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Jumpin’ Jack Flash…

January 19, 2019by Robyn Haynes 26 Comments

… it’s 2019 already! Happy new year to you all! So, what news from my tiny courtyard garden? Well, what about this tiny creature busily preparing dinner on the underleaf […]

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2019, Perspective, Reflection, Society, Spiders

Does There Have to be Blood?

June 29, 2018by Robyn Haynes 27 Comments

  “But there’s no blood,” my grandson protested when I despaired about the violence in the video game, Fortnite: Battle Royale. I’m sure there’s not a person on the planet […]

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Culture, Perspective, Society

Grounded

February 26, 2017by Robyn Haynes 26 Comments

My green-thumbed buddy dropped by with a gift the other day – a ground orchid! The Spathoglottis or ground orchid, is called a terrestrial orchid because unlike epiphitic varieties, it grows in […]

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Change, Orchids, Perspective, Society

The Beauty in ‘Away’

February 18, 2017by Robyn Haynes 29 Comments

  Have you ever noticed how being ‘away’ allows contemplative space for contrasts and comparisons? Familiar things look different from afar. Such was the case when I took a five […]

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Beauty, Connectedness, Family, Other-People's-Gardens, Perspective, Society, Stories, The Idea of Home

The Social Garden

September 10, 2016by Robyn Haynes 26 Comments

  Useful, industrious, productive, communicative, collaborative, defensive, but most of all social. There were many words that hovered in my head, bee-like, after the research for last week’s post on […]

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Society, Web of Life

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Robyn Haynes

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Robyn enthusiastically pursues a green and writerly life on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia, where her background as a doctor of social anthropology equips her with an interesting slant on the human condition. She spends much time indulging a passion for her garden where she ponders life and attempts to stave off existential angst. In her more reflective moments she makes wry observations on courtyard gardening and its parallels with life.

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