At home with my friend Rejection Dysphoria
When I first heard the term ‘Rejection Dysphoria’ I cried. It explained so much of what I had experienced through out my life. So much of why I had struggled [...]
Kissing the Virus.
I was terribly shy, and didn’t know what to say, so I said nothing. We sat there in silence holding hands. It was actually very awkward, but super sweet.
Mentoring when life is the lesson
with such a fleeting time on this planet, the appreciation we have for life expands when we allow ourselves to be close to death.
The Theatre of Walking.
As we walk, we are often deeply invested in the theatre of our life, not even aware we are engaging in a type of theatre as we mull over things.
How I survived a bot attack, stumbling through a sea of click farms.
They weren't stopping. My follower count rose to over 3000 in a couple of hours. It was like a force of ghouls from hell, coming to sabotage me.
The Double Edged Sword of Speech
When my mother was very young, the doctor told my grandmother that her daughter would never speak because of the severity of her cleft palate. But my grandmother refused to [...]
Chasing the dopamine; how 16 year old car thieves are helping me fly.
‘If you can find a matching key and lock, it’s yours’ the shopowner said. I looked at the jar packed with keys, then tipped some out onto the table. I [...]
The Tale of the Pop Tart (sorry ‘iced biscuit’) Phone Case!
I want to share with you the tale of the Pop Tart, I mean Iced Biscuit phone case. This is an item which I started selling in my Etsy shop [...]
Botanic Map lanterns and sustainable art
Playing with different types of papers and light for a lantern prototype for a series of light and paper works which will form an installation, using vintage maps, tracing paper, [...]
5 traits I never realised are related to ADHD until I was diagnosed, and how I manage them.
The more I accept my ADHD traits and stop pushing and hustling, the more calm and relaxed I feel.
Playing with lanterns
I guess I am a bit addicted to lanterns right now. They shine the way into the new year for me.
Blasphemy laws perpetuate religious based warfare.
I have always, since a kid, been deeply interested in religion. Not in it’s rules and regulations, which innately often seemed unjust to me, being from a family who didn’t [...]
Every holiday is for everyone, no matter what the belief or practice.
Wishing everyone a happy Solstice, Christmas, whatever you celebrate, whoever you are, whatever you believe, it doesn’t matter, wishing you all the joy there is. Because each of us has [...]
How to foster love in the face of atrocity?
Everyone has a path of love available to them, if they listen and are courageous enough to follow it. This path will take them to higher and higher aspects of [...]
Be in this world but not of it.
Be in this world but not of it. I don’t know who said that, and I zero interest in looking it up. But we have all heard it right? What [...]
Could neurodivergent people be barometers of the spiritual health of a society?
To acknowledge how challenging ADHD can make life is important. But the question is, is it the person who is disordered, or is it the world we live in?
Death is EASY. Love is the Challenge.
It’s time to remember the young people, children and babies killed in fighting all over the world by warring factions stuck in old ways and outdated belief systems on both [...]
Trauma, theatre and truth telling; from the political to the personal.
I am currently producing, dramaturg and translating a theatre production called Surat-Suratnya in Melbourne in December. It is a collaboration between Australian and Indonesian artists about true events which remain [...]
Not Healing, Transmuting
Trigger warning, this blog post refers to violence to children but not in any detail. This is a positive sharing. A couple of months back, I wrote a post on [...]
Paper lanterns and a Summer Christmas aesthetic.
Lanterns are magical because they shine like our souls. Our true selves.
Finding my voice.
I am writing this first post on a plane, coming home from a time in Indonesia, where I worked on a theatre project in the ARTJOG festival, Indonesia’s most significant [...]