Hmmmmmmmm…
Look!… flying, up there, in the sky….is it a pig, or a pie?
Pelican Yoga wishes you all a happy new year, regardless!
The pictured Western Grey kangaroo’s home turf is in Deep Creek Conservation Park, at the bottom of South Australia’s Fleurieu Peninsula.
The location is the closest any mainlander ‘roo can get to Kangaroo Island.
(photo copyright Doug Spencer, taken at 4.31 pm on 20 June 2023. Coming soon to Pelican Yoga: a deal more about the wonders of winter in Deep Creek C.P)
A perhaps-useful New Year Resolution:
try to retain an open mind, a sense of optimism and a warm heat.., but remember that they are all best-tempered with healthy scepticism and keen attention to evidence.
In any event, I pray that our “alternative prime minister” is mistaken in his belief that “enough” Australians will ape his resolution/s:
Musical bonus
Da Day Dawn is an ancient, very spare Shetland tune.
The western shores of Shetland’s islands face the Atlantic, whilst the North Sea laps its eastern side.
It is part of Scotland, but Shetland’s cultural connection to Norway is also strong; in straight-line distance, Shetlanders dwell a deal closer to Oslo than to Edinburgh.
In this air, that “Norse connection” is easy to hear.
It is widely believed that Da Day Dawn was originally played by Shetland’s fiddlers on one day only – Yule Day – to mark the winter solstice, on the 21st or 22nd of December.
This air is still very much associated with “the turning of the year”, although nowadays the relevant “special days” also include Christmas and New Year’s Days.
Scottish harpists Corrina Hewat and Mary Macmaster played their lovely version of Da Day Dawn “out of season” in May 2016,
(Mary is on the screen’s left/logo side)