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At the conclusion of the school's activities celebrating oral culture, we sat in the staffroom enjoying the elation a successful day of creativity elicits. A teacher sat beside me and told me she had read the story of The Mermaid of Zennor eight times that day, once for each of the groups who visited her. A tale from her own cultural tradition and home country, it brought her great joy to be able to share it with the International school community. She confided in me that even though she… Continue

Photo: A lone Wattle Bird in the Grevillea

‘...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitles… Continue

Picture of Lace Monitor at Shelley Beach, taken by Roman

Goannas are monitor lizards, so named by Europeans, who, first seeing them in Australia, thought they were like the South American iguanas, hence ‘goanna’ is derived from ‘iguana’. The Aboriginal people, depending on their language group have many… Continue