The photos say it all…Proud young Black Australians dancing in the Spirit of New Dreams, celebrating the Old Ways…as the healing and restoration unfolds…..
Family, song , dance, connection, Culture and open spaces without walls….
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Spirit Festival on Kaurna country (Adelaide) 2008
Posted by carolom on December 14, 2008
Posted in Aboriginal, Adelaide, Community, Dreaming, Kaurna, Peace, Spirit Festival 2008, Spirituality, Unity | 3 Comments »
The Nunga TV – Smart Mob – The Car that makes people smile….
Posted by carolom on December 7, 2008
Sometimes when we are out and about I forget that we are driving in the NungaTV car- so beautifully painted by Mark Blackman and the Warriappendi students. People often smile and some feel compelled to wave…such is the Spirit of connection and appreciation that Aboriginal Art invokes. Although if I have forgotten about the outside of the car, it does feel as if people are just waving and smiling because they are having a good day!…….(;-)
With the NungaTV car, it’s as if people are seeing a mobile dot-painting for the first time.
And they are of course!……..
Even grown men, when they stand near the NungaTV car, just want to play!….
The EarthSong Brothers………
Great to see Tony again after nearly 15 years and to be able to share in the EarthSong vision together…….
Posted in Adelaide, Community, Dreaming, Fun, NungaTV, Smart Mob, Transformation | 2 Comments »
Create New Dreams…Seeding the Future Vision
Posted by carolom on November 24, 2008
We had a wonderful weekend camp…thanks to the gorgeous Goddesses who came from two Communities up north to join us in the Riverland.
Along with the Mandala art and making clay beads, we work-shopped the Vision for the Womens groups…then painted terra cotta pots and planted the Sunflower seeds that will grow along with the new changes..
Thankyou to the Women for allowing us to photograph the art work and capture the many wonderful moments where Nanas and great grandchildren, Community leaders and members sat and enjoyed the creative processes together….what better way to spend a weekend in the Riverland sun?
Deanna Nungala and I feel very privileged to have been invited to host the Celeberating our Community camp and look forward to our Miminis Nopin Inc ventures in 2009 when we can return the gifting by visiting the Women and seeing how the Sunflowers have grown….
Miminis Nopin – Women on the Move…
We think we have found art based activities that everyone- young and old -can enjoy together…and sme1954 …you may find new pathways open when you get creative too!
Deanna and I wearing the clay necklaces we made during the Apology week, to honor the Mothers whose children were stolen from them. Nungala is a Stolen Generation survivor and a Warrior Woman of the heart in the truest sense….
Our Vision Workshopping Board….
Painting the clay beads they have rolled earlier in the day is wonderful for concentration for the little kids and fun~creativity for all ages…
Little sister can create and paint her own beads too!
This pot-painter will seed some fantastic changes for her Community I am sure…
The gorgeous goddess with the smile that lights up rooms and hearts…
Our Chef extraordinaire took time out from her delicious food-making to paint a pot of her own…
Lady birds for good luck turned up on the top of this artists work….
…as you can see….
Mother and Daughter creating together……they have a vegie garden at home and the new Sunflowers might fill that garden one day! One single seed births the seeds of many new flowers over one single season…
…seeding the Vision is a journey of process, attention, watering and ….patience….
…all pots are sealed with varnish and the upper torso lean, with head titled upward is a spraying skill learnt after accidentally inhaling a nostril full of varnish dust on the first ever pot. Interesting shadow cast on the ground there….
Posted in Art, Australia, Beauty, Change, Community, Creativity, Dreaming, Elders, Fun, Grandmothers, Imagination, Joy, Magic, Ngarrindjeri, Prosperity, Sisterhood, Social Artistry, Warrior Women, Women | 2 Comments »
Ingalalla Falls south of Adelaide- A beautiful place on a wet and windy day…
Posted by carolom on July 21, 2008
My buddy Deanna and I were both a bit tired, a bit low on joi-de-vivre… We work in human services / personal development and we know that this kind of tired and hearing sadness all the time needs very specific treatment!
It requires packing the picnic basket, spending hours amongst Nature with a cup of tea in china mugs, accompanied by a piece of apple-crumble cheesecake from the Yankalilla bakery…. taking time out of the city away from the mobile phones waves and relentless traffic….noise traffic, mobile phone traffic, people traffic and the news, news, news…
Nothing else will remedy what only Nature offers the weary 21st Century gals!….(;-)
Here is where we went…and if you look really closely you can see the Spirits of Nature all around…
Ingalalla Falls…nestled in between hilly country that is green and clean and lush….
