💬“In these unprecedented times, it’s more important than ever to find better ways to care for and love our neighbors,” - Mon Rovîa.

See also: Who says to care is to disobey?

📷 Photo challenge day 25: decay.

My worm farm is amazing! By turning waste into compost these little wrigglers perfom a kind of magic.

It’s also a metaphor for my writing process. I don’t worry if the input is rotten. The output will be quite different.

A close-up image of a household worm farm, with a mass of wriggling worms, busy turning food waste into garden compost, as if by magic.

See also: No writing is wasted

📷 Photo challenge day 24: bloom.

The bougainvillea does get a bit unruly, but it’s probably worth it. #mbjune

Vibrant purple bougainvillea flowers with green leaves climb on a gray trellis.

📷 Photo challenge day 23: fracture.

A crack in reality at the Edogawa Japanese Garden, north of #Sydney

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Two dense, green bushes are separated by a narrow strip of dark brown mulch.

Don’t throw away your old notes

Don’t throw out your old notes, even if you feel overwhelmed by them. Here are some helpful ideas on what to do instead.

💬 Back in 2018 I said “the next Web will be fit for humans”.

And how did that little prediction go? Well, I’ve updated my original post with some reflections.

📷 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.