Webmaster, Publisher, Soul Food Cafe - eLearning Consultant
Heather Blakey, an artistic midwife, is the webmaster of the Soul Food Cafe. Heather, who is passionate about education, is at the forefront of Education in Victoria, delivering the concept of team blogging to the educational sector. Heather says that teaching is her life and believes that it is essential to keep abreast of current communication trends within the digital landscape. Heather is now using programs like Blogger, WordPress and Squidoo to provide online mentoring, build niche communities and provide support for people from all walks of life.
For many years Heather has been working in to raise awareness of the potential of Web 2.0 tools. In 2007 she designed comprehensive Web 2.0 Calendar to encourage staff and students to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today. The objectives of this program are to encourage exploration of Web 2.0 and new technologies and to provide staff with new tools that will engage students and develop literacy skills. Work through this calendar and you will become familiar with blogging and learn about Digital Citizenship and how to make the most of the Global Teacher and Student network.
Here at Squidoo Heather runs the Pythian Games, built on the philosophy of the games which were held in Delphi, and introduces people to Lemuria, the realm that le Enchanteur presides over. She is always surprised by just how many people take the time to figure out the complex spider web she has made in cyber space.
Soul Food is Soul Food not just because of the work of Heather Blakey but thanks to the amazing community which has gathered. Meet the Soul Food Ravens who help keep the cogs turning.
Web 2.0 Educational Tool
created by Heather Blakey
The Soul Food Cafe provides a Web 2.0 learning environment. This is powered by WordPress. The AdventURE Calendar, which is a guide to using interactive web sites like Soul Food, launched the The Web 2.0 Telegraph The Web 2.0 Telegraph will provide ongoing updates on new Web 2.0 tools and innovations so make sure to visit Soul Food daily and become a columnist in 2008. The Calendar address, amongst many things, how to:Check the Index to see how comprehensive this calendar is. Warm thanks to Lori Gloyd for producing this index.
Heather Blakey can work with you and help you gain confidence using a wide range of Web 2.0 publishing programs. She will also share her expertise about cyber safety issues. Arrange to have Heather come, as an artist in residence and learn how to become an online publisher. Learn about WordPress, Squidoo and other exciting online publishing programs. Check here for details about some of the workshops she provides
More than you need to know about Heather Blakey
Once upon a time, I came across a fantastic website that changed my life. Soul Food Cafe is a free site site dedicated to all writers and artists. I found a group of dedicated folks who are supportive of the creative life. I was welcomed with open arms into a magical place like no other. I have made the Soul Food way of life part of my daily activities.
- Resume
- Amongst other experiences Heather taught within diverse educational settings - over a thirty five year period. She is currently working for the Victorian Education Channel to establish a Global Teacher/Student Resource
- The Vision
- Ever since she read about the lost museum in Alexandria, Heather Blakey has been on a quest to re-establish a fragment of the 'House of the Muse' in Melbourne, Australia. The Alexandrian museum was, and remains, a beacon. No one is certain what the great institution looked like, but the Greek geographer, Strabo, describes it as part of a richly decorated complex of buildings and gardens. The whole complex was a centre of learning and research, organised into faculties, whose scholars were paid by the royal purse. The library's broader mission was to rescue Greek literature from decay. The Soul Food Cafe and Lemuria sprang from this vision.
- Rummage through Heather's Bookshelves
- Heather Blakey is the creator of the Soul Food Cafe and the fantasy world of Lemuria. Soul Food masks itself as a writing site but those who explore the inner corridors know that Soul Food offers so very much more. Trace Heather's reading footsteps and meet some of the talented people who have influenced her work.
- Navigating Soul Food
- The Soul Food Cafe is in its eighth year now. It is primarily a site to promote writing as a daily practice and it is full of tantalizing creative stimuli to tempt any writer or artist who is interested in perfecting the craft. An artist or writer can make use of Soul Food and never make contact with anyone on the site. All one needs is a visual diary or a journal to complete exercises in.
- Building Niche Communities
- Apart from Building Niche Communities Heather Blakey works tirelessly to spread the word and mentor individuals to ensure that they gain maximum benefit from exciting new Web 2.0 tools.
- 2007 AdvenTURE Calendar
- For the past five years Heather Blakey has made an Advent Calendar each December. It has become a tradition and people look forward to seeing them. The 2007 AdventURE Calendar introduces people to the Web 2.0 world of Soul Food and encourages them to actively participate on the site.
