Tide to the Moon is a story-filled dose of contemplation on being human.
Join host Kate Lawrence, a practicing storyteller, meditator and vaguely pagan nature lover
as I share my playful and reflective musings on navigating this ‘one wild and precious life’.

Together may we be reminded and inspired to find deeper meaning, joy and reverence in the waters of existence.

Recorded at Story Wise Woodend on August 2016.  One story per episode for easy on the go listening. This seasons theme is fire and your host is Dez Rock. 

Sue's brilliant and hilarious "long bow" story of fire that takes place in a girls catholic school. 

Recorded at Story Wise Woodend on August 2016.  One story per episode for easy on the go listening. This seasons theme is fire and your host is Dez Rock. 

Russell Yardley's story of kiln fire. 

Recorded at Story Wise Woodend on August 2016.  One story per episode for easy on the go listening. This seasons theme is fire and your host is Dez Rock. 

Peter Fernon tells a gripping story about an Australian bushfire, make sure you stick around for the end where you get a deeper understanding of the trauma of what bushfires can cause. 

Recorded at Story Wise Woodend on August 2016.  One story per episode for easy on the go listening. This seasons theme is fire and your host is Dez Rock. 

Nicole Jacks tells an amusing tale of having to fire someone, several times.. to make sure they are fired. 

Recorded at Story Wise Woodend on August 2016.  One story per episode for easy on the go listening. This seasons theme is fire and your host is Dez Rock. 

Kate Lawrence story on youth, smoking, fire, never admitting fault and forever wanting to grow up fast.

Recorded at Story Wise Woodend on August 2016.  One story per episode for easy on the go listening. This seasons theme is fire and your host is Dez Rock. 

France Palmers compelling story not quite about bushfires, but about fires non the less. 

Third episode of season four, recorded at Story Wise Woodend on August 2016.  One story per episode for easy on the go listening. This seasons theme is fire and your host is Dez Rock. 
Christine Hardiman's fantastically told story from her youth of one particular incident of her seven year old sister dangerous playing with their dads fire arm in one memorable car ride. 

Second episode of season four, recorded at Story Wise Woodend on August 2016.  One story per episode for easy on the go listening. This seasons theme is fire and your host is Dez Rock. 

Barbara Crljen tells a brilliant story of fire on her property. 

First episode of season four, recorded at Story Wise Woodend on August 2016.  One story per episode for easy on the go listening. This seasons theme is fire and your host is Dez Rock. 
Anna Redenbach's story is one of a metaphorical fire within. 

In this first story from Tania Christiano, she shares a touching tale with a different spin on the notion of place, a place at the Christmas table.

Kate Lawrence shares a heart felt story of place, the place she lives in the Macedon Ranges and her exploration of the original inhabitants of the land.

Malcolm Duffield spins a wonderful story connecting his first political act with Brexit, a 6 month trip lasting 30 years, and a bridge to nowhere. 

Preeti Helena gives away her Swiss origins with her accent, and takes us on a journey through her relationship to place and to wandering, ending back on the slopes of a postcard Switzerland.

Sue Yardley regales us with evocative descriptions of growing up in the coal-choked Morwell of the late 60's.  Her story centres on the centrality in summer,  with its characters and drama, of the local pool.

In the first of the stories from the Story Wise Woodend night where the theme was place, Russell Yardley takes us back to his country Victorian childhood in Ellinsford in the 50's and 60's, a time of ferrets, travelling salesmen and thruppence for third in the school races. 

Kate Lawrence shares a story of the pain of finding yourself inexplicably on the wrong side of the line of ones own integrity.

Peter Fernon tells a story of land boundaries in a small country town in Victoria, and the tensions and characters it reveals.

In this 3rd episode in the 3rd season of Story Wise Woodend Podcast, we hear a story from June 2016, where the theme of the night was Boundaries.   Jackie Kerin shares a moving story of being drawn to assist a young man in crisis, and the shared humanity she experienced.

Kate Lawrence, host of Story Wise Woodend, shares the tale of an epic journey across three states, with her dad and his not 'normal' approach to life.