Just a little more time (Carboniferous)

September 30, 2022

Just a little more time (Carboniferous)

For Fossil or flesh, Australian Fairtyale Society Conference 2022

Carboniferous

Gaia’s pattern crafts

A woodwide web of life time

Sunbeams and stardust

Unleashing deep time

Intoxicating present

Flaring our unborn

Sun fossil elder

Gold life, time growing present

Humanity blinks

Fly golden and black

Regent flight pollination

Following nectar flow

Green fossil wise one

Keeping watch on us all

Wollemi whispers

Worm hole in the soil

Engineering ecosystem

Carboniferous

Deep orbits of wild time

Lifetimes’ wealth born in song

For dusk or a dawn?

I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the homes of the Wollemi Pine, the Regent Honeyeater and Spotted Quoll the Wiradjuri, Dharug, Wanaruah and Darkinjung people. I pay my respects to their elders, past, present and emerging. Their land was never ceded. I support the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

Inspiration for the story

Urulu Statement from the Heart

The Uluru Statement from the Heart is an invitation to the Australian people. We ask Australians to accept our invitation to walk with us in a movement of the Australian people for a better future. We call for the establishment of a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Constitution and a Makarrata Commission to supervise a process of agreement-making and truth-telling about our history.

Prince Charles was an environmental radical- what happens now he’s King? National Geographic, UK "Perhaps the very nature of being able to trace his family tree back through the House of Hanover to 1630 as well as centuries of royal estate ownership give Charles a precious long-term perspective.

“I have rather subscribed to an outlook shared by many indigenous peoples that we must be thinking seven generations ahead really to have any chance to be sure that we leave a better world behind us,” he said earlier this year. And he frequently refers to the sense of duty he feels towards the next generations."

Regent Honeyeater

Twice a year (Covid permitting) I travel with a group of forester friends to plant trees in the Capertee Valley, regenerating forest home homes for the Regent Honeyeater. In living memory, Regent Honeyeaters travelled in large flocks, now there are are only about 350 birds left in the wild. Isolated from their large flocks and uncle teachers, male Regent Honeyeaters are forgetting their love songs. Researchers are offering song schools to captive birds to help them remember their songs.

Hitting the right note: why endangered Australian songbirdsare being taught to sing in captivity, The Guardian 18 June 2021

‘Love song’ lost: the fight to stop Australia’s regent honeyeater from dying out, The Guardian, 14 Nov 2021

Regent Honeyeater information and volunteer opportunities, Birdlife Australia

Saving the Regent Honeyeater, a conservation and management guide, Birdlife Australian (PDF Download)