A Visiting Poet

On Monday this week, we had a lovely visit from a travelling poet and her photographer/roadie.
Nerelie Teese is an ex-Leitchville girl, who attended school with Steve's sister Deb.  Steve met her through Deb in the late sixties and I was introduced to her in the late seventies when she was living in Beaudesert, Qld. 

I don't know how many different paths Nerelie has followed during these years but you can be sure that they are all interesting and people oriented.    Check out her website -- it's fascinating reading.
By the time Steve's and Deb's Mum, Betty, required funeral services, Nerelie, who knew Betty well, had become a Civil Celebrant.   She conducted a beautiful, personal service, which must have thrilled Betty.

Nerelie's latest incarnation is as a travelling bush poet.  She began by reading bush poems, mainly to kids, graduated to memorising the poems and dramatising them and is now giving presentations all over the countryside, indeed, all over the world.  It was a foregone conclusion that Nerelie would write her own poems which are now included in the presentations and ceremonies.   Here in Moree, she performed for the Fairview Senior Citizens Village.

We met Leigh Wright for the first time.  His bush photographs enhance Nerelie's presentations.  He described his role to us as, "Sitting quietly in the back and watching, making mental notes of what grabbed an audience's attention, anything that needed changing."

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