Issue #06 SIDE PROJECTS & CONVERSATIONS
Collabs, Outreach & Early Ideas
August offered a quieter rhythm in this domain, but quiet doesn’t mean dormant. This cycle became a strategic season for planting seeds—subtle yet intentional engagements with community, land, and conversation that hold potential for deeper roots over time.
Rather than seeking immediate outcomes, the emphasis shifted toward relationship investment: opening gentle doors, showing up in small ways, and allowing trust, presence, and alignment to take the lead.
Walking as Connection — Regional Nature, Relational Re-entry
August 2 marked an outreach to the Murray Valley Bushwalkers, initiating light involvement in local nature-based activities. A walk along the Yackandandah rail trail was confirmed—chosen not for intensity, but for meaning: gentle movement, open landscape, and unstructured community interaction. In the context of structural and creative workload, this was a conscious gesture toward reconnection with shared space and non-performative presence.
Similarly, on August 8, a deeper step was taken with registration for Bundyi Cultural Tours at The Rock Nature Reserve – Kengal Aboriginal Place. This Indigenous-led experience combines cultural transmission with physical grounding through the Yerong Walking Track hike. Beyond the logistics of deposit and preparation, this was an act of respectful access—choosing to walk with culture, not just through country.
The Long Arc of Cultivation
These touchpoints may seem minor in scope, but within GSM’s broader ethos, they serve a strategic role: they are rooting points for relational systems. By moving slowly, intentionally, and in alignment with place-based wisdom and communal rhythm, these early interactions build the emotional mycelium of future collaboration.
“Most people look for flowers.
But we’re building soil.”
When you plant with presence, the timeline expands—but so does the resilience.
This month wasn’t about headlines.
It was about tending the ground that future ecosystems will grow from.