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Peggy’s Salon

18 June 2009 4:38 pm   Living in the bush has its limitations, to be certain. We have most things in my village of 350, largely due to our hectic tourist trade: a pharmacy, a hospital, doctors, a post office, a hardware store, a garage, great organic food, fine coffee and an excellent hairdresser.  … Continue reading Peggy’s Salon

Saying Goodbye to a Partner: A Souvenir

29 June 2009 6:06 pm This week, when the storms came and the rats and python got into the shed, I had to do some quick work to rescue my scrapbooks. I was unprepared for the emotional impact. But the urgent task became a meditation and yielded a great blessing. My father’s American Green Card… Continue reading Saying Goodbye to a Partner: A Souvenir

Chocolate Chip Cookies: A Migrant’s Tale

24 July 2009 at 2:26 pm This is a story about chocolate chip cookies: a migrant’s tale.   I was visiting a city friend recently.   We have no oven in our shed in the bush, so the sight of someone preparing to bake was deeply satisfying.   “What are you baking?” I asked Bill,… Continue reading Chocolate Chip Cookies: A Migrant’s Tale

Trouble in Paradise: Dual Occupancy at Jarlanbah

March 15, 2010 – 9:59 pm   Trouble in Paradise   Tomorrow evening my neighbours are meeting to decide whether or not to try to ban dual occupancy (commonly called accessory dwelling units: https://www.mass.gov/envir/smart_growth_toolkit/pages/mod-adu.html ) in this eco-village of 43 dwellings on 22 hectares.   The whole process has me mightily confused.   Imagine the… Continue reading Trouble in Paradise: Dual Occupancy at Jarlanbah

Kevin Taylor: Tributes and Funeral

A great, humble and exceptionally beautiful man has died.   On Sunday morning, 7th August, Kevin Taylor, Principal of Taylor Cullity Lethlean, Landscape Architects, Designers and community consultation specialists, Adelaide and Melbourne, was killed instantly in a vehicle crash in Darwin.   He was 57.   His passing is mourned by many, many friends all… Continue reading Kevin Taylor: Tributes and Funeral

Tribute to Kevin Taylor from David Yencken

Kevin Taylor     Kevin Taylor came to work for Merchant Builders (a housing company that  Johnny Ridge and I had started) when he was a young man.   It was his first job.   He came with a strong personal recommendation from Wendy Sarkissian (then lecturing in Adelaide) who had taught him.   She… Continue reading Tribute to Kevin Taylor from David Yencken

Funeral for Ross Kevin Taylor

It was standing room only in Adelaide Town Hall on Thursday morning August 18th when over 1100 people packed the historic concert hall to pay tribute to beloved landscape architect, Kevin Ross Taylor.                         The grand Victorian architecture and soaring ceilings of the most… Continue reading Funeral for Ross Kevin Taylor

Officeworks and Reflex Paper: “I have to pay my mortgage and feed my dogs”

September 12, 2011 – 5:34 pm   Officeworks Lismore: a Bulletin     On Saturday I drove 72 kms. round-trip to my local Officeworks store in Lismore, NSW in the vain hope that they might have stopped stocking Reflex paper. I signed the pledge and the petition (with 11,000 others!) months ago and so far… Continue reading Officeworks and Reflex Paper: “I have to pay my mortgage and feed my dogs”

“Yale Wife” No More

In February of this year, I flew to Boston to teach for a month, mainly in the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD). Teaching in the GSD was a lot more intensive than Australian postgraduate planning education; the students were also an international and multicultural bunch. The privileged Harvard student body I had witnessed in… Continue reading “Yale Wife” No More

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