📷 Photo challenge day 22: hometown.

The view from Yerroulbine (Balls Head) on our mid-winter walk in #Sydney yesterday. From this angle Me-mel (Goat Island) seems impossibly close to the CBD.

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A view of the Sydney CBD skyline with tall buildings and Sydney Harbour, featuring Me-mel, or Goat Island, in the foreground.

📷 Photo challenge day 21: silhouette.

Black swans in #Sydney.
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Black swans float gracefully on a serene, reflective body of water surrounded by reeds.

How Walter Breuggemann shaped me

At its best, a family can be ‘a communal network of memory and hope in which individual members may locate themselves and discern their identities’

📷 Photo challenge day 20: gather.

Six seagulls gather on a sandstone rock at La Perouse, #Sydney.

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Six seagulls stand gathered on a rocky ledge beside a sandy beach.

What to do when you've made some notes: Start writing

The next step after taking notes is to create a finished piece of writing, acknowledging that the first draft may be disorganized but serves as a foundation for improvement.

📷 Photo challenge day 19: equal.

💬 “I exist in a fractally connected, self-organized universe where everything relates dynamically to everything else” - Jeremy Lent, The Web of Meaning.

Yes, we all do.

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A page contains the text WHERE AM I, followed by: I exist in a fractally connected, self-organized universe where everything relates dynamically to everything else. From the book, The Web of Meaning, by Jeremy Lent.

Bob Doto is the author of ‘A System for Writing’.

From reading to note-making to finished draft, his approach connects it all.

I watched his discussion with historian Dan Allosso and took notes so you don’t have to.

A book titled A System for Writing by Bob Doto is on display against a blurred background of other books.

#WritingCommunity #NoteTaking #PKM #Zettelkasten #BookWriting #SlowWriting

📷 Photo challenge day 18: texture.

Furry or spiky? Spotted on a boardwalk in the Royal National Park near #Sydney - as featured in day 2.

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A caterpillar with colorful markings and spiky hairs crawls across a textured, square-patterned boardwalk surface.

What I Learned from Bob Doto about Making Effective Notes and Writing a Book

Historian Dan Allosso led a discussion on Bob Doto’s insights on flexible note-taking and writing processes. It emphasised the importance of iterative development and audience engagement. Here are my notes.

📷 Photo challenge day 17: warmth.

We saw a curious warning at this year’s Vivid, the big winter festival of light in #Sydney. #mbjune

A brightly coloured blue sign warns, FIRE IS HOT! DO NOT TOUCH, against a backdrop of foliage at the Vivid Sydney festival.