Posted in Beauty, Community, Dreaming, Friendships, Gratitude, Healing, Imagination, Laughter, Mystical, Nature, Ngarrindjeri, Sisterhood, Women | 4 Comments »
NAIDOC 2008 – Adelaide
Posted by carolom on July 16, 2008
Here are three gorgeous gals who caught up with one another during the NAIDOC march and Family day on the banks of the River Torrens.
Katrina Power, Pilwauk White and Jo Rigney…
Posted in Aboriginal, Adelaide, Art, Change, Community, Creativity, Dreaming, Family, Friendships, Stolen Generation, Warrior Women, Women | 1 Comment »
The heART of the Apology …
Posted by carolom on July 5, 2008
We are having the launch of the heART of the Apology exhibition on Wednesday.
There were 11 posters created during the Apology at Elder Park here in Adelaide in the ‘heART’ Space that we established as a way to give ordinary Australians, of all colour, culture and creed a place to express their thoughts and feelings in a way that was divorced from the political footballing and rhetoric that was flooding the media in the months….and years … leading up to the Apology.
There was sadness and there were years and there was joy…
My buddy Katrina has worked for justice for many years and like so many other Aboriginal Women. her courage and resilience in the face of systemic racism have been out standing.
Posted in Aboriginal, Adelaide, Australia, Dreaming, Forgiveness, Friendships, Healing, Justice, Kaurna, Lifes Stories, Reconciliation, Relationships, Sorry Day Feb 2008, Stolen Generation, Stories, Transformation, Trauma, Unity | Leave a Comment »
The Winter of content…
Posted by carolom on June 22, 2008
It was raining yesterday afternoon and after the months of drought and over 10 days where the temperature reached 100oF a few months ago, the winter rains and green-sheen everywhere are very welcome in this desert state.
I was sitting under the back verandah with the two semi-homeless garden cats, Gabrielle- [Gabi] and her daughter Shima. You can see how gorgeous they are:
The garden was humming with rain drops and birds and leaves blowing down from the Cedar Trees
late autumn fall:
…and I remembered back to when I first moved in here and all I could see was a barren, dry patch of soil…
…..and how this piece of Mother Earths blank canvas taught me more about process, time, holding a vision, weeding and seeding, than I could ever have imagined when I first moved here during a trials-and-tribulations winter of discontent….
In our ‘outcomes’ driven, western society I learnt that the answers we are seeking about sustainable change and growth are to be found in Mother Nature’s process of Time, cycles and seasons….
……and how wonderful it is to create a room with out walls and a fireplace whose only chimney is the sky….
Adelaide in South Australia is traditionally named ‘Tandanya’ , home of the Red Kangaroo.
Living and growing and learning and sharing on traditional Aboriginal Land, Kaurna Country has its own special strand of environmental magic and possibility….As my good buddy Nungala reminds me:
“It can happen so much better and so much faster if you acknowledge the Ancestors and remember the Dreaming”…..
Posted in Animals, Anthropomorphism, Cats, Change, Creativity, Dreaming, Garden, Gratitude, Humor, Imagination, Journeys, Kaurna, Lifes Stories, Love, Magic, Nature, Oneness, Peace, Power of Focus, Prosperity, Relationships, Social Artistry, Spirituality, Stories, Wealth, Wisdom | 1 Comment »
Sorry Day- This is what Katrina Power and Carol Omer felt on the day…
Posted by carolom on February 14, 2008
A picture paints a thousand words and we all shared many tears and smiles and hugs on this historical, momentus day. 
Posted in Aboriginal, Australia, Change, Community, Dreaming, Family, Forgiveness, Healing, Humor, Kaurna, Ngarrindjeri, Oneness, Reconciliation, Sisterhood, Social Artistry, Sorry, Sorry Day Feb 2008, Spirituality, Stories, Transformation, Unity, Wisdom | Leave a Comment »
Peace, Prosperity, Passion and Power~of~Love for 2008
Posted by carolom on December 25, 2007
May all your Dreams Come True…Christmas 2007
Mum and Dad…50 years married and still laughing and playing together…
Our beautiful twins…my Niece and Nephew..Ben and Louise…born in 1989 bringing infinite Love into our Family…
Louise and Aunty Carol
Ben and Aunty Carol
My lovely sister Chris and her gorgeous partner Greg..
Ben and Grandma fought over the Kris Kringle Bubble Maker…Ben overpowered Grandma with his youthful zest but Grandma put up a good fight!
And my gorgeous old, beautiful cat Yamatji (Yami) found a piece of discarded wrapping paper and settled down for a looong nap -as cats do! 15 years old, blind in one eye, Yami moved from the gold-wrapping long enough to munch on prawn scraps and ham-skin before returning to his crinkly-gold cushion where he remains as we speak!
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