Swaying in the morning breeze, Growing sunflowers for the bees. Loving the buzzing in the open air, In the flower garden bees are everywhere. ~ From “Flowers for the Bees” by Gregor Hacska & Zanni Louise On the weekend I showed Madeleine and one of her little friends the green and growing things in our…
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How is it possibly even Monday again? I mean I know it’s a cliche to talk about the weekend going by so fast but I HONESTLY think I blinked and missed it. Approximately two hours ago (in my head) it was midday on Friday and one of my best friends in the world, Cara, was…
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There is a hand-drawn sign just inside the door of Kinfolk, a little social enterprise cafe on Bourke Street in Melbourne, and this is what it says. rules of kinfolk allow yourself to BE you…open up to receiving generously and giving generously… teach others with your smile, learn to let your heart sing, your soul…
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It’s no secret I’m a fan of a good food truck. I’ve been slowly eating my way through a good number of them, and you can share that journey with me if you want to, here. But this may well be the best food truck idea yet. Called the Food Justice Truck, it is a…
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Take a look at this fabulous street art project about spreading gratitude. It’s called “The little things.” How it works is that you and I will be able to submit photographs we’ve taken that represent something we’re grateful for. Rain over thirsty grass. A kiss from a baby. Freshly-picked strawberries, still warm from the sun….
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There are only 124 Kakapo birds left in the world. Native to New Zealand, the Kakapo is the world’s heaviest, flightless parrot, and it is critically endangered. There are so few birds that every Kakapo has a name. To me, 124 sounds like an almost impossibly-small number. But it is actually a wonderful improvement: in the 1970s, there…
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Have I told you? Mr B is going to China in a week’s time. He and Madeleine’s biggest sister Meg will join a team of others walking the Great Wall of China to raise funds for cancer services. Pretty amazing huh? I’m so proud, Mr B and Meg have already raised almost $12,000 to support…
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I eased myself down into Madeleine’s bean bag on Saturday night to watch the Federal election coverage. It was predictably depressing. If you were following the Australian elections at all, you’ll know what I mean. I read a tweet a couple of weeks back that said choosing a Prime Minister in this election was like…
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Earlier this week I had a bit of a minor meltdown. I dropped a glass of orange juice and it shattered all over the kitchen floor. The next minute I was in tears, Madeleine watching on in wide-eyed concern that only poured guilt on my inability to cope. I’m just. So. Tired. Our family has…
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A long time ago I heard a talk by a woman who worked with young girls in Afghanistan. In human rights terms, she said, one of the most important ‘rights’ was the right of choice. To choose to learn or not, to earn or not, to marry or not… to live or not. Choice was…
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Melbourne’s train network, Metro Trains, has produced this kinda cute and kinda disturbing song to discourage people from doing silly, dangerous things around trains (like jumping the tracks, standing near the edge of the platform, driving around barriers at level crossings: apparently people do all these things!). The song is called Dumb Ways to Die….
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When a horrific abuse of human rights left 81 people dead after a fire broke out in an overcrowded prison in Santiago, Chile in 2010, musician Nano Stern wrote a song about it. Why? “We have to sing about it, we have to make it into popular culture, we have to sing so that the…
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