The Warumpi Band

Black fella, white fella.
It doesn't matter, what your colour.
As long as you, a true fella.
As long as you, a real fella.

All the people, of different races.
With different lives, in different places.
It doesn't matter, what your name is.
We got to have, lots of changes.

We need more brothers, if we're to make it.
We need more sisters, if we're to save it.

Are you the one that's gonna stand up and be counted?
Are you the one who's gonna be there when we shout it?
Are you the one that's always ready with a helping hand?
Are you the one who understands these family plans?

Black fella, white fella.
Yellow fella, any fella.
It doesn't matter, what your colour.
As long as you, a true fella.

All the people, of different races.
With different lives, in different places.
It doesn't matter, which religions.
It's all the same when the, ship is sinking.

What do you read?

 SeaKiwi

"What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading"  Eleanor Roosevelt

I have recently reread Jackson's Track by Daryl Tonkin.  I think every Australian should read this book.  It is a wonderful, moving and tragic true story and shows how misguided white Australian "dogooders" ruined the lives of so many Aboriginal Australians.  The book gives wonderful descriptions and insights into the life of the Aboriginal community.  A way of life we could all learn alot from! 

Life's a garden, dig it!

It has been beautiful out in the garden lately.

Beautiful purple cabbages to make purple cabbage salad.

We've had lots of broccoli (much to Nelson and Django's dismay!)

This is the first time I have grown fennel and I quite like it!

This is the result of me forgetting to shut the net and the chooks getting in. Naughty chooks!

Winter means

Lots of fires.

Very frosty mornings.

Warming up in front of the fire after a bath.

Wearing woolly scarves.

Lots of pumpkins.

A Manifesto for life

 

from Brain Pickings

Things that would be cool to make with the kids

from Mini-Eco

from recycling at school

from Almost Unschoolers

I wonder if this would work with bamboo?  Saw it here.

These are some ideas I want to remember.  I especially like the pop stick river houses. 

Rainbow

Another great picture from the seakiwi