Flotillas of Hope: History and Impact Flotillas of Hope was an Australian maritime protest against the Howard government’s offshore detention of asylum seekers on Nauru under the Pacific Solution. The action began with a call for people to sail to Nauru, transforming opposition to offshore detention into a physical voyage across the Pacific. The flotilla consisted of two vessels, Eureka…

For decades the words sat quietly in notebooks, folders and drawers. I originally wrote the lyrics with pen on paper — remember those days? I never imagined they would one day return with actual voices. Recently I discovered Suno, where I uploaded the old lyrics and described the atmosphere I imagined. Then something almost magical happened. The handwritten words came back carrying music, mood and emotion.

Over the last few days I've been in the haze and fog of Covid but funnily enough my mind is travelling back over many years. I get flashes of what happened, the people, the incidents out of the blue. Is covid digging around in my deep memory? Anyway here's one memory that has arisen. About forty years ago I found myself sitting in excellent seats at a Bob Dylan concert at Sydney's Capitol Theatre.

Check out my YouTube Channel >> Journeys & Star Gazing - YouTube where I have shared my Spiral Lyrics For decades the words, the lyrics, sat quietly in notebooks, folders and drawers. I never imagined they would one day return with actual voices. Recently I discovered Suno, where I uploaded the old lyrics and described the atmosphere I imagined. Then something almost magical happened.

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“We call things into being long before we realise what we have invited.” Some people will say I’m strange for noticing this — but lately I’ve been unsettled by how many walk the streets carrying death and darkness on their skin. Skulls grinning from shoulders. Demons curled along arms. Faces twisted in torment inked into chests and backs. They remind me of some very bad heavy acid trips I had when I freaked out way back in the early 1970's.

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