Creating the Future: Dress Ups
My little niece discovered as stash of dress-up boxes in the 'Cathedral', my storage shed here at Gardenfarm. That led to an auntie-niece...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 9, 20192 min read
The Italian Lady
'Seven children! How do you cope? gushed the lady. Maybe this memory is an encounter after church. 'Well, I don't cope really' was my...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 8, 20193 min read
People will shelter in your branches
A worthy aspiration is to become tree-like. You pick a good spot, make the most of the natural forces that comes you way, and soon, just...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 7, 20191 min read
Suspend Your Disbelief
When my wonderful WWOOF helper miho came to stay, she didn't heat anything in a microwave oven. She believed it hurts the food. People...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 6, 20192 min read
The Ernst Effect
There I am, trying to cut corners and do the sloppy, easy thing. The thing that won't get me to where I want to go. Then I remember The...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 4, 20191 min read
The Ugly Bridge
On my daily walk in Jubilee Park, I was crossing the foot bridge, and a little girl also crossing said to her dad. 'I hate this bridge....
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Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 4, 20192 min read
Don't Let Them Take Your Stuff
You earn money, then oh dear, your landlord, shopping centre and others want exactly that amount. You plant a garden, then oh dear, the...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 3, 20191 min read
When life gives Yuki Lemons...
Gorgeous Yuki came and interned here at Gardenfarm for six weeks, in the spring. She made pies, rode horses, planted gardens, and did...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 2, 20192 min read
We make art so our friends can find us.
I see things I think are wonderful, and I chase them. My capacity for admiration might just be my superpower. Its as if its my job is to...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Feb 1, 20192 min read
Put people where they do well.
Someone asked me 'What's Social Permaculture?'. It took me one second to reply. 'Its companion planting, of people. You say 'This guy...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Jan 29, 20191 min read
Rich Enough to Say True Things
I have such an interesting mother. The other day her car was stolen. 'When the insurance company ask me if it was locked or not, what...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Jan 29, 20191 min read
We Pass it On
A person dear to me, hyper-active and hyper-successful, came to stay, here at Gardenfarm. On her last day of holiday, I gave her a back...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Jan 28, 20192 min read
Following Nature. My Neighbor Mario
The curves that nature creates embody life as it unfurls. Life is precious, thats why we perceive tendril-like, undulating curves as...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Jan 27, 20193 min read
Envisioning Australia Day
If January 26 celebrations mean 'Become artificially happy because something wonderful happened in 1788' then Australia Day would be for...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Jan 25, 20192 min read
Predictable Accidents
My iPhone slid into the river yesterday. I'm usually completely focused whenever my darling phone and I are over water. But yesterday I...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Jan 25, 20191 min read
Gravity and Levity.
Things go down. Thats the law of the universe, right? We get old, discouraged, tired, the sparky young cosmos looses interest in...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Jan 24, 20191 min read
Prayer for tough days
'Universe, before humans came along, you had no suffering. Thankyou for making us anyway.' That was my grace before dinner tonight. I've...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Jan 23, 20191 min read
Passion or Enthusiasm?
Find our passion is a more delicate job than you’d think. Passion, as us Catholic people know, describes pain at its apex, The Passion Of...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Jan 22, 20192 min read
We aren't building Paradise. We are already in paradise
I've just emerged from a weekend of Bathing, Building and Bonding at Dr Marc's meandering, ever-evolving home on the hillside in...
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Cecilia Macaulay
Jan 21, 20191 min read
'You never have to think a thought twice. Unless you like thinking it'
This wonderful quote from Dave Allen was such a surprise and relief to me when I first heard it. When I'm worring, or having tedious...
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