Belonging

Writer Out of Residence: Archives

I’ve been researching, investigating and writing about belonging for several years. This blog is a collection of some of my thoughts, interviews and experiences.

Enjoy. Ponder. Be Inspired.

Neighbour Day & building community

Belonging, Interesting Ephemera

For April I’ll be looking at community and friendship as a way into belonging. To kick off the month I hosted a Sunday morning tea, inviting...

Brush Turkeys, or how people exclude the familiar

Belonging, Interesting Ephemera

''People would travel the world over just to witness these birds because they’re so famous and interesting and yet here we are, they’re commonplace,...

How natural light triggers moments of belonging

Belonging, Interesting Ephemera

''My Australia, the one I grew up with, and whose light and weather and range of colour shaped my earliest apprehensions of the world, was not dry...

Light, landscape & artist Fred Williams

Belonging, Interesting Ephemera

''I work on the assumption that I don’t want to impose anything on the landscape. I don’t care where the landscape is... Just so long as it’s the...

Inspirational Australian women

Belonging, Interesting Ephemera

''And why shouldn’t a woman be tall and strong?’’ Louisa Lawson, Australian suffragette and newspaper publisher (Australian Dictionary of Biography)...