Wii Aeng Saa – Sung by the Adventist Choir in Enga Language from Papua New Guinea. Happy New Year everyone. May your 2016 be wonderful, safe and fruitful.
Monthly Archives: December 2015
The Seagulls’ Parade – Photography
Where the Seagulls Hunt – Poem and Photography
I took a trip with my friend Erue Bucher and her daughter, the gorgeous Livuana to Kingscliff towards New South Wales in the last few days. Sea, salt and wide open spaces always affects my perception. It also takes me back to my roots.
Where the Seagulls Hunt JK.Leahy©
Where the sand meets salt,
I will meet my child
Warm rivers reach for the cold
depths of unknown ocean floor;
I touch what is on hold
Down by the seashore,
scattered seagulls roam and hunt
Threading wet and dry powdery sand,
leaving behind a footprint lace,
meandering across wide open space;
mind races across history made
A slender pair of orange legs
tucked under a mop so neat,
plumed white and grey feathers
how much a heart holds so close
Beady eyes remain untethered,
scouting along the ocean shores,
where hungry beachgoers
share the harvest of the summer
Thoughts weaving beyond the shores
and everything flows where tide goes
The Christmas Star – Photography in Gardening
My star of Christmas is this beautiful bromeliad flower. It opened on Christmas day and already there is a feast on its delicate nectar. Bromeliads come from the pineapple family and can be grown all-year around. They originally came from the Americas. Read more on Gardening Australia.
Love – The Only Way to Express Love is to Show it
Love is best expressed when you show it from your heart. Isn’t it just like story-telling? Here is how Lizz Wright puts us straight in her song “Speak Your Heart”. Lizz Wright has been one of my favourite singers for a long time. She composes and sings jazz, blues, R&B, gospel and soul music. I discovered her by accident, while listening to music at a store over a decade ago. I hope you like her too. This is her official website. She is also on Wiki and can be easily found on Google and Youtube.com
Merry Christmas from Tribalmystic Blog
Merry Christmas to all my readers, family and friends. Thank you for all your contributions in making this blog special. I wish you all a wonderful 2016. Here is one of my favourite short videos of singing Melanesian children.
The Glorious Sounds of Harvest Rain for Christmas
Voices, footsteps, coffee cups, elevator, kids playing and then, there was glorious singing. That beautiful sound through the mundane noise of Christmas rush in Toowong Shopping Centre, Brisbane came from the members of the Harvest Rain Theatre Company. At first, I thought of my mother as I listened. How much would she had enjoyed this? Then, as I sang along, I let thoughts of my late grandmother and my aunts and their happy faces go through my head. How many times did we sing in harmony like this together? The thoughts almost brought me to tears.
I walked closer and watched each of them singing joyfully. They were so happy, it was infectious, and my sadness vanished. One by one, the busy shoppers slowed and took notice. Some stopped and listened. I asked the singers for a picture and someone else wanted pictures too. This was how I remember Christmas as I was growing up – the glorious singing.
Thank you Harvest Rain Theatre Company. You made the shopping worthwhile, considering I don’t like shops, crowds or the pretentious conversations of people trying to sell you something.
Merry Christmas to all you!
Night Visitor – Insect Photography
Our night visitor never left. The long-horned beetle entered our house on Sunday night and was flying around crashing into everything and everyone. My son took it outside, but yesterday I found it alive and under a floor mat.
The brown/reddish native beetle from the Cerambycidae family (according to Queensland Museum) was supposed to live in open forests and woodlands throughout Australia. It has been accidentally introduced to many overseas countries where it is a serious pest in eucalypt plantations. The white, legless larvae of this beetle bore under the bark of recently dead or sick eucalypts lives for several months.
The beetle is 15–30 mm long. This one in our house was at least 45 mm long. This species has a dark-brown, elongated body with a pale band and spots at tips of wing-covers. The reddish antennae is much longer than the body. When I photographed the beetle yesterday, it was very aggressive. I returned it to the woods.
A Tribute to Paper – Cool Stuff
Artist and industrial designer Lilian van Daal makes exquisite things from various materials. Her collection made cool stuff this time. Here, she pays tribute to paper by showing it in ‘delicate textures’ to remind us of how we give little value to paper when we use it, perhaps sometimes irrationally in our every day lives.
Lilian says: ‘Delicate Textures’ she hopes, would make us think about the everyday use of products and materials. In this collection paper is immortalized in an exclusive porcelain object. It is a tribute to paper and its origin. It makes us aware of the self-evident use of paper, since it appears and disappears again and again in our daily lives.
Here are some of Lillian’s other fascinating creations. A 3D printed soft seat.
Lilian van Daal (1988), graduated from Industrial Product Design HAN – Arnhem in 2010 and in January 2014 she graduated from the Postgraduate Course Industrial Design at the Royal College of Art – The Hague.
Besides her own work, she has worked for Studio Drift, Feiz Design and Bleijh Concept & Design. She started in 2010 with working as junior designer at StudioMOM, where she still works.
Beyond the Petals – Photography
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