Category: Journal
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Anti vaccination protesters and the superheroes.
Over the last week, Canberra has seen significant disruptions to business as usual from a large contingent of anti-vaccination (and anti-vaccination mandates) protesters from all over Australia. Whilst mostly peaceful the protests have at times been disruptive to traffic and businesses, and on occasion, disrespectful, intimidating and abusive towards individuals. Tomorrow they are planning to…
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Are the people you meet in your dreams actually conscious?
OK then. You are dreaming. And you meet this woman.She has a conversation with you, and then she suddenly points across at a mountain you had not noticed up until that very moment. The question is: Who is controlling the behaviours of this dream woman? Why did she suddenly point? Is a part of your…
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Jabbing the kids.
Another shift at the mass vaccination centre. Today Im doing the five to twelve year olds. I have learned much in the ways of Minecraft, and Spiderman, and Frozen. I have been educated in the fact that there are 16 unicorn stickers on the wall of my vaccination booth. And that I look like I…
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I’ll see you on the other side of sesshin.
Well Im about to go off grid for a week. I will be attending the yearly sesshin (an intensive 7 day meditation retreat. Sesshin literally means: touching the heart-mind) with the Black Mountain Zen group. The retreat is being held at a beautiful location beside Lake George just outside of Canberra. I’m all packed for…
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That’s a wrap.
Ripley is all washed, wrapped up an bedded down for a couple of weeks. I’m off to a meditation retreat & Kelly will be working. Spent the morning washing away the accumulated mud, bug kill and grease from our last trip. Ripley is a big girl and it takes a while to reach all her…
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How to improve your life in 3 steps.
Go and buy a simple bunch of fresh flowers (these cost $8.00)* Place in a small vase and position in a place of high psychic energy karmic cleansing & cosmic vortex confluence (alternatively, use kitchen table). Appreciate EVERY time you walk past. Thats it. There is no 4th step. Except perhaps, stop wasting your energies…
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I’m going to FLOP at this truck stop.
Location: ///undergrad.sibling.dissolving Basically, I’m sleeping at a truck stop tonight. I’m still about an hour away from the place I need to be tomorrow morning, but it’s tea o’clock, it’s all rainy and gloomy and I’m feeling driver-drowsy. Eww, a truck stop? I find something kinda neat about staying at a truck stop overnight. And…
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Parsley sage.
Kelly and I took Juno for our daily COVID lockdown constitutional this morning. We noticed a lady up the street had set out a small herb garden for passers-by to help themselves. It’s the little things.
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