- Much talked about
- SARK Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy, says that she 'visits the Soul Food Cafe to revel in language, soak in creative experiments, and marvel at the depth that is there.'
One of the best sites for creative stimuli I've seen recently is the Soulfood cafe - a feast for the senses! and some great snippets of writing too! Jerry Everard - Soul Art
- A gallery of Heather's Soul Art. Here you will find her special features, projects such as the Dig Tree, Advent Calendars and Chocolate Box.
- Early Introduction to Soul Food
- It recently occurred to me that someone landing on this page from a search engine or from a link somewhere might wonder what The Soul Food Cafe is all about, and who was behind it. I'm Heather Blakey, a secondary school teacher of writing, living in Melbourne, Australia. This network is designed to be a resource for people interested in the craft of writing who need their confidence boosted or are looking for a safe, non judgmental environment in which to write.
These days Soul Food is far more than a writing site. Today it attracts artists and writers from around the world who are eager to travel the Soul Food Silk Road and adopt the Soul Food Way. - Salon du Muse
- Make sure to read some of the interviews that Heather has done with people like SARK, Jane Yolen and Chris Dunmire from the Creativity Portal.
- A Journey With Loss and Grief
- When you read this lens you will gain some insight and understanding in to what motivates and has driven Heather Blakey over a twenty year period.
Skilled eLearning Facilitator - Artist in Residence
Heather Blakey is currently working as a facilitator and artist in residence in a number of Victorian schools, teaching teachers how to use blogs and demonstrating how Web 2.0 tools can be used to enhance curriculum and engage students.
You can learn, from an experienced Webmaster, how to use a diverse range of free internet tools to facilitate literacy, enhance learning and publish outcomes in an online setting. Of course, you may simply want to learn how to become involved in Soul Food, enter the mythical Lemuria and journey with Enchanteur. Contact heatherblakey at fastmail dot fm for more information about what is possible.
You can learn, from an experienced Webmaster, how to use a diverse range of free internet tools to facilitate literacy, enhance learning and publish outcomes in an online setting. Of course, you may simply want to learn how to become involved in Soul Food, enter the mythical Lemuria and journey with Enchanteur. Contact heatherblakey at fastmail dot fm for more information about what is possible.
Currently Working, in Web 2.0 setting, with
Xavier College
Global Teacher - A Blogging Network
Welcome to a Virtual Community for Victorian Teachers. This is a research project in partnership between the Victorian Education Channel and the School Library Association of Victoria. This project is a result of the vision of Sandy Phillips and Mary Manning. The organisation of the network is in large part, the work of Heather Blakey who has ten years experience working in a digital environment. This brand new project takes educators in an exciting new direction.The Magic Garden is a project designed to show educators and their students how good curriculum can be delivered and the outcomes published, using new technology such as blogs, writeboard, photo board and many other exciting applications.
Cora Zon, a professional storyteller and Heather Blakey, an experienced web publisher and webmaster of the Soul Food Cafe, work collaboratively and demonstrate how educators can marry the ancient craft of storytelling, apply current curriculum and publish using state of the art blogging software. Cora tells the enchanting Kazakha story of the 'The Magic Garden' while Heather Blakey delivers a curriculum package that climaxes with self publication on a constellation of Global Teacher, Global Student blogs. Watch, in wonder, at the way this virtual garden is growing as staff, students and the wider community contribute by responding to the activities within the Magic Garden Project.
Other Global Projects which will engage students and people of all ages include:
1. Mad Challenges and Pythian Games
2. Bridge to Lemuria
3. Bulldog Bullies
4. Places of the Heart
5. Priscilla Queen of Cyber Space
6. Aboard the Calabar - A Virtual Pirate Ship
Snapshot of Conference Presentations
- Going where no one has gone
- The challenge for educators is to rethink curriculum and move to relevant technology based curriculum. The blogger revolution is changing not only personal and global communications but thinking, technical, personal and workplace skills. For all intents and purposes blogs are static pieces of publishing software. Heather Blakey will provide a practical presentation which will inspire participants to create a blog and begin networking immediately.
- New Thinking Technologies
- Presentation for Victorian Information Technology Association conference.
- Workshop on Blogging
- Two hour workshop about using technology in Education. The focus was on blogging and engaging students using this new technology
- Crystallising Your Knowledge
- The 'how to' of connecting and engaging your students using collaborative and interactive projects.
