Master Joel Scott is sitting at the wooden table, getting to know The Red Room – file exploring, website cruising, reading and listening to the past five years of our existence! There is much to learn and much to share for him and for me. (Blessed newness and change!) Early today, Joel and I discussed the definition of a ‘purple patch’ then looked at Emu eggs inscribed with text so, we’re off to a grand start. There is a lot to prepare for in these coming months: A focus on raising funds for 2010 which, unfortunately, we have not yet succeeded in doing for all our projects. The year is both young and old and as I scan the Closing dates for various grants I find myself drifting to a book of poems ‘Bughouse Meat’, by Ben Frater, his lines: … ‘In a lock of earth/we plant parrots/amongst the boneseed’…
February 5th, 2010
