⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION   Ed. No. 103 - OPEN HOUSE - COME HOME

WHAT HAVE YOU GOT TO SAY FOR YOURSELF? 

©️Arts Law Australia

OPEN HOUSE - COME HOME 

No matter where we live in the world at some point or another I’m guessing that we all dream of being somewhere “better”. But is the grass greener on the other side? Looking around this world the problems just come packaged in a different way on the other side.

Some while back I made a decision to move to New Zealand from here in Australia. 

New Zealand is a very beautiful place and so is Australia but it isn’t my intention to immigrate because one place is better than the other. I just feel that that is the next step in my life when my wonderful Mum(92) passes away.

I was saying today to her how much I will miss her when she’s gone.

And when I move to NZ I will also take with me many fond memories of Australia too.

But I know that my happiness has nothing to do with where I am living whether in Australia, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, India, Timbuktu or anywhere else. 

Sure there are places in the world that are very unsettled even dangerous. And how did it come to that? At its most basic isn’t it about a whole lot of unhappy people projecting their unhappiness onto someone else? (It's almost like an unwelcome contagion.)

Wrong choices along the journey perhaps?

Basically though I know that if I am unhappy then my unhappiness is something that has to be attended to in my own home in my own backyard. That is inside of me. 

If I were to be unhappy in Australia then it is just as likely I would be unhappy 

in New Zealand. 

I’m pointed towards NZ because I feel deeper inside that is where my life wants me to be. 

Maybe we’ve got to start listening to our deeper selves. That is YOO. 

And that is not a voice. That's a feeling.

The brave new world that is upon us now is a world where we are all going to need to learn to take more individual responsibility for ourselves. 

That is not necessarily bad. It can be a good thing.

For generations now America has been playing the role of the World’s “Police”. And we’ve gotten used to this status quo. American politicians have been debating about that role for a long time and at this time it looks as though they just want to look after themselves. And they need to. Is it unreasonable that they start to address more the problems they have in their own backyard? Not really. 

This sea change can be viewed as an opportunity for much of the rest of the world to celebrate a new direction. As part of all of our maturing and better understanding our place on this planet we are going to need to go on a long walk towards ourselves. 

That can be understood as an adventure or in any other way us humans perceive it to be. But anyway we might look at it our world is facing unprecedented change on multiple levels. We can embrace the change or rebuff it.

We could celebrate our life by choosing our own new direction.

There are many different ways this celebration can be addressed on an individual, family, corporate, group, government, city, state, national or global levels.

One suggested starting pointer is illustrated above.

#“Know what happens if you don’t take a risk? NOTHIN' ”…NO...

... What happens is someone else makes the decisions for YOU. 

 - Neville ☺︎

# Quote from the Gillian Armstrong Australian Feature Film "STARSTRUCK" (1982)

To see more of this artist’s work go to:- NevilleWilliamsArt

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NEXT TIME

*"CLIMB EV'RY MOUNTAIN". . .

and you'll kill yourself.

*Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II from "The Sound of Music" (1959)

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Celebrate life!

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What is your vision for YOO?

👋 Celebrate yoo! 

 

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⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION   Ed. No. 102 - RAINBOW BRIDGE ON A SAFE HARBOUR

SOMETHING WORTH REPEATING

A Vision of our own making

PIC: Kirribilli, Sydney Harbour

A Safe Harbour on the World Stage. 

Photography by - Evie Pikler -

It is worth repeating here my blog entry from 11 June 2025

LOVE YOO - THE VALUE OF US

It could all be so much better.

But looking around at the ever increasing confusion it seems to be that we’re still not ready to take on the shared effort required for vision. Would we ever be? Neither do we accept the “sugar coating” of healing medicine such as a *World Expo centred on Sydney as being worthy of time, focus and expenditure.

We live too muchie in fear and that is why we respond without hardly a blink to the calls for ridiculously increased Defence spending. We're not talking millions here we're talking billions. That's making some people very rich...at what ultimate cost to us all?

We have it all arse up. 

Whatever it is we focus on reaps its own response.

Focus on fear and that’s what we’ll get. Focus on peace/creativity initiatives and so it follows. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t spend money on Defence. We need to protect ourselves from the ever present unscrupulous vagaries of this world but some balance is required. 

Any threat too can be closer to home than we might think. 

A real problem is that we’re becoming scared of our own shadow.

We are a strange lot us human beings?

I’ve heard it said that “about the only thing that human beings do well is to enjoy ourselves”. We’re just not giving ourselves the real opportunity of that happening presently.

It's always the time to picture and walk towards our own rainbow on the horizon. 

That may sound guileless. 

Perhaps though if we let go of the substantial tonnage of our cemented cerebral baggage and had more of a children's view of the world we may all well be happier!

RAINBOW by Jessica

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To those who would say we have too many crises to deal with already I can only respond with a question. What is your plan to get yourself out of the hole that we are digging for ourselves? That may be an insensitive comment but sometimes directness is necessary to cut through all the noise.

The first step in solving any problem is to face up to the fact that there is a problem. 

That problem is us. In more than some cases we don’t even remember how to speak or listen with clarity. Too much blather. Our pride and arrogance needs to be given walking orders. 

Our disconnection from ourselves needs to be plugged back in. 

Do we even know who we are anymore?

If we have to take our medicine rather than taking it cold and bitter something sweet helps the healing along. Hey, Mary Poppins knew what she was talking about with her "spoonful of sugar". 

Be kind to YOO for starters.

Who’s running your Show?  - Neville ☺︎

* A World Expo is only an example...

