Some places are special and they stay in mind as a mental image that you recall later. Doing this has little to do with logic and more to do with feeling, with emotion. For me, one of those places was a roadside on a long downhill stretch the takes you from the escarpment to the coastal plain...
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It’s a morning ritual. Pick up the surfboard not long after sunrise has paled the eastern sky and descend through the rainforest to the small beach below. It’s a good day if the Pacific’s swells are pumping and it’s a good day when the swell is only small. For many who live in this fortunate […]
Read MoreThis is an article I wrote around 2005 and which was republished in Brisbane's Courier Mail newspaper. It was stimulated by the social dynamics I found in Byron Bay while living there then. I suspect much I wrote remains true...
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Local currencies are coming back into popularity to judge by a couple issued by Transition initiatives in the UK. Australian social innovators, however, experimented with a local currency well before the British...
Read MoreIt's not the town, its the landscape it is set in that gives the Byron region its spectacular character. This I was taught by a sea eagle and by quietness as I gazed over coast and ocean to a northern horizon bounded by mountains...
Read MoreMARCH DAYS ARE MILD DAYS in the sleepy northern NSW town of Lismore. And this year they were no different...
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First published in 2008. IF YOU HAVE TIME TO HANG AROUND, I’ll tell you a little story about literature and coincidence. It’s not a significant story nor an exciting one, rather a recounting on one of those minor occurrences that sometimes appear in our lives.
Read MoreIt's magic country, those rolling hills of the Byron Bay hinterland, and dotted here an there among their folds are people who have moved from city to country in search of a new life...
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