Wayne D Knoll
My blogs
- THE WANDERING JACKELS
- WILHELMSBURG Shipping List: Hamburg to Hobart Town, Van Diemens land, 1855
- Yarra Valley-Dandenong... Gippsland-Wester... Non-British Pioneers
- Compost of Dreams
- SILESIAN (LOWER) PLACE NAMES: GERMAN - POLISH
- The Wandin Saga
- The 19th Century Mentality was One of Potency
- TUFT a novel (Plum Puddings & Blackfellow's Bread)
- A Plantsman on the Fiery Plains of Australia Felix
- Christians Of The Australian Clay
- Armed With The Weapons Of The Whipbird
- YARRABERG - The Melbourne Germans Built
- Joseph Tice Gellibrand's End
- The Cornishmen of Clunes
- Psalms Against Smug Minds and Artificial Loves
- Pioneers of Silvan, South Wandin or 'The Mountain'
- Burleigh, Silvan South, Wandin Yallock, Victoria Australia
- RECIPES WRIT OF THE MENU OF LOVE
- Salvation Pains: Journal of an Australian Outback Pilgrimage
- The University of South Wandin
- Red Earth Music: - Red Dirt & Silvan Songs
- The Eat Words Diet
- World Peace & Other Cries
- Knolls On The Southern Earth: - the Knoll Families of Australia
- WalkingBed: Christian Pilgrimage
- Australian Christian Martyrs
- From Burra Burra to Ballaarat or Bendigo & Beyond
- Past Carings of Distinction
- The Cost Of Prime-Ministersh...
- Way Goer
- Such Is Life & Other Furphies
- The Gnarled Log of a Lost Country - Short Stories
- Serious Nonsense - kid's stuff
- Unk Alf's Report: the 1935 Diary of Alfred Hollis (1881-1952) of Silvan, Vic.
- The Justification of Joseph Tice Gellibrand: A Thesis
- WÜRTTEMBERG-AUST...
- ERDMANN JÄCKEL's DESCENDANTS
- Losers & Misfits Make History
- BRING BACK THE OLD PLACE NAMES, TOWN, ROAD
- Fifty Candles For The Holy Pyromaniac
- Silvan South State School No.4259
- Songs of The Australian Frontier
- GERMAN-AUSTRALIA... ALIENS OF MILITARISM
- Roots Against Deracination: Place, Heritage, Ancestry
- Jackel Families of Australia also Jakel Jaekel Jaeckel Jakl Jackle
Blogs I follow
- ABC News Watch
- Don Colacho’s Aphorisms
- ERDMANN JÄCKEL's DESCENDANTS
- Pioneers of Silvan, South Wandin or 'The Mountain'
- Poetic Medicine
- The Outline of Sanity
- The Right Word
Gender | Male |
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Industry | Education |
Occupation | Reader, Researcher, Writer, Speaker |
Location | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Introduction | I am a 4th-to-6th generation Australian of Silesian (Prusso-Polish), Welsh, Schwabian-Württemberg German, yeoman English, Scots, & Cornish stock; all free settlers who emigrated between 1848-1893 as colonial pioneers. I am the 2nd of 7 brothers and a sister raised on the income off 23 acres. I therefore belong to an Australian Peasantry which historians claim doesn't exist. I began to have outbreaks of poetry in 1975 when training for a Diploma of Mission Theology in Melbourne. I've since done a BA in Literature and Professional Writing and Post-graduate Honours in Australian History. My poem chapbook 'Compost of Dreams' was published in 1994. I have built a house of trees and mud-bricks, worked forests, lived as a new-pioneer, fathered-n-raised two sons and a daughter, and am now a proud grandfather. I have worked as truck fresh-food farmer, a freelance foliage-provider, been a member of a travelling Christian Arts troupe, worked as duty officer and conflict resolutionist with homeless alcoholic men, been editor/publisher of a Journal of Literature for Christian Pilgrimage, a frontier researcher, done poetry in performance seminars in schools and public events. |
Interests | I bother about 3 things. 1. Why there's something rather than nothing - and all of what, when and where. 2. That somethings also quicken with life and how. 3.That this life form I am is conscious of inklings of knowledge and inspirations from beyond my thingo self as other's sometimes are. |
Favorite Movies | Julian Jarrold's Crime & Punishment (BBC) 1900, War and Peace (Bondachuk), Andrei Rublov, Bicycle Thieves, Stalker, Ten Canoes, No Country for Old Men, Samson & Delilah, Gran Torino, Van Diemen's Land |
Favorite Music | A Prayer: Lord, give me what you have made me want, I praise and thank you for the desire you have inspired; Perfect what you have begun, and grant me what you have made me long for. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) Johnny Cash Gospel, Gurrumul, Bluegrass, Gillian Welch, The Waifs |
Favorite Books | Reading: any Flannery O'Connor, Jacques Ellul's PROPAGANDA, Bonhoeffer's 'Ethics', Montaigne's 'Essais', Martin Amis, 'Koba The Dread', Robert Conquest 'The Harvest of Sorrow'. Cormack McCarthy |
Try writing your name with your other hand. Where was that person raised?
My Google Web-page:'A life in Conscience to a Coming Earth' about my grandfather: Horace James Jackel - http://waygoer.googlepages.com/horacejamesjackel OR go to: MY WEB PAGE, above left