Waikanae News Flash - 1

Well we have finished two bottles of Moet, had dinner at Mussel Boys and Sue, Ted, Lethe and I have decided to write some things for the blog. Outside there is an awesome display of fireworks happening. Have made a decision we will go and buy some of these fireworks tomorrow and have our own display Monday night!

Katrina

Fresh winds and turkeys

Hi Folks! Sue and Ted are at our kaainga here in Waikanae!!! Now we have seven people living in our house. No wonder there are fireworks going off in the heavens - literally actually, since its the old-fashioned Guy Fawkes celebration here. I'm nourished. I like how Sue says 'see those hedges' and I go 'oh yeah, those are hedges that I've been walking past all year but haven't seen'. Fresh eyes to see. Mirrors to us our beautiful home of mountains and sea and peace and hedges. Fresh breath, fresh heart, news from home, time to rest together, to play, to korero and share breath. I like how Ted just comes out with the description of the old turkey that I've looked at oddly all year; "he looks like a scrotum"!!!! (He does too!!!)

Here's a waiata (song)

Whakataka te hau ki te uru
Whakataka te hau ki te tonga
Kiamakinakina te uta
Kiamataratara te tai
E hi ake ana te atakura
he tio, he huka, he hauhunga.
Tihei Mauriora!

Cease the winds from the west
Cease the winds from the south
Let the breezes blow over the land
Let the red-tipped dawn come with a sharpened air,
A touch of frost, a promise of a glorious day.

Kia ora tatou e whanau! Neat to feel you all with the presence of the birds who've flown in from Melbourne, warm greetings and love, from Lethe

Stars and Sea

We arrived just after midnight in Wellington. Two sleepy koalas were there to meet us -Lethe and Katrina. After some warm long hugs, we all piled into the car for the hour drive north to Waikanae, through Paekakariki and Paraparaumu, a quiet road at 1.30 in the morning. Finally at 2 a.m we pulled up in the drive of the Gaskin family home. Getting out of the car, I first saw the blackest sky filled with stars and then I heard the sound of the sea. What a moment! My soul is filled.

Sue

It's all in how you look at it......

There's the "Church of the Three Sticks" so called because of the tall skinny black, white and red crosses in the front lawn of the house down the road here in Waikanae - the guy who's done this has a bus parked there with words of heavenly exultation emblazoned across its sides. If you don't like what's on offer, go ahead and create your own church!
Then there's Flag Boy, further on up the road here, where the master of the house trots out a new flag every day and hoists it atop his hefty flagpole - a new one every day; one day he even flew the flag of the land of "Smiley Face" atop the pole! If you don't like living in the same place every day, what a great idea-just change the flag. Now I'm Brazillian and tomorrow who knows? Maybe I'll be Polish......
And then there's "Driftwood Castle" down the road from Lethe and Katie's. This guy has dragged driftwood that's been tossed from the ocean, dragged it all to his house and planted it like ragged teeth along the perimeter of his home. Some the shape of snakes, petrified and rammed into the soil, twisted and gnarled. Here and there are driftwood placards with mysterious phrases burnt and scratched on them. Maybe it's comforting - being protected by this weird wooden wall.

All this plus the warmth and laughter of the House of Gaskin - these ordinary points along the road made magical by the laughter of us all in the car as we drive past.

Ted

A Beautiful Night of Poetry in Motion

The Theatre of Spontaneity, which was held on Friday 26th of October was a beautiful, imaginative evening filled with surprise, love and some mighty fine directing by Phil Smalley. Phil's own poem penned spontaneously as a final stanza to our poetry and stories tells it all.


Psych-Ode-Drama as “Poetry in Motion”

The bubbling dance of
Young and old souls,
Greeting with feeling.

Fog flows away,
As I sigh in sadness
And yet in hope.

Blessed are
The brave adventurers
Who step into Freedom

Phil Smalley

Theatre of Spontaneity
Friday 26th October 2007

A Birthday in New Zealand

Katrina and Lethe Gaskin (on the left, above) with their brothers and sister, celebrated their Mother's 80th Birthday recently. Kia ora e hoa ataahua.

Moreno Psychodrama Society Christmas Party

We warmly invite you to the Summer Gathering and Christmas Celebration BBQ

at:

104 Simpson Street
East Melbourne

Sunday, 2nd of December at 12.30 p.m to 3.30 p.m

BYO drinks and a salad or sweet to share, meat provided.

Come in full voice as there will be some rollicking renditions of Old Christmas Carol favourites.

RSVP MorenoSociety@netspace.net.au

or call/text: Nikki 0418 134 749, Patricia 0413 016 694, Gillian 9521 9850 or Sue 0417 586 791

Theatre of Spontaneity

Words have beauty and power

They can express feeling

And inspire

Action

Come to an evening in which we will play with words, see how they combine to convey meaning, create wonder, touch our innermost selves

Through our dance with words, poems in voice and action
will emerge in an interplay of inspiration and insight

Where? 155 Langridge Street
Collingwood

With? Phil Smalley (psych-ode-dramatist)

When? Friday 26th October
7.15 for 7.30
$20 ($15 for MPS members)

Applications of Psychodrama in Couple Counselling

12 October from 9:30 a.m –12:30 p.m


Director: Sue Daniel

These experiential morning seminars present a framework using role theory, sociometry and psychodrama in the one-to-one milieu. The methods are used to evaluate progress in therapy, to make interventions and to bring about creative self-learning. There will be opportunity to bring forward aspects of actual situations and practice the methods.

Fee: $70.00 per session.
Venue: Psychodrama Institute of Melbourne, 155 Langridge St, Collingwood

TO RESERVE YOUR PLACE CALL 94163779

A Lovely Evening with Tabitha

Judith and Tabitha at Tabitha's art exhibition.