Learning Lenses
Apply Squidoo in your Classroom
Heather Blakey is an eLearning expert who has a magic bag filled with programs that will engage students. She will challenge you to produce a project and will spontaneously make suggestions about how you can use IT to make it more engaging for your students.
Heather is always looking for new ways to engage students and will show you just what can be done in your classroom using the interactive features Squidoo offers.
- Mastering WordPress
- In order to blog at Soul Food or on Global Teacher and Student, a learning environment managed by Heather Blakey, you really do need to learn how to drive Word Press.
- Daily Writing Exercises for English Classrooms
- The Pythian Games provide a training venue for students and people who love writing to maintain the daily practice which leads to excellence.
- Bridge to Lemuria
- Cross the bridge and enter the fantasy world of Lemuria, a place where magic is everywhere. This is an exciting, creative literacy project.
- LOTE - Italian
- Check out this lens which demonstrates just how much life can be injected in to your LOTE curriculum when you and your students make lenses. I do not remember learning a language being this much fun when I was at school.
- The Magic Garden
- The Magic Garden is a project designed to show educators and their students how good curriculum can be delivered and the outcomes published, using new technology such as blogs, writeboard, photo board and many other exciting applications.
Cora Zon, a professional storyteller and Heather Blakey, an experienced web publisher and webmaster of the Soul Food Cafe, work collaboratively and demonstrate how educators can marry the ancient craft of storytelling, apply current curriculum and publish using state of the art blogging software. - Create a Book Club
- Take the time to set up a book club and keep everyone informed about books that they can and should be reading. You can use a lens in the classroom to list essential reading and help your students acquire a copy if they want to own a copy as well.
- Free Online Guitar Lessons
- Learn the guitar online. This lens is full of rich resources to help you.
Matching Learning Blogs
containers, a kind of pin board, where individuals, forming a collective can publish responses to prompts you have published on Squidoo and other places online.
Give your right and left brain a work out in the Pythian Games Gymnasium and other purpose built blogs that engage students.
- Pythian Games
- Put your running shoes on and undertake to run the miles. Make writing your daily practice and use this Pythian Games setting to publish the words that accumulate.
- Bridge to Lemuria
- This is the blog, the container where students and members of the Soul Food Community have published responses to the Bridge to Lemuria project.
- The Magic Garden
- This is the blog, the container where students and members of the Soul Food Community have published responses to the Magic Garden Project.
- Fable to Felt
- Learn how to marry the ancient craft of story telling with a tactile felt activity.
Wild Gardeners
The Wild Garden is a collective of blogs that were seeded as a result of the Magic Garden Project. The diversity of blogs that are presented illuminates everyone about the potentiality of blogging. You can paricipate, plant cyber seeds and watch the Wild Garden flourishes Team Blogging with Heather Blakey
the creative potential of blogging
These articles by Heather Blakey reveal that blogging in a community like Soul Food or at Global Teacher reduces stress and enhances personal well-being and self esteem.
- Zen and the Art of Team Blogging
- "Most important of all, however, is the driving force of the manager or moderating team. Without a unifying energy a blog-group would be just a bulletin-board; with 'soul-full' guidance, it becomes a haven, womb or comfortable window-box on creation." Ken Muller
- Potentiate Using Blogger
- Things become what they are because of their potentialities. Teachers often speak of their students' potential, of the reality that just as an acorn in the right setting has the potential to become a mighty oak, the student has potential to excel. To grow into a mighty oak, to reach its potential, the acorn needs nourishment. It follows, therefore, that to reach their potential students need nourishment. Given the right conditions a person's creativity can soar.Clearly the Soul Food Café,(http://www.dailywriting.net) a virtual community for writers and artists, provides just the right conditions for a person's creativity to flourish. Gwen Myers, says "The worlds' oldest living organism is a grove of Aspen trees. They are each a separate tree, but they are one giant organism. Even though an individual tree may fall, the grove still flourishes. That is Soul Food to me. We are each our own tree, mature and strong enough to survive anything life may throw at us; but we all flourish and taste immortality within the Circle Of Soul Food.
