Aireys Inlet, Australia
As Autumn 2021 comes to an end, I have looked back over some images from April, May and June as far back as 2017.
Hi Ronald, Although I first clapped for this piece a year or more ago, I just came to it afresh and indeed liked it very much afresh!! Seeing you spell out the story behind a straight man's reasons for reading 'M-M romance' helped me understand your own interests and motives as well as those in general for non-gay men who read that sort of thing.
As you know from our previous encounters I am similarly aged but incorrigibly Bi. Also until very recently I have had a horror of Romance Novels of any sexuality. My very first serious girl friend…
Short Fiction from the Aussie Shorts series
When Elizabeth decided to return a day early from her visit to Aunt Joan in Camperdown, she thought it would be fun to surprise Lachlan.
“He loves surprises . . . when I throw open the door, he’ll devour me with kisses,” she gushed, not noticing the pronounced rise of her favourite Auntie’s left eyebrow upon hearing her niece’s confident announcement.
“Oh, do send him a text,” laughed Joan. “He’ll probably want to pick up his underwear from the living room floor.”
In the event, Elizabeth herself was the one who got the bigger surprise, as she found herself gazing…
Not still. Again! Our system is to lock down until there are no cases then open up until signs of an outbreak occurs. But we have just started our 4th separate lock down, but remember Melbourne a city of five million people has had zero cases, zero deaths, for the last 3 months. The only exceptions are a small number of returning citizens who quarantine for two weeks. UNfortunately we have had another outbreak this week due to a breakdown of the quarantine system.
In any case, overall, Australia has had only about 35 deaths per million compared to the…
The quality of light in Australia tells its own stories. Often the colour appears a little over-saturated. It’s as if you’ve opened your eyes a trifle too wide. It’s as if there were some bright light event somewhere nearby. It’s as if technicolor movies had just come in, and we were all still in love with them.
Exhibit 2 from Singing the Land, Signing the Land (Verran/Chambers)
Important Note: Exhibit 2 was written by Helen Verran (based on the work of members of the Ganma Research Project at Yirrkala*) and Wade Chambers (based on the work of the members of the Imagining Nature Textbook Project at Deakin University and the Institute of American Indian Arts*).
Part 4 of the series Queer Reflections on Religious Meaning
I agree with most of what Kyle Chastain says in this thoughtful essay about five common beliefs about God that people should reconsider. But I would like to ‘fine tune’ a point or two. If God is a spirit; if God is not human; if God does not have a body, then it is surely a mistake to assign God a gender. Whenever we use the pronouns He and Him in reference to God, then we fall into a devilish language trap.
God can encompass both masculine and female traits without actually having a penis or a vagina. One might…
David Wade Chambers
Words and Pictures. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
