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1st Jan 2022 Sharon Uncategorized

New year reflection

image source pixabay This time of year is always a moment to pause for reflection before the hectic pace again resumes. I entered the 2021 Christmas period with a sense of exhaustion in every sense, not because the year had been especially intense for me, it had not. I know people for whom the year, … Continue reading New year reflection

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We acknowledge the Traditional Owners of country throughout Australia and recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and culture. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.  Acknowledging that Aboriginal sovereignty over these lands has never been ceded.

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Continuing with NAIDOC week posts, celebrating fantastic First Nation writers and thinkers. Had to post my favourite from recent years, Tyson Yunkaporta' s brilliant Sand Talk, an amazing, intellectually exciting, funny and entertaining book. Highly, highly reccomend. Our library has two copies, check it out. Pictured here in front of Young Yaritjis Tjahatjukuppa (honey ant story), one of the fantastic pieces of Aboriginal art we are lucky to have in the UniSQ library.
Celebrating NAIDOC with some of the great Aboriginal authors in the UniSQ collection. I can highly recommend Larissa Behrendt both her non-fiction and her fiction work. Best known as a prominent Aboriginal legal voice and an award winning novelist, we have several titles by Behrendt in the the collection. Finding Eliza offers an enlightening perspective on the famous story of Eliza Fraser, the ship wreck story is well known to Queenslanders but Behrendt brings a critical and informative eye to colonial storytelling. Highly recommend this title. We also have Behrendt's wonderful novel Home in the collection.
A chilly night camped right on the river, so needed some wild time. Gorgeous sundown reflection. #granitebelt #Stanthorpe #AussieBush #Sunset
My current read: #JessieGreengrass The High House, a compelling cli-fi novel, bloody depressing really, all too plausible, all too real. Nice writing, character driven, bolting through it at the moment. #climatechange #NatureReading #NatureWriting #BooksAndCoffee #Books #NatureReadingChallenge #Bookstagram
Something magical about sunflowers. The wet weather has impacted the flower farm so they had an open field day, for $10 you could come and wander and pick as many as you could carry. Now the house is full of cheerful yellow! #sunflower #sunflowers🌻 #SunflowerDarlingDowns #Toowoomba
Breakfast at #deDutchcafe lovely ginger chai and lemon pancake, lovely staff even bought out a doggy bag for the girls since they got left in the car on this visit, bit cold for outside today, the hounds are spoilt. De Dutch cafe is a gem of a cafe in Newtown, one of my favourite cafes! A perfect spot for a coffee and a break with a good book. #pancakes #coffeeandbooks
Last Saturday had pleasure of attending the inaugural Warm Words in Winter at the #LighthouseToowoomba as part of Toowoomba's #Wordfest what a fantastic event that was! Got to listen to the very impressive DrSarahPye speak about the importance of narrative in getting the nature science message out. Currently reading Sarah's Saving Sunbears the story of Malaysian ecologist Dr Wong Siew Te' s mission to save the #SunBear. Also bought and read 3 of Sarah's books for kids, I only meant to try one but glad I bought 3 will check out all of her Wildlife Wong series for kids, great balance of narrative, science and practical engagement with experiments for kids included. Great books for the junior ecologist. Check out Sarah on Instagram @author_sarahrpye left #Wordfest last Saturday feeling inspired and motivated, hope they include sessions on nature or environmental writing at future events. Sarah was fantastic, inspiring. #NatureReading #NatureWriting #KidsNature #Books #Bookstagram
Who else has mulled wine instead of birthday cake? Also got the flu or some bug for my birthday so just keeping up fluids. 😁 Mulled wine and a big bowl of pho can't think of a better birthday dinner. Bron despite being sick got up and made the mulled wine and ordered the pho, none of us were up to cooking or going out, but I think this is the best birthday dinner I have ever had. Surprised rest of family is talking to me since I bought the bug into our household. #mulledwine #birthdaydinner #sharingiscaring
Pre-work coffee and books. Bony at Bermagui was another interlibrary loan, thankfully so, it is only 110 pages and a bit repetitive so not really worth purchasing. Has curiosity value, one for the die hard Upfield fans, contains a couple of essays about sports fishing at Bermagui, a short story, not Upfield' s best and a chapter from The mystery at swordfish reef. A quick read for the Upfield fan or anyone curious at sports fishing at Bermagui. #Bermagui is an incredible place, had hoped to visit the Sapphire coast this year but that is probably on hold for a bit. Incredibly beautiful piece of Australia.

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