A Treasury for Teachers
save time by using Soul Food prompts
Soul Food is quite literally overflowing with special projects that can be used in the classroom. The Magic Tram for example has some fabulous exercises for students of all ages Priscilla's Secret Mission - Mastering Web 2.0
a Soul Food initiative
Priscilla set out on the first world, Soul Food Tour, , to meet and work with members of the Soul Food Community. But just as Captain Cook left England to do more than monitor the Transit of Venus, Priscilla left Australian shores with a secret mission. By her own admission she is computer illiterate, let alone Web 2.0 savvy. Priscilla is hoping that her hosts will teach her all about the web and the exciting things she can do in cyber space. Then she will be truly able to call herself Priscilla, Queen of Cyber Space.You can learn all about Web 2.0 with Priscilla as she globe trots. She has been in the deep west of the United States and is currently in the Europe. Places she has stayed include Los Angeles, Knotts Island, North Carolina, and Apache Junction, Arizona.
"Heather introduced me to the metaphorical side of my career life and led me towards deep reflection"
Heather Blakey is a... Purveyor of Creative Stimuli
a trickster who takes the form of a raven
Many wonder just how deep Heather Blakey's a Box of Wonderment is for she continually manages to surprise by pulling out more fabulous creative stimuli. It is hard to resist the appeal of one of her mad schemes. Heather Blakey... campaigns to populate Lemuria
Lemuria is a land of mystery. For many centuries the idea of a lost continent, having once existed in the space now occupied by the Atlantic Ocean, was expressed frequently. Generally it is now considered to be merely a legend, without any scientific foundations. However it is almost certain that at one stage there was far more land than waterThe Soul Food Cafe is an on-line departure place where people from all over the world enter the safety of the Lemuria to write and make art. They do this by posting stories and other creative work on individual blogs or team-blogs. There is a niche for everyone in Lemuria- whether it be a virtual room at Riversleigh Manor, a private cell at the Hermitage for contemplation, or a noisy lounge in the Taverna di Muse. There's even the Temple of Solace where we may share real-life pain and grief. No doubt there are other places in Lemuria waiting to be discovered and explored.
All one needs to get a passport to Lemuria is the commitment to write or create on a daily basis. This is a small fare for the adventure of a lifetime.
To really learn about Lemuria, visit Heather Blakey's Lonely Planet Guide to Lemuria and the Hitch Hicker's Guide to Lemuria. Also check out Lori Gloyd's description of coming to Lemuria.
Heather Blakey is......le Enchanteur
mistress of Lemuria
le Enchanter, is Heather Blakey's alter ego and just between you and me she sometimes represents herself as the Amazon Queen and Baba Yaga. L'Enchanteur is a dazzling shape shifter who led a party of travellers through mystical doorways into the world of Lemuria. Pioneers discovered the Soul Food Silk Road and found places such as The House of the Serpents, the Lemurian Abbey, the Crest Hermitage, Duwamish Bay, the Lemurian Archipelago and the House of Baba Yaga. L' Enchanteur's energy is magnetic and somehow she brings out the very best in the creatives who follow her faithfully to new and exciting destinations. Work with le Enchanteur and you will be enchanted, not only by the development of your own creative powers, but by the personal healing that takes place. As you come to know yourself you will slay the inner critic, discover your authentic voice and name yourself. You will learn, in time, that all you need to do is holler for one of l'Enchanteur's spirit guides and you will receive the support and encouragement you need. Heather Blakey is Lady Sibyl Riversleigh
hostess of Riversleigh Manor and Riversleigh Village
Rivesleigh Manor is a rambling old manor house. This house was once the house of Lord and Lady Riversleigh and after the death of Lord Riversleigh was inherited by Lady Sibyl Riversleigh, the youngest daughter of the Riversleigh's. It is the first port of call for pilgrims who step through Enchanteur's magic portal.Paths lead, from Riversleigh through the Murmuring Woods to the The Hermitage and the Lemurian Abbey. Riversleigh Manor is the base home of those who have decided to come and discover the magic of Lemuria.
Heather Blakey is.... the Abbess
of the Lemurian Abbey
When she first talked about theLemurian Abbey , Heather talked about how she had envisioned it as a place full of fine art and craft, a virtual monastery that would be filled with tiny, spartan cells where votaries of the muse could come, retreat behind walls and observe time differently. She believed that in this Monastery, time would not be measured with clocks and believed that monastic writers would be free to wander through the cloisters and walled gardens in a meditative state, capturing metaphors in their writing nets. The Lemurian Abbey quickly became a wonderful sanctuary for people from all over the world, people eager to practice the Soul Food Way and make writing and art a daily practice.
