Fresh garden strawberries, raspberries and native white elderberries. Meringue and fresh cream and plant-based alternatives. Elderberry cordial with ice and fresh mint leaves (pineapple sage if you prefer).
We acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land, and recognise their ongoing connection to land, water and community. We pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that Sovereignty was never ceded.
We give thanks. We have so much to be thankful for.
We dine, tell silly stories, remove our shoes and enjoy the soil/sand/grass beneath our toes as we gaze up through the trees to the clouds and birds beyond.
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This year, Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere is at 3.19pm on Sunday, December 22nd. Much of Australia is experiencing extreme heat and bushfires. Many people and animals have lost their homes, if not their lives. While being acutely aware of this, I take this moment to recognise the incredible beauty around me. Tomorrow I will look for ways to help.
Mental Dust-Bunnies 
The Earth Mother is speaking loud & clear, yet the humans refuse to listen, because she speaks in actions, not words, keep exporting that filthy polluting Coal, Fire will rage across the land, drought will come & floods also. Your leaders are all blinded by the Almighty Dollar, as is most of humanity, Expect Nature to fight back. I would warn people that a terrible storm is coming, if we fail to control our population, then Nature will find a way to do it for us. I do not mean to be a Dark Cloud, but maybe a Dark Cloud is what is needed now, if our Children are to inherit any kind of future at all….The Greed & Lust for Power must cease…..Service to Mother Nature is the answer, the First Service is to clean up this trash dump we have turned our precious home into, the Second Service is to return to caring and Loving our one and only home, there are no “Lightships” coming to carry us away…..Better wake up^ soon, people!
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Completely agree. Thank you.
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Take care of yourself. The images I’ve seen of the fires look so terrible.
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Without wanting to jinx myself, I’m relatively safe where I live now. Thanks for your concern. Those fires are beyond my comprehension – never seen anything like it before.
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Earth, as a system reboots itself periodically with no care to its inhabitants. Like a human who covers themselves in lye to rid themselves of lice, the earth simply raises or lowers its temperature to make it uninhabitable for the irritant. Earth endures, we don’t
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We’re irritating alright!
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