by Rosie Martin | Sep 26, 2021 | Blog, Social Justice, Speech Pathology
There has never been a time in Australia’s history at which everybody could read and write. Think about it. Before the 20th Century wars, universal education was haphazard. It was the domain primarily of the privileged. Things continued that way during the 1940s and...
by Rosie Martin | Sep 25, 2021 | Blog
When I was a kid growing up on the farm, my mum and dad regularly made a concoction that they called liquid manure. The first time I read Roald Dahl’s fabulous ‘George’s Marvelous Medicine’ to my kids, it made me think of the liquid manure – except that mum and dad’s...
by Rosie Martin | Aug 30, 2021 | Blog, Speech Pathology
Michael Leunig is a national treasure. A few strokes of his uniquely wielded brush, some spare and scruffy words… and suddenly a gentle ‘hey presto’ appears out of nowhere and opens us to depths of our yearning and heights of our hope. I was recently struck with...
by Rosie Martin | Aug 25, 2021 | Blog, Events, Social Justice
Grace and I are presenting a cycle of powerful, seasonal, leadership retreats focused on the courage to create change. In late August we focused on spring, using metaphors that explored how that which is nascent within us, can be supported to burst forth. On the 3rd,...
by Rosie Martin | Aug 15, 2021 | Blog
A pottering kind of day My son and I were companionably pottering with a bit of work on our laptops, sitting on couches in the sun in our front room on a Sunday afternoon. My four-year-old grandson was there with his little sister. They were also pottering happily....
by Rosie Martin | Aug 7, 2021 | Blog
When I was a kid growing up in Woomera, my dad filled his weekends building a wooden boat. Ros-Lyn, he named her. Half of my name, half of my sister’s. I watched him on and off, this man in the desert building a boat. I didn’t think too much about what...
