Peace Aboriginal Nature Diversity Youth

30/03/2025

I make moral choices.

I don’t walk into a situation and act blindly. I observe then make choices. Often very quick choices.

Why?

Survival.

It’s a learned pattern. This ability to make quick moral decisions, to assess what’s going on then choosing to act in a particular way.

It is learned behaviour and being in unsafe environments teaches a person how to learn to survive.

I pray I make good moral choices and survive.

11/10/2022

[Psalm 118: 29] O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures for ever.

When I think of God I think of good.

When I think of ‘aboriginal’ I think of provenance, the provenance of people, places and things. In other words, the beginning or starting point, the earliest known history.

You see, Aboriginal people - in general, not only Australian Aboriginals - give so much to the progress of place. Not to be too generalistic and as such lose its meaning, I want to stress, the kind of aboriginal spoken of here relates to my interest in remembering everything I know, everything defining my existence, came here through someone else, from somewhere else, from a different time.

I think of it this way: when I make a cup of tea, mend a hole in a pair of jeans, make pikelets or write my aboriginality reminds me of my ancestors’ progress. My ancestors and the ancestors of those around me gave me the opportunity to do as I do now. I honour their memory and remember who I am. I am the fruit of their progress.

I believe we must all remember our Aboriginal beginnings, that is to say, the provenance of the people, places and things we know and love. Once upon a time things were not as they are now. I give thanks to the Lord for my family, for my ancestors, for their steadfast beginnings and their progressive ways that I have come to know and love in this good place.

PANDY

07/10/2022

In the Gospel of John @14:27 (ESV) Jesus says, “Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.”

To define peace is to speak of our Father, God in heaven.
God is peace?
No, not really.
Rather, peace is God (and this is not my poor attempt at a palindrome).

That is to say, before I knew God, I defined peace by describing it as the opposite of trouble or war. By taking this approach the implication is that there is necessary to the definition of peace a knowledge of trouble and war. I am no longer prepared to entertain in my mind something as unnecessary as knowledge of trouble or war to gain understanding of peace.

No. I now know better.

I mean, it is far better and far more critical to the definition of peace to gain understanding of Jesus Christ. General contemplation of Jesus Christ (my belief in who He is, what He has done, is doing and will do) appends the true meaning.

Let me gently reiterate, peace is a gift, it is a gift from God, our Heavenly Father, given to us, by the power of His Holy Spirit, through faith in our Lord, Jesus Christ.

That, my friend, is peace.

PANDY

06/10/2022

It is something we tend to forget: we remember we are redeemed,
we tend to forget we are blessed, that includes the cost to Him who blessed us [Matthew 5:3-12].

01/10/2022

From where I stand, this in-house publication uses the language and addresses the principles of sustainable practice for the redesign and upgrade of businesses moving forward in a sensible way…in other words: it looks good and sounds good but will it do any good? 🙂

27/09/2022

I’m sure this picture does it no justice, but I am glad for today. I have just finished a critical assessment and returned my library books. Only to walk along the lake to the carillon bell tune of ‘It’s a Wonderful World’ by Louis Armstrong and that’s how I feel. After ten days of intellectual breakdown of Matthew’s Gospel to produce an essay on ‘Matthew’s use of Mark’. I am finally free for a week to enjoy the beginning of Spring. Hallelujah 🙂 praise the Lord ❤️

23/05/2022

Deconstruction had a big influence upon fashion in the late 1980s and well into the following century.

I still enjoy the visual aesthetic.

I enjoy seeing the inside machinations of what is normally hidden methods of construction on the outside. I enjoy using those same machinations of construction to invoke a story.

The humble straight stitch is a method of construction used to make clothing. Often used for mending and decoration but going by a different name. The deconstruction of the humble straight stitch follows a path of evolution, or perhaps devolution over time. These days, I see no overarching direction for its influence upon the fashion horizon; used in whatever way a designer or maker desires, the straight stitch collects and gathers, tightens and reveals. A reflection of the times we live in right now, has long been the role of fashion, through the technical construction and style machination of clothing.

19/05/2022

For my business I use an acronym: PANDY®️. It is also my nickname and my registered trademark.

I have a long history in design and education. I hope to put my knowledge to good use.

If you believe I can be of any assistance to you then book an appointment. We can have a talk. Then, if it all works out we can do business together.

All I ask is that we work through the process one baby step at a time.

Take care.

28/06/2021

Kyrie eleison.
Lord have mercy on me.
Turaga moni yalololoma vei au.

Christie eleison.
Christ have mercy on me.
Turaga moni yalololoma vei au.

Kyrie eleison.
Lord have mercy on me.
Turaga moni yalololoma vei au.

16/12/2020

Merry Christmas 🎉💙 😂
Christ is born! Hallelujah!😆

It’s been called ‘the most wonderful time of the year’✨, and after the loss and heartache of 2020, perhaps we all need it more than ever. It’s with that in m...