HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Wishing everyone the best for the coming year.

Myles the Magnificent

Myles sets the note for hope for the future, A young man just coming to grips with being a participant in our shared voyage on Spaceship Earth. Just returned from his first os trip & setting out on stage 2 in a few months.

So I've montaged a few of his travel pix & set them in environments he can aspire to next time, having had his first taste of Himalayan trekking & snowboarding in NZ.

The view out the door is what you see from the top of Everest on a clear day. The northern lights are in Greenland.

So there's a couple of extreme goals for you mate!

Meanwhile steady rain as east coast low stalls on Qld coast - will it become a cyclone? We haven't had one for a while. The rain has been falling for 15 weeks (except for a few sunny days mid-November). At last the springs are running and one fall flushed the system & the creeks briefly rose, so if it keeps up we may have welcome floods soon.

What a great way to start the New Year with the gift of WATER!

MAY 2008 BRING ALL THAT IS GOOD TO YOU.
POTENTIATE IT FROM YOUR INNER CORE OF BEING WITH GOODWILL TO ALL.

THE TRIBAL ELDERS and the CYBER ARK.

After my brother and I visited our Aunty and Uncle last weekend I decided I needed to record it for posterity in this Cyber Ark of human experiences. This is my Aunty, today, in her 80's, the eldest of my father's family line. Sorry Uncle but pix I took of you were too blurred - camera shake!

My Aunty

Below, this is my Aunty and Uncle when they were married in 1947, the year my brother was born. The beautiful Australian princess marries her handsome British pilot. They have just celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary, with congratulatory message from the Queen putting icing on the cake, so to speak.

The fairytale is real

The photo above is from my Nikon Coolpix S6 snappa, taken through glass onto framed tiny snapshot, then Photoshopped to resize & clean up. It isn't great but it hasn't come up too bad.

Charley

This handsome fellow is my father, my aunty's brother who fought to keep us all safe in the Middle East and New Guinea. This is taken after the war in 1955. He died in 1972.

Mama, me & Grandmama - 1940

This is my mother, aka Dawn Gold, carrying newborn me with Ivy, my grandma (my father & my aunty's mother), walking down Pitt St., Sydney in 1940. Caught by one of those prevalent street photographers of the day outside Repins Coffee Shop. Mama died in 2004. See Post below.

These are and/or were my tribal elders. Now my Aunt and Uncle are the sole representatives of their generation in my family. They are strong and hearty and will prove what healthy stock we are in their longevity. I bet they outlive me and my brother, both of us being in less than great shape at present. Stay tooned!

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Had all the best intentions of creating more Apophysis digArt today, but got lost in the Magic Carpet of Memories Room after my aunty asked me to list the chronology of my life events. An interesting exercise that brought me to the Cyber Ark concept.

CYBER ARK

These pages and my Flickr pix are going to be around long after I'm gone (IF we survive the climate change biosphere breakdown crisis and I do mean IF, not when). Here I will be able to be accessed by those who come after, so it's a time capsule event. Hello y'all, just in case you have found me.


STORM SEASON IS HERE

View from studio south side yesterday evening as the first Big One blew in.
Green sky means hail.
It did, not here tho, but further east where it lay like carpets of snow.

Hail, lightning strobes, big sudden storms moving through quickly, not much rain. Suddenly the season has changed and it all feels dangerous. Memories of the 2002 tornado that wrecked the studio & garden. Another brewing, time to disconnect everything & put up storm blinds.

Dawn Gold

In memory of my beautiful mama, Dawn Gold.

Born August 7, 1917, died March 27, 2004

Dawn Gold at 25
The operatic soprano.

Mama at 80.

Love forever.

Vale Marcia

For Neryl.
In memory of my Aunty Marcia with love.