Today The Lemurian Abbey is a divine sanctuary across the lake from the
The City of Ladies. This lake is not unlike Lake Como in Northern Italy and is home to votaries of the Soul Food Way.
The Abbess (Heather Blakey's alter ego) welcomes all comers and encourages residents to give bricks to ensure the growth of this virtual sanctuary by shopping here.
Heather Blakey is..... Ebony Wilder
housekeeper of the Abbey and legendary pirateer, Captain Ebony Wilder
When Ebony Wilder was young and bold and not so old she was the Captain of the Calabar which sailed the seven Lemurian Seas. You can join the search for Dead Man's Chest and the Elixir of Creativity here. You would be a silly sausage to miss out on all the fun and antics on board. And who knows! Johnny Depp might just show up for one of Ebony's voyages. Joining Forces with Imogen Crest
Heather Blakey and Imogen Crest, the Lemurian Hermit, have become an artistic duo and they work together in the Soul Food Hermitage shop to present unique, soulful art work that narrates the story of Lemuria, a realm Heather founded beyond the enchanted doorway.Imogen Crest says that nature is an ever changing process, and without it, the planet would be continually suffering. Trees protect and make homes for small creatures, shelter people and provide shade. Some people believe they have soul, and can attract you to them. Whatever you believe, they are beautiful to look at, as are most things in nature.
Heather Blakey, creator of the Lemurian realm adopts the role of illustrator and has drawn the Lemurian characters into being.
The Temple of Solace
Heather Blakey provides a safe space to find solace and keen and wail if need be.
"Living with my husband's advanced cancer for many years, and his death in January 2007, proved challenging. Advanced cancer is a term to describe a metastatic cancer and is a cancer which is unlikely to be cured.One of the painful realities, when cancer will not go away, is that family and friends sometimes withdraw. For years I have converted the stress of 'living with cancer' to creative energy and the Soul Food Cafe is a product of that creative energy.
More recently, since the death of my husband and a sense of being abandoned, in a foreign country, The Temple of Solace has been propelled by a deep sense of loss and a desire to protect others from a similar fate.
The Temple of Solace are not just for those who are feeling isolated because of circumstances such as that which I have experienced. It is quite simply a refuge, a safe place to retreat. Visitors to the Temple may be searching for some kind words as a result of a loss of a job, a way of life, an empty nest, the loss of a teddy bear, the death of a pet, the loss of property, loss of a way of life, a lost muse, a sense of abandonment: about almost anything."
Are You A Health Worker?
do you yearn for personal care or need to replenish your well?
In a world which is now demanding more creative approaches to societal and familial problems, writing, art, psychology and aids for personal transformation are proven growth areas. Personal transformation tuition is being offered as part of everyday life and has gained more acceptance in the community.The Soul Food Café - Global Online Daily Art and Writing - has successfully offered personal online mentoring for over the past eight years, and plans to offer this service in fascinating new ways.
Emerging global trends, accelerated by the growth of the internet medium, point to the potential for a wider range of delivery of tuition, and have opened the way for exciting approaches that can be applied globally.
It is the function of Soul Food Café to provide a service to global niche markets, though blogger networks, which provide the ideal tutorial structure to deliver this transformation.
Soul Food now offers a sanctuary, a retreat for those therapists who work in the health field. It provides a place for both them and carers to escape and offers health workers an important tool for their toolbox as they confront difficult situations.
For information about exciting work mining the collective unconscious contact heatherblakey at dailywriting dot net.
Heather Blakey's Original 'Writing For Well Being'
- Writing for Well Being
- It is a well known fact that writing has a positive effect on an individuals sense of well being. Just as it was healthy for Australian pioneer women to sit and write, meditatively, to their loved ones back in the home country, so modern women can gain the benefit.
- Warming the Stone Artist
- The Soul Food Cafe is a quirky cyber retreat for writers. It is a compound of connecting corridors and is multi- leveled. There are sections that are undergoing extension and old parts that are being redecorated. There are windows looking out upon the secret garden and the old Hayloft studio where artists and writers alike have claimed space. This cafe is a hive of activity. It is full of the sound of voices, new voices, old voices, all chatting and laughing, sharing hints over coffee or a nourishing meal. The Soul Food Cafe fosters creativity and encourages the writer to rest, relax and bask in anticipatory pleasure. It is the perfect place to spread your writing wings and work with a muse.
