I’m a paracademic of a neologising faux-Scot who is at yet another fork in the road. I’m based in Narrm (Melbourne) but spend lots of time on Wadawurrung country (the saltwater part). For which I am deeply grateful.

So. Elderflowering. Continued?

With this Substackery I’m picking up a throughline I refined in my PhD about being a creative practitioner in an ageing body. The elderflowering part covers it – especially as it includes variations such as elderflailing and elderflaunting.

As I grapple again with big life changes I want to understand more about how my practice inflects my changing identity, and vice verse.

So…. I love a vow and I love a schedule and I once wrote and published a blog post every day for a year. I’ve found such sites be great spaces to play around with words and not be too precious about them, and I’ve also found them good for maintaining creative muscle. I’ll also be upfront and say that I plan to write about the experience I am about to have (and already having) as co-author (with David Carlin) of a soon to be launched memoir. This is new territory for me. I hope it will be fun to share something of a “behind the scenes” with others while also performing, with as much meaningful irreverence as I can muster, my continuing elderflowering in public places.

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