Weekly Photography Challenge: Curves

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The world is full of curves. They are completely natural, and so pleasing to the eye that we make more for ourselves, in buildings and crafted objects. The basket work building is both craft object and building! A team of helpers assisted a master basket maker to produce it, using cuttings from willow trees removed from along waterways, where they grow as a weed. It had a number of ‘rooms’, and was big enough to hold a dozen or more people, and it was full of beautiful curves. The ‘real’ buildings are both in Aberdeen, Washington –  a public library and a ‘mansion’, both curvaceous. The piece of knitting uses a simple stitch pattern that produces curves.

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Daily Post: Singing In The Rain

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As soon as I read the prompt, I knew I had the perfect poem…somewhere. By some miracle, I found it in only a few minutes, and here it is…

Rain Song

There’s a frog in the garden singing
Because it’s raining
And the cat in her cage is complaining
Because it’s raining
And I’ve brought in the washing
Because it’s raining
And freshened up the fire
Because it’s raining
And we wont go for a walk today
Because it’s raining
Hallelujah! I hope it lasts
Because it’s been dry so long.

froggy love

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Untitled Friday Poem

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I have formed an intention to post a poem a week, including those “prepared earlier”, but hoping to push myself to write more. This one was written 10 years ago…

Light as a leaf
I fold into you
I bend in your heart
When nothing is true

Touched by your passing
I fumble for you
And I lie in the dark
Where the true thing is you.

Sunlit leaves

 

The plan is to choose just one poem a week, and illuminate it, if at all possible, with just one photograph. Discipline! Watch this space, every Friday …

My Opinion: Gender War

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Brunswick lanewayWhere women once had to justify their existence by bearing and rearing children, nowadays it’s “get a job” (and bear and raise children in your spare time).

Most women these days are in the paid workforce, but they tend to be paid less than men for the same work; therefore, employing women saves money on the payroll.

Most women these days are in paid work, but it tends to be part-time, casual, menial, underpaid and undervalued work; which not only saves money on the payroll, but keeps women away from positions of power.Monkey in a cage

Most women these days are in paid work, but they still tend to do the bulk of the household work and childcare, which means they tend to be permanently tired and worn down, which in turn makes them unlikely to question the status quo.

Most women these days are in paid work, which is regarded as independence and liberation. But without equal pay for equal work, equal opportunities and training, and an equal share of domestic duties, women remain in a state of weary drudgery, all wrapped up in pretty pink bows.

That’s why it suits Patriarchy/ Dominator Culture to have most women enter the work force – part-time, casual, unimportant, underpaid…

Bend the rules

Overworked and underpaid is no better than the old “bare-foot and pregnant”.

And a woman in charge is a threat to the old order  - bend the rules, gender is not destiny!

Weekly Photography Challenge:Fleeting

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All of life is fleeting, if you think about it too hard, so let’s not.

A sparrow rests a moment on a grape vine; the sea lies calm under the evening sky; a brief abundant flowering of grass-trees after a bush-fire; bees gather pollen from a short-lived poppy; lilies share a moment of glory on the mantel piece; a tree is glimpsed from a speeding car in a hail storm; a wonderful basketry building stands for a few weeks at Fed Square  in Melbourne. Fleeting moments, every one.chickadee!There was a chickadee, a fleeting moment before I took this (it’s still there, hiding).

waiting, Bainbridge

For a more than fleeting moment, Bryan sat under a tree on Bainbridge Island while I was  in the Bead  store…

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