The three principal endeavours of a Bard:
One is to learn and collect sciences;
The second is to teach;
And the third is to make peace
And to put an end to all injury;
For to do contrary to these things
Is not usual or becoming to a Bard.[i]
The series of writing in And So it Goes interrogates Australian culture in the context of family and truthtelling.
CONTENTS
‘Rusty’ Rups’ Xmas in the Camps
Remembering Elizabeth Pulley on ‘Australia Day’
Anzac Day: Remembering family, their stories and reality’s challenge to idealism
Anthony Rope and the Sydney Cove Brickworks
Australia Day: conflicts and alternatives
Education Week: the Mudgee Ropes and the Lawson Creek Schools
Rusty Rups’ Liberation from Kranji
Embedded Racism: we’ve been here before
Remembering Rusty’s time as WWII prisoner-of-war
Australia Day, Welcome to Country, Loving Country and sand talk.
If we could just dance together we would be friends: Remembering Margaret Walker OAM (1920-1996) for International Womens Day
Revisiting Australian History.
I began blogging in 2013 at ‘For Love of Gaia’ (Homepage). ForLoveofGaia explores the intersections of life experience, culture, religious and spiritual beliefs (spiritual ground), the emerging theories and philosophy of new science, and practice/spiritual matrix (performance, ritual, performance-ritual). Since the I have extended to writing about ancestral journeys such as, Elizabeth Pulley Sets Sail and other stories and From Miller to Rope, the Matriarchs as well as uploading a visual summary and the text for the performed elements of my thesis, Centre of the Storm.
[i] The Triads of Britain as quoted in Pennick, N. Celtic Sacred Landscapes, UK, Thames & Hudson, 1996
And So It Goes....... 