It could be perhaps an amalgamation of the best of what we are. 

It might be a combination of a sporting World Cup, A mini Olympics, an Asia/Pacific version 

of the Eurovision Song Contest, and a cultural expo.  

Or even something else like a "World Summit on Peace & Self Discovery" 

with our own young peoples led United Nations? 

In essence though it should be about the discovery and celebration of the value of us. 

Something that could light the child in us all.

Mmmm? What about a Concert for a New World Vision!

Run with it Sydney or some other World City with its lights turned on will take up the challenge.

Do it properly. Make it mean something worthwhile rather than being a showcase for desperately needy egos.

It is truth to reflect that you can do no service to the greater good without a full heart. 

And sadly the world seems so empty. We have to sort out ourselves first.

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NEXT TIME

OPEN HOUSE

come home

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Celebrate life!

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What is your vision for YOO?

👋 Celebrate yoo! 

 

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⚪️🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣⚫️ NEW DIRECTION   Ed. No. 101 - REAL LEADERS OF THE FREE WORLD

DO WE WANT A FAIR WORLD 

OR NO WORLD AT ALL?

Sad Pierrot from the artwork 

"OUR FUTURE: STOP, LOOK & LEAP" (under wraps)

He has reason to be sad.

Artist: Neville Williams ©️Arts Law Australia

SAD BUT BEAUTIFUL

Human ignorance is a very profound thing. 

And there is so much of it in our world.

And when things get tough, again brought about by the sum of our own collective individual ignorances, 

the ignorance becomes even louder.

I reference here the example of the six times re-elected 'community interest anchored' 

City of Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore. I could though be referring to any 'real' leader.

A short while back I received the Lord Mayor's regular circular talking on the subject of the City Council having allowed businesses to utilise the footpaths outside their premises for more planters and greenery. Apparently there are those businesses who are overstepping the mark making it difficult for pedestrians to walk on the footpath without obstruction. 

So the Lord Mayor has been receiving complaints from the public over these obstructions.

Enough of an issue to warrant her addressing the subject community wide. It seems Leaders are damned if they do and damned if they don't. 

Us humans don't seem to know what balance is. 

But we certainly know what myopic self interest is.

Hot on the heels of this the populist right wing Sydney Daily Telegraph pages exploded with disagreement over the City of Sydney Council's decision with the use of gas and its impacts on quality of air issues. I'm not going to enter the debate about the pros and cons. 

My focus is on those who will not bend to anything other than what is right for them.

There's plenty of that going on and in the face of everything we have been warned about with our climate not even one reform can be introduced without ignorant self serving interests screaming the house down. 

Human beings will baulk at even the most basic concessions and/or misuse privilege for their own benefit. Do we have a death wish or is it just plain old self ignorance - the shadow? 

And nothing but nothing is going to change those peoples views.

As a tour guide at the Sydney Opera House I talked for decades about what the Architect 

Jørn Utzon had to go through during the building of the icon. I distinctly remember as a child an Aunt echoing an attitude about the building while under construction that was shared by the greater whole nationwide. "What do we need an opera house for anyway?" 

That Building ultimately put this Country on the world map and gave us a broader and deeper appreciation of our creative selves. 

What we put Utzon through with our own collective ignorance could not be adequately expressed here. Ignorance again rearing its ugly head.

More recently the current US administration has been encouraging democratic countries under its influence to increase their defence spending. I heard a figure here in Australia from 2.5% of GDP increasing to 5% of GDP.  A whopping increase of multi billions of dollars and yet our health and education sectors people are screaming out for more funding. Ignorance.

Hardly a whimper of complaint about the proposed increase in Defence spending.

You want to know why?

Because we are living in fear.

Looking at humans past behaviours if we equip ourselves with more armaments and the paraphernalia of war we will use them. IGNORANCE.

I just want to get on a soap box and shout that if we are going to increase "Defence" spending then the 2.5% increase should be defensively and consciously spent on peace building initiatives. Not waving a sabre of escalation but focussing on prevention rather than cure. 

I'm talking about projects that connect us more with ourselves, each other and to our larger world environment. Projects that educate us on our own self worth and the value of our own humanity. Projects that remove our own self ignorance.

People don't take seriously my proposal for a WORLD EXPO/FAIR HOSTED HERE IN SYDNEY because they cannot see the value in it. Our values are skewed with IGNORANCE. We have to change the way we see and value things. If you focus on something it becomes the reality.

Focus on your shadow and your shadow becomes YOU. 

And you might wonder why Pierrot a centrepiece figure from my major 2022 artwork titled... 

'OUR FUTURE: STOP, LOOK & LEAP' is sad. He's looking through a world full of stupid IGNORANCE and is wanting to discover something more beautiful.

So what is beautiful amongst all of the sadness?

... That there are people like Clover Moore and Jørn Utzon and I could go on to cite more human beings on the home front such as Jim Chalmers, Bill Shorten, Chris Minns, Allegra Spender, Alex Greenwich and plenty of others across the spectrum who rise above the ignorance. They are those who have put themselves out there in the rabid face of all the ignorant and actually do creative things in our World to make it a less ignorant place to BE. 

Then on the world stage we have Volodymyr Zelenskyy showing himself to be a real leader of the free world. Just amazing. 

How much courage does that man have?

All those mentioned previously are Celebrating life.

Their values and priorities are valorous.

They do what they do because they understand the value and importance 

firstly of themselves.  - Neville ☺︎

PIERROT

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SOMETHING WORTH REPEATING

A Vision of our own making.

Celebrate life!

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What is your vision for YOO?

👋 Celebrate yoo! 

 

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