In my reading with him on Jan. 18, 2020, through Linda Dillon, Archangel Michael said that the various meditations by people around the world to bring rain to Australia have, so far, been successful. We may not have the “formula” entirely correct – hence the hail and flooding – but we have demonstrated and are […]
Strength From Grief: How Aboriginal People Experience the Bushfire Crisis
Strength From Grief: How Aboriginal People Experience the Bushfire Crisis Bhiamie Williamson, Jessica Weir, & Vanessa Cavanagh, Yes! Magazine, Jan. 23, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/rv5njmf How do you support people forever attached to a landscape after an inferno tears through their homelands: decimating native food sources, burning through ancient scarred trees, and destroying ancestral and totemic plants and […]
#Australian Bushfires, Jan. 24, 2020
There are not as many current stories on the extent of the Australian bushfires as there have been in past weeks. When few accounts appear, we may scale down our reportage. Bushfires rage in Canberra A month on from devastating bushfires, residents in Mt Maria face a long road to recovery Now hail…. Started […]
Aboriginal Fire Management
Cultural burning is proactive, while Western-style controlled burning, also called hazard reduction burning, is reactive. To Help Australia, Look to Aboriginal Fire Management By Abaki Beck, Common Dreams, January 15, 2020 https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/01/15/help-australia-look-aboriginal-fire-management Since September 2019, Australia has been ravaged by bushfires. You know the statistics: about 18 million acres burned, around 2,000 homes destroyed, and […]
Veganism, Climate Emergency, and Lewis, the Koala: Some Thoughts on the Bushfire Crisis in Australia
Thank you to Linda in Canberra for this post. The Golden Age of Gaia does not believe that the major cause of the bushfires is climate-related, but manmade. (1) By Marianna Gonzalez, January 8, 2020 Ecovegan Spirit I was moved to tears by this video and still am every time I remember it. It shows […]
Australian Bush Fires: Rain Brings Joy to New South Wales, Victoria
Up to 50 millimetres of rain has fallen across parts of New South Wales and Victoria in Australia, dampening bushfires. Despite the relief, there are still dozens of other blazes continuing to burn. The weather bureau has warned that the heavy downpour can lead to a number of issues, such as flash floods, landslides, falling […]
Sweet Relief for Parts of Australia
Sweet relief, Jan. 16, 2020 East Coast rain bomb, Jan. 15 Anger turning on Prime Minister More of this please!
Rain ‘Psychologic Plus’ for NSW Farmers
Rain ‘psychologic plus’ for NSW farmers Ashlea Witoslawski, Australian Associated Press, January 16, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/rg8ejdd Rain may give farmers the chance to plant “opportunity crops” in NSW but it won’t break the drought with dry and warm weather expected into February. Farmers struggling to survive NSW’s devastating drought say this week’s rain is “psychologically positive” […]
Rain in Australia: Let’s Not Stop Now!
Folks, we’ve had the first rains in Australia. Granted that they were themselves problematic by causing flooding, (1) they did impact the bushfire situation in the area in which they fell. The tendency would be to think and say that our prayers for intercession and our meditation on rain (which are both uses of the […]
Our Day has Just Begun
What’s going on in the world holds our close attention. From fires in Australia to flooding in Jakarta, from earthquakes in Puerto Rico to volcanoes all over the globe. And here I am writing about Ascension and loving. It feels incongruous. My instructions are to look at these matters from a neutral place, without making-wrong. […]
A Letter from Linda in Canberra, Response to Australian Wildlife Deaths & Being Vegan, and Links from Nelda
Linda wrote in to “Contact Us” saying the numbers in my January 13th post, “National Geographic: How Many Animals are Affected by Australia’s Disaster? are much greater now. She said that she lives in Canberra, Australia, where “the air pollution from the bushfires has been at 26 times the hazardous level.” Thank you, Linda, for […]
Rain, Flash Floods and Thunderstorms Sweep over Melbourne
Rain, flash floods and thunderstorms sweep over Melbourne Naaman Zhou, Guardian, Jan. 15, 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/15/rain-flash-floods-and-thunderstorms-sweep-over-melbourne The rain is forecast to reach bushfire-hit parts of New South Wales and Victoria later this week Heavy rain, flash floods and severe thunderstorms have swept over Melbourne and rain is forecast to hit bushfire-affected parts of New South Wales […]
Kat and Galaxy Girl: Regarding the Animals in Australia
January 14, 2020 “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” ~ Anatole France After lengthy and intensifying drought, more than one hundred Australian bushfires began burning in the states of Queensland and New South Wales in September 2019. After five months, the horrific infernos are still blazing, unabated to […]
Australia is Bracing for a Tsunami of Homeless Women. . .
The post (below) on homeless women in Australia was written on October 10th, 2019, World Homeless Day. With the bushfires, what might the situation be like now? I was walking down the street where I live yesterday and an older woman was begging for money. Usually I see men, occasionally a woman with a man. […]
#AustraliaFires Jan. 14, 2019
Planes Drop Thousands Of Kilograms Of Carrots And Potatoes For Starving Animals Emma Rosemurgey, Unilad, Jan. 12, 2019 https://www.unilad.co.uk/animals/planes-drop-thousands-of-kilograms-of-carrots-and-potatoes-for-starving-animals/ Aircraft are being used to drop thousands of kilograms of carrots and sweet potato to hungry wildlife stranded amid the Australian bushfire crisis. The New South Wales government commissioned the service titled ‘Operation Rock Wallaby’ which […]