reflecting on 2025...

Chat GPT reflected on my meanderings in 2025. Love it! You spun gold from Temora’s bright ground— Each haiku a shimmer, profound. With canola and sky, Your year dared to try— Where art, word, and heart intertwined, unbound. P.S. NO! I did not copy from Chat GPT. It spun ideas for me only.

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 29 December 2025 at 09:20

morning reflection...

morning #reflection my open blind's wavy fringe in my first coffee #vss365 #haiku

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 27 November 2025 at 08:11

it has taken me till my Temora era...

Not till my Temora era

have I really found my tribe...

the spirit that knows me

the one that revels in creating the progress of the arts with me...

Temora has become a kind of crescendo in my life

where all that has gone before

the dark and the light

suddenly has a purpose

in the world that is now

 

wind rattled grasses...

wind rattled grasses may murmur sweet past stories of long gone lovers but the #susurrus I hear is a name I must forget #vss365 #tanka #poetry #blueskypoets

— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 18 June 2025 at 10:23

melancholic sky...

melancholic sky soft, grey gentle rain creates another chapter in visual beauty when the sun emerges #tanka

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— Gemma Wiseman (@gemma77.bsky.social) 3 December 2024 at 08:23

busy coastal street...

busy coastal street
crammed with many ideas
of many people#haiku

📷 2021 - October - A cluttered street image captured at Rosebud...almost a reality abstract with all the pieces of shapes and colours... pic.twitter.com/mDGUyOfV8O

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) October 16, 2024

National Tree Day 2024...

🌲🌲🌲🌲
there may be rain
there may be weeping sun
but even fragments of
autumn wintry trees
add colour to the moment#tanka

🌲🌲🌲🌲
National Tree Day 2024 - Sunday 28th July

📷2015 - late June - My Dromana verandah pic.twitter.com/GYrNqmVdAd

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) July 28, 2024

leaf uploaded to Redbubble...

TODAY: My Redbubble upload...
I have just uploaded my photo below to Redbubble...
It may be bought as cushion or postcard, cap, scarf or even a clock.
Check it out... https://t.co/elUuU92JeJ pic.twitter.com/umj2iaju2J

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) July 21, 2024

wintry reflections...

wintry reflections
while some yesterdays sleep
some sharpen the memory

📷 2015 - June - at Hastings, Mornington Peninsula pic.twitter.com/IPX6c1bWOQ

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) June 8, 2024

gala performance...

gala performance
rain, reflections,
sunlight and shadows
stage a rare
visual symphony#tanka

📷2014 My Dromana verandah pic.twitter.com/Z1lLhci5r7

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) May 19, 2024

a whisper of waves...

a whisper of waves
dazzling beauty of white boats
shimmers and re-shimmers#haiku

📷Autumn 2015 - Boat reflections at Hastings, Victoria pic.twitter.com/vn56sU9vMT

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) May 12, 2024

perception/reflection...

Perception/reflection can be a positive foundation for inner strength, inner resilience and a sense of vision.
It all can begin with childhood contexts... https://t.co/EsGtqjxTiy

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) May 12, 2024

sunny Sunday morning walk...

Enjoyed an early, sunny Sunday morning walk after rain...Older style homes seemed to glow with character. One home is very different. It's a bright-eyed green with a 'skeleton' relaxing in the front garden seat..
Heard some eerie chanting music...
May take a photo next time... pic.twitter.com/LFuosJsLdD

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) December 2, 2023

rainy Monday...

It's a rainy, still 7°C at 9am Monday...

After the long road trip yesterday, 

today's weather is a good reason to catch up on some blogging and reading...

Some wanders from last week have still not been blogged...

And I am still swimming in the euphoria of yesterday's long drive...

I want to hold that wonderful feeling a while longer...

(And try out Smooth Relax Sydney 78.5FM for a change)...

rainy day meanderings...

Restless night last night...It could be the rain on the tin roof...first heavy, endless rain I have heard here in Temora...But it could be my fears on the rise...the flurry of a wedding this weekend (my daughter's husband's son) + my daughter's house loaded with more people...I have never met my daughter's ageing father-in-law...He was the first to arrive from the NSW mid-coast yesterday...Later today, a grandson from Wollongong arrives with his partner...That means 8 people in total here...so far...Tomorrow, a campervan arrives with 2 more people...Thankfully, not long after the latter arrives, I am leaving for Cootamundra to stay 2 nights in an air bnb...My bed here is needed for more visitors...

Having spent 2 years living alone after tragedy and trauma + moving interstate + retirement beginning, I'm feeling very fragile, spun into some kind of culture shock...People + noisy chatter + to-ing and fro-ing feel like an invasion I can't escape...

I keep telling myself to be grateful that my daughter is giving me shelter, feeding me...I have a cosy room + TV + internet access...I have no regular utility bills for now...This arrangement will only last till about July when my daughter's new home is complete and I take over this rental...

This country town is so appealing...I do love it...But for now, my own personal circumstances need a little time to evolve and settle...

So here I am, spilling my soul...hoping that voicing my fears eases my pressures...

And still it rains...

gentle rain and reflection...

PASSING THOUGHT: It's raining...gentle rain...But that's OK...The planned walk to the nursery cancelled+just having a reflection day...
Can't believe that I have now been in Temora for a week already...Arrived late, very late last Tuesday...
I have seen so much in a short time... pic.twitter.com/QC3fervLIQ

— 🇺🇦🌻Gemma Wiseman-on Wiradjuri land (@AuraGem) April 27, 2022