- Making Descansos
- Traditionally Descansos (Spanish for 'place of rest') marked the place of loss. Often we pray that the one who has died will rest in peace. In truth it is those that are left behind that face the challenge of resting peacefully. This is my place of rest to mark my loss and celebrate the joy that we knew over a period spanning thirty seven years. It is my space to find peace.
Mining the Collective Unconscious
tap tapping on the chamber door
Heather Blakey is running an exciting online journey where she and participants have donned their mining hats and are mining the collective unconscious in their search for the creative grail. Their work embraces the pyschological work of people like Jung, Eliade, Gimbutus, Campbell and Estes. It is exhilarating to watch the transformation that takes place within the anathor of Soul Food.If you are interested in working in this way simply contact Heather at heatherblakey at dailywriting dot net with an expression of interest. Make sure to use the words Mining the Collective Unconscious in your email.
Heather Blakey Interviewed
- Interview by Chris Dunmire - Creativity Portal
- I recently enjoyed reciprocal interviewing my friend Heather Blakey from the Soul Food Cafe I'm not afraid to say that Heather enchants everyone she comes in contact with, including me. Though based in Australia, her creative Web weaving and sweet sticky words of praise entice and entrap all sorts of unsuspecting victims into her lair. Heather not only amuses, but she is a muse. Enjoy the interview. - Chris Dunmire
- Sarah Boland - Pop Fiction
- Pop Fiction salutes Heather Blakey with a grandstand-sized Mexican wave. We reckon Heather rocks - she's imaginative and innovative with how she gets her students excited about books, reading and writing! Heather%uFFFDs regular teaching gig is at Latrobe Secondary College and students have called her a force. When Heather's not teaching, she hangs out in cyberspace adding cool stuff to her website
Heather's Interviews
not your everyday interview
When Heather interviews people she makes sure to ask questions which effectively hold up the mirror and enable her 'captive' to reveal interesting insights.
- Chris Dunmire - Creativity Portal
- Chris Dunmire is a creativity enthusiast, wife, and student of life who resides in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago. Chris is a graphic designer and driving force behind the Creativity Portal, a Web site promoting the exploration and expression of personal creativity. Her lifework includes Web publishing, artistic dabbling, drawing corny comics, motivational writing, and encouraging creativity, self-awareness, and personal growth in others.
- SARK
- SARK Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy, says that she 'visits the Soul Food Cafe to revel in language, soak in creative experiments, and marvel at the depth that is there.'
- Sarah Boland - Pop Fiction
- Sarah Boland was born in Melbourne, Australia. She writes for young adults, and in 2001 conceived the Pop Fiction Youth e-Literature event. Sarah tours the event to schools, universities and libraries.
Pop Fiction is more than just reading. It is about young people using multimedia to make art that's related to a selected book. They can use the story's characters, plot, theme, issues, symbols, even important words to create their own Pop Fiction creations. After making their own Pop Fiction they get to star on the Pop Fiction Website. - Deanne Fitzpatrick - Hooking Rugs
- Deanne Fitzpatrick grew up on a hill overlooking the water, and watching it was her pastime. "That is a natural part of life by the water," she explains. "You watch it and plan your day by the rhythms of the tides. The omnipotence of the water is clear and understood by coastal people. It is said that you should never take the water for granted because it can only be counted on to change." Deanne's rug 'The Lookout' captures the essence of what she saw.
To Ignite the Creative Fire
listen to Mariza
Concerto em Lisboa w/Bonus DVD
Amazon Price: $18.98 (as of 10/07/2008)
Rich Ancestral History - Australian Roots
"The past does not lie down and decay like a dead animal. It waits for you to find it again and again." "The Gilda Stories" ~Jewelle Gomez
Heather Blakey is a descendent of Captain George Watson, who arrived in Hobart, from England, with his family, aboard The Resource in 1830. The Watson brothers had a significant impact on the development of the shipping industry in Tasmania.
The Mountain Tops of Lemuria, by George Chale Watson is a numinous piece of work which has directly impacted on her work and provided her with a container in which to mine the collective unconscious. Lemuria is a direct link with the past and Heather's ancestors who helped to build the Commonwealth of Australia.
She is also a direct descendant of Joseph and Mary Stewart who were transported to Van Dieman's Land in 1850.
This is a collection of material she is gathering which helps her identify her ancestral roots.
