coastal clouds

Coastal clouds
empty form substance
nothing sky.

tea and oranges

Tea & oranges
into your goodness
softly i fall

Canberra. Exhibitions

Canberra. AIATSIS

Canberra. National Museum

Mimosa National Park

Prayer flags.

Each morning, I'd take photo of the prayer flags.

Bega Valley. Candelo

Friday afternoon.Spot haiku

i. Love
Silent, bold curves
She holds with masculine care
Smitten

ii.Waiting
Its been days
Stomach butterflies spawn hatch
Got the job! Yipee!

Valentine haiku.

Seeking intimacy
I share one of my ripened pears
soft, sweet.

New TV comedy show, "The Librarians"

"Fun between the covers" was reported in The Age, Dec 28, 2006
The Librarians will screen in the second half of 2007 on ABC.


Robyn Butler will play a repressed librarian in the six-part comedy The Librarians.
Photo: Drew Ryan

Half-lives lived in the suburbs are fodder for a new comedy set in a library, writes Michael Lallo.

As soon as Molly comes home from school, Robyn Butler orders her to disappear. "We're doing an interview because I'm very important," she tells her 11-year-old daughter. "You remember that, all right."

Molly rolls her eyes. "Yeah, OK Mum," she says.

While she might not be a star in her own home, Butler's prospects beyond the domestic sphere appear much rosier. Early next year she'll start filming The Librarians, a six-part comedy produced, written by and starring her and actor-director husband Wayne Hope (The Castle, Boytown). Hope will also direct.

"This is by far our biggest TV project," she says. "We're absolutely terrified, but ridiculously excited. It's our sword to fall on - not that I'm anticipating we're going to fall on our sword. But there's a great joy in not doing something where you think, 'Oh, it's not quite my bag', or 'I didn't write it'. This is ours."

Excited she should be. Butler's fortunes have been rising for some time. She recently left Triple M's successful ToughLove program after three years as Mick Molloy's sparring partner to focus on the series, and she's also writing a film screenplay titled Pink Amazons. (With a flourishing movie career of his own, Molloy subsequently decided to end ToughLove.)

More importantly, she's returning to her true passion: storytelling. "People's lives are fascinating," she says. "I'd love to know everybody's story. It doesn't have to be this big, monumental thing - it's the little things that are intriguing. I'm terrible to go out with because I stare at people constantly."

All that public gawping seems to have paid off. When the ABC's then head of drama, Scott Meek, read the script for The Librarians he virtually green-lighted it on the spot.

According to Aunty, viewers are in for a dose of "love, betrayal and revenge" - hardly the sort of stuff you'd expect to uncover in a suburban library as it gears up for Book Week. Or is it?

Libraries, Butler points out, attract all walks of life. Which is not exactly to the liking of Butler's character Frances O'Brien, head librarian and repressed, passive-aggressive Catholic. Naturally, O'Brien is a little intolerant of her Muslim, Asian and gay patrons. And when her childhood best-friend-turned-drug-dealer (played by Roz Hammond) gets a job as the children's librarian, chaos ensues.

Web 2.0 on Youtube

A little enthography on digital human relations via machines from M Welsch from Uni of Kanas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE Amusing piece.

Happy Haiku 2007.

For Christmas, Hot Cross Haiku Ian and myself have been included on the World Kigo Database.
The site's brief of intention.This database of seasonal words (worldwide saijiki) will give us an opportunity to deepen the understanding of kigo issues and to appreciate the climate, life and culture of other parts of the world.

This is an educational site for reference purposes of haiku poets worldwide.



Nearly, full moon
Deck the skies with fireworks
Happy New Year.


Rolling in excess
Deck the skies with fireworks
Groundhog Day.

(thanks to my neighbours down the road all night party, was that Aretha singing 'Respect' at 8.30am the next morning)

Melbourne street art. Night walk.

Having lived in Melbourne for eight years I've come to love the city's twists and turns in laneways and street art. As a walker and public transport fan, I encounter the landscape as an active participant: a transient relationship.


I'm moved to go back along the same tracks like an ant or doleful sheep. The scenery never sleeps and lolls me a love song. Look listen breathe stare, touch me, till next time, floating in memory heartspace.



Photographs
Guildford lane
Two for the lane
Cash or credit
Democracy the trojan horse
Full of love. Bleeding innocence
Happy lane
Full of love. Green face
OM la 15 minutes

Tai Chi lesson at Exhibition building

I met up with Darren on the last day of 2006 for a tai chi session. We stretched out under the huge trees guarding the entrance to the world hertiage listed Exhibition building in Carlton.

These photos show Darren demonstrating his new moves from the opening sequence of the Yang form. As a beginner student of the yang form, Darren is working out the main stances and the feel of the transfer of weight. Empty and full foot. In tai chi we are looking for the connection between heaven and earth. To anchor like a tree's roots with the footwork. This gives the confidence in balance and form.
After our tai chi practice we headed to Brunswick street for coffee and breakfast. A perfect last morning to 2006.