird and nature photos.
It seems an age ago that the smoke of bushfires polluted my lungs and we hunkered down for the summer in our small abode. Then the drought broke and the new corona virus reached our shores, causing chaos and disruption, and threatening to kill a generation. I confess that my summer experience made me hyper-vigilant for danger. Like the virus, my preparations and anxieties gathered momentum as March marched in. Read more
Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge #2
It may come as no surprise to you, ladies and gentlemen, that I am not as clever as I think I am. Now I am in a bit of a pickle corvid-wise. You see, I have a lot of currawong photos that I hoped to share with you for the Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge, but eek, I’ve discovered after starting this challenge that currawongs are not actually corvids (of the family Corvidae). In fact, the only corvids in Australia are the crows and ravens. Unfortunately, I have limited raven photos. Do you think that the powers-that-be will consider, in these dark Covid-19 times, the scouring of the city for ravens to be an essential activity? I guess we shall find out. I fear I might have to resort to some very bad poetry for this challenge. Read more
Land Of Milk And Honey
It seems an age ago that the aphids were attacking my newly sprouted garlic chives. Now as autumn makes its long anticipated appearance in the temperate areas of Australia, the black aphids are back. This time they are attacking a beautiful succulent that my friend gave me last year. The ants are milking the aphids for honeydew. It is a good system. Read more
Good Company
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge — Birds.
I may have too many photos to post, but life’s too short, so I had better get on with it.
Kind Regards.
Tracy
Delivering or Deliverance?
Welcome to my regular Friday song/tune day, ladies and gentlemen, where I pick a piece of music that reflects my mood or the times, to share with you. Today I’ve chosen a song for all those Australian public servants who, after being derided for years, are
“to be an essential service which needs to keep working in order to keep Australians safe, and ensure that services are delivered for the Australian people. We [the Australian Public Service] can provide the support our community needs, but it is going to require the contribution of the entire APS. Every public servant who can work, should work.” Australian Public Service Commission Response to ABC News Story, Last Reviewed 26 March 2020
Sounds more like conscription to me than working together. To add insult to injury, repeat ad nauseam, “Delivering for Australians“, the government’s latest reform agenda to make public servants more responsive. Like what on earth were public servants doing before? Be careful, public servants, you’ll be getting a white feather if you don’t cooperate for reasons of sanity, poor health, protecting vulnerable family members, or staying at home to flatten the curve. I’m sure it won’t come to the feather. Commonsense and kindness will prevail, don’t you think? Delivering for Australians means delivering for government employees too. It’s a partnership.
I wish I had a magic tonic/vaccine to protect all those providing essential services. It is a lot to ask of you. It always has been.
Kind Regards.
Tracy.
Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge #1
Hello Readers, I know we are all busy just trying to stay alive (welcome to the world of many trapped in refugee camps and in poverty), but if you have enough time (and photos, stories, poems in your archive), you may wish to participate in a new weekly challenge. I am calling it the Corvid-2020 Weekly Challenge. No, the virus hasn’t evolved. A corvid is a type of bird. The challenge will come out each Tuesday, all being well (if you know what I mean). Read more
Operatic
Welcome to my regular Friday song/tune day, ladies and gentlemen, where I pick a piece of music that reflects my mood or the times, to share with you. I hear that singing is good for the lungs. You can do it in the privacy of your own home, in a massed choir, or anywhere really. It is multicultural and multi-generational.
Anonymous Doctor:
“Please don’t give in to fear, don’t amplify hatred or outrage or racism or disgust. Hold the line as a citizen of the moral community. Think of every tiny way that you can help others every day. And do it.”
Facts first. Act. Sing/Pray.
Anything else is inhumanity.
Kind Regards.
Tracy.
Reflections of An Untidy Mind 