My father used to call Australia the “Last Frontier” — like Alaska. He wanted to go. My mother had me save her $13K in a safe bank account so she could one day go to Australia — we buried her with it.
I’ve always held Australia high in my mind and used to be one of the few places I’d consider getting on an airplane to visit — along with Ireland and maybe Tuscany in Italy.
It’s no longer on my list despite the gorgeous photos I’ve seen from fellow bloggers–an ineffable beauty that simply takes your breath away.
But if reports are accurate and what is happening there in the last five years but especially this virus hoopla is true, it’s no place I’d ever go — “freedom passport?”
The news reports are frightening –worse than the UK and other places–worse than here–though these people are making it pretty crazy. We have governors and legislatures standing up to them.
I love words so I write them. I’ve been doing that since I was old enough to read. I am a published literary writer and I was an adjunct English professor at Northern Michigan University for many years. I write and live and love off the grid on 35 acres and a trout stream in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with my son, Joshua, who has Down Syndrome, and with an English Shepherd dog named Maggie, and with my husband when he can make it here which isn’t often. This blog started out being about my work, and it will continue to be. ( I’m working on a novel about premonitions and dreams.) But this blog is also about living off the grid and about my experimentation with diet—most recently the Carnivore Diet. I started on the Ketogenic diet, but have moved into Carnivore. How long, I don’t know. But I’ve become interest in the effects of diet on not just my health, but on creativity. And I’m interested in the effects of the diet on my dreams.
Ah, dreams... The day before my son was born, my mother “dreamed” or was told my son would have Down Syndrome, something she told my brother ahead of time. I’ve never known what to make of that. So I’m interested in prophetic dreams, lucid dreaming, creativity and dreams, night terrors. Who isn't interested in that? I’m interested in Freud (more Jung) and Einstein’s theories of time and how their ideas inform my dreams. I’m interested in mining a deeper relationship with a dream world not confined to daytime experiences, and how the night might inform a more fully imagined daytime “reality.” And vice-versa. Which is the dream?? I’m exploring dreams of all sorts. Come explore with me…
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2 thoughts on “Carnivore Dreams- Last Frontier?”
I have always seen Australia as a better version of the UK; more conservative and a bit more Christian. A friend of mine lived there for a decade and loved the country, so this latest brown shirt crackdown on its citizens is scary. Something foul is afoot.
L.E.K. 
I have always seen Australia as a better version of the UK; more conservative and a bit more Christian. A friend of mine lived there for a decade and loved the country, so this latest brown shirt crackdown on its citizens is scary. Something foul is afoot.
I know. I’ve been very upset by it. A place I always associated with wildness and freedom.