- Billabong Dreaming
- Billabong Dreaming is a blog where Heather Blakey sits by a Billabong and writes her ancestors in to being.
- Mountain Tops of Lemuria
- The Mountain Tops of Lemuria, by George Chale Watson is a numinous piece of work which has directly impacted on her work and provided her with a container in which to mine the collective unconscious. Lemuria is a direct link with the past and Heather's ancestors who helped to build the Commonwealth of Australia.
Help Stock the Library
Heather puts hundreds of hours of work into Soul Food. These are some of the books she is hoping will materialize on my bookshelves.
Myth and Reality (Religious Traditions of the World)
Amazon Price: $17.05 (as of 10/07/2008)
Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth
Amazon Price: $20.00 (as of 10/07/2008)
Images and Symbols
Amazon Price: $13.57 (as of 10/07/2008)
Essential Sacred Writings From Around the World
Amazon Price: $22.50 (as of 10/07/2008)
The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy
Amazon Price: $24.75 (as of 10/07/2008)
Looking for a Philanthrophist
Since it began in 1999, The Soul Food Cafè has been run and financed entirely by Heather Blakey. Heather has given freely of her time and her work with individuals, together with the material she has provided on the site, has made a difference to the creative lives of many people. Soul Food is seeking sponsorship to help grow it and to ensure that all the services on the site remain free. Leave a message for Heather
and she or a raven will get back to you.
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Imogen_Crest
This lens is amazing, just gets more and more informative and interesting! Fantastic, Heather! Posted March 24, 2008 |
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KimGiancaterino
Very well done! One to visit again and again. Posted March 20, 2008 |
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LJG
This keeps getting better and better Posted March 04, 2008 |
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SonjaHelga
This is an amzing lens. It will take a while to read through this. Very informative. Posted February 23, 2008 |
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Grammacrone
Thank you Heather, this helps even those of us who have been with you since the year dot. Excellent idea. Fran Posted February 20, 2008 |
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RavensSilkRoad
Wow--and I thought I might be a busy lady--you have me beat a thousand-fold--and still I am inspired to do more because of you--and I gather more enjoyment as I carry on--thank you for having me.... Posted February 18, 2008 |
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Jodhiay
Wait: I just figured ratings out! It's so simple: just click on the stars. I thought there would be more to it than that. D'oh on me! Posted February 16, 2008 |
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Jodhiay
I'm still trying to figure out how to rate your lens, Heather, but Squidoo doesn't seem to want me to! But I will prevail! Posted February 16, 2008 |
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Intuitive
Hi Heather - I'm already an artist,intuitive and amateur depth psychologist and now I'm formally moving into the health care field through massage therapy school. I'm interested in learning more about how you're weaving together that and the concept of the collective conscious. Posted February 11, 2008 |
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LJG
Your "resume" is impressive and there is just so much useful information here. Priscilla's checklist is a great way to organized and started on one's journey into the blogosphere. And I plan to investigate some of the books you have listed... Lori Posted February 11, 2008 |
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dovedove
Heather, this takes my breath away! Fantastic work!! Posted November 28, 2007 |
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alexchua
When you'll ready, you'll recognize her as your teacher... ... http://www.dailywriting.net/ is always waiting for you... ... Are you ready? Posted November 10, 2007 |
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cre8tivecoach
Absolutely wonderful, Heather. Kudos to you! --CD Posted February 17, 2007 |
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LJG
This is fantastic, Madame l'enchanteur! I agree with Believer-- I know you do a lot of things but when you put them all in one place, it is phenomenal to look at! Posted October 07, 2006 |
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jjann
I hadn't realised just how extensive your work is and how many it aims to include and benefit. This is awesome! Posted October 06, 2006 |
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Imogen_Crest
Heather, this is absolutely brilliant. I say the "air does crackle with creativity" too! Posted October 03, 2006 |
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SoulSister
I agree completely with the first commentator above. This lens is incredible!! You really ought ot broadcast this one lots and lots!! Superb piece of work!! Posted September 21, 2006 |
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Waikato_Valuta
Hi Heather, Posted September 21, 2006 |
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Believer
Heather, what an extraordinary lens. I'm aware of most of the things you do, but I've never seen them brought into such clear focus before. Knowing the power you exert on all of us in Soul Food, I can only imagine how dynamic your workshops would be. The air must crackle with creativity! Posted September 20, 2006 |