The shape of things to come

Monthly Archives: December 2012

Thank you for reading, commenting and sharing my little internet soap box. I hope I’m doing something to make the world just a tiny bit better, and I can’t do it without you. Take care of yourselves, your loved ones, your community and your planet. I’ll see you again in 2013. Best wishes, Toni.

I’ve just returned home from a failed attempt to do my usual weekly produce shop down at my local farmer’s market. I go most every Sunday to buy my fruit & veg, perhaps a little free-range meat, and catch up with the friendly faces. Not today though: today it was bedlam as the collective insanity that is Christmas hit the market at full force. We seem to lose the plot a little… Read More

Derwent Estuary, Hobart, Tasmania Tell the people who matter how you feel. (I have some phone calls to make)

These last couple of weeks I’ve been feeling a little low. This time of year does it to me: I get over-scheduled, over-committed, under-slept, and with most folk getting busy with family commitments sometimes I feel pretty alone. I’m tired, and some days it can feel like a bit of a struggle to keep going, but then the little things come along that lift me. This afternoon I took myself on a… Read More

Tall Sundew (Drosera auriculata), Tarkine region, north-western Tasmania. “Discipline is remembering what you want, and then acting on it.” – Tom Franklin

Tasmanians, the Forest Peace Deal Agreement is going through the Upper House, where the legislation will either pass, or crash and burn with a huge loss of public faith and return to community division and ongoing stalemate. The agreement isn’t perfect, I know, but it’s better than no agreement and it has involved compromise from both sides to reach. We can always build from here and work towards a better agreement once… Read More

Don’t be afraid to let your soft side show. Be vulnerable, believe in love.