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Love is?
Minutes before this photo was taken, that beautiful calm the sunset imposes was missing, as the waves crashed almost recklessly upon the shore.
Then the transformation occurred. Snippets of orange and pinks began to appear on the horizon. My focus changed from the power of the ocean to the magic forming in the sky.
As nature painted [...]
Sydney And The Deep Blue Sea
After spending a couple of days in Sydney, I’ve needed a couple of days to get over my stay in that beautiful city I spent many years living in, and now my daughter wants to do the same.
In my youth I found Sydney an invigorating city. Full of beauty and life. A rich tapestry of [...]
Love, Like A River Flows
Love like a river flows
Infinite in depth and strength
Forever mysterious,
entrancing,
beckoning
The soul of life
Love like a river flows
….Been thinking a lot about love lately; its lure to continually participate. Looking into this river as the day drew to a close, its stillness reflected life, and I fell in love all over again. I’m not even sure [...]
Talonted
My first promotion of a favourite blog has to be Talonted: http://talonted.blogspot.com/
Not only is Talon an observer and photographer of all things beautiful in nature and in her own back yard, she is also an inspiring writer. Her words are vivid in imagery:
Some things are just beautiful…
like the sweet sliver of crescent moon sitting low [...]
Blog Awards
I’ve recently been awarded my second blog award. The first blog award I decided to ….somewhat rudely really, ignore. I just couldn’t quite figure out why I didn’t want to accept it, but I didn’t want to. I didn’t have enough time think about it in depth. I didn’t want to just say ‘no,’ so [...]
Details and the Big Picture
That’s how I see my life: a whole lot of complex detail, needing attention, clouding my ability to see the big picture.
But what is the big picture? Viewed from a child’s perspective, the big picture is often what we are going to be when we grow up. When we have grown up, and become what [...]
As Clear as? - Fitzroy Falls!
Toward the waterfall
I used to bush walk in Fitzroy Falls, a beautiful area, where it is easy to walk and think, amongst the sound of birds, and the smell of Eucalypts, or sit and meditate to the sound of waterfalls. Recently I returned to Fitzroy Falls, camera in hand, to take photos of a place I [...]
Rainbows
Rainbows have always held a fascination for me. The way they suddenly appear with that glimmer of sunshine breaking through the clouds. The way they always seem so far away; and where do they end? Where that pot of gold is of course.
As a child I was sure I could find the end of the [...]
Contemplating
This may seem like a bit of a contradiction to my last post of being in a tunnel, but over the last year, I’ve done a lot of doing. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve done a fair bit of contemplating too as well as bit of meditation here and there, but generally a lot of doing. [...]
There Is A Crack In Everything - That’s How The Light Gets In
Once upon a time life was good. Not easy, but good. She was the protector, the provider, the producer, the nurturer. She worked hard and was rewarded with the abundance of life.
He came - a gift from life, in all his abundance of good and bad. He saw, not always what she saw, [...]
At Times It’s Hard To See The Wood For The Trees
Perhaps it has to do with having survived rather than lived a tough year and wanting that to change. Perhaps it has to do with just wanting a change. Perhaps it has to do with having bought the new camera. I’m not sure, but as those of you that frequently visit can see, I’ve decided [...]
Ways of Seeing
If you like cats, the following will be an appealing photo. If you don’t, you’ll probably already be thinking “not another cat or kitten story, that she thinks is cute.”
No, this post is about changing the frame of reference, to get a different picture, a different understanding.
This is the vision that greeted me recently as [...]
Feral Beryl
The inspiration for this blog post comes from Talon. In her post on April 17th she coaxed her readers (actually she warned her readers) to read on….
The post is about her cat bringing home presents and I think these guys are related.
I arrived home this evening to be welcomed with this gift:
Sweet hey? Now [...]
Blue Sky after days of dark clouds
Finally on Wednesday blue sky broke its way through the clouds.
We’ve had grey days and rain for days on end. Grey sky, dark clouds, and all the crap with Telstra/Bigpond. How readily my mood can plummet, when things go wrong and the sky is grey.
What did I do, how did I cope, living in Sydney [...]
The New Camera
The new camera. Notice I didn’t say “my new camera.”
A while ago, I asked my daughter if there was anything she could do for a career, what would it be. She answered, “I’d be a photographer for National Geographic.” Well, I thought I’d help her along. I told her to find a course or do [...]
Wow, how time flies!
How time flies - I just looked at the date of my last post. Two weeks ago! What have I been doing that has kept me away from my blog? Setting up a website. The site is called http://southernhighlandsentertainment.com/ It is about Southern Highlands entertainment. I’ve used the Wordpress platform again. Now that within itself [...]
What to do, what to do, what to do?
These have been the words constantly swirling around in my head since losing my two days a week job. It’s not that big a financial loss, but it certainly will impact on my finances, and it’s an amount of money I can’t really do without. Of course different opportunities present themselves at times like these…just [...]
Hostgator
Over the last couple of days, I have tried to upload wordpress onto a new site with hostgator. Hostgator is also the host of this site.
When I changed my blog from wordpress.com to .org I decided to do so through Hostgator. The change over was easy. I followed the instructions on http://becomeablogger.com. The site has [...]
Men at the bar
No, not the legal bar. The bar at the little country pub I work at to make a quid.
It’s a pub I’ve worked at for the last year. I swore I’d never work in a pub again, after my years of bar work through my youth.
In those days, the customer was always right, and you [...]
Single parenting
Over the last few days there have been a number of incidences that have left me contemplating the result of single parenting. The main one I guess, being a post left on http://thewildpomegranate.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/the-more-things-change-part-ii/
In this post, Grace, the mother of two children she has raised on her own, expresses her thoughts, her anguish, her love, on [...]
Reflection and 2009
The first day of the new year.
Under the shower this morning I wanted to wash last year down the plug hole. I wanted to start afresh.
Then I realised that it was what happened last year that has led me to where and who I am now. I am so grateful for the things I’ve descovered [...]
Kim Cattrall and Sensitive Skin
Kim Cattrall is about to star and executive produce an American version of the British series Sensitive Skin. A series about a woman going through her midlife crisis. In part of an interview Kim stated: “I feel that it’s the right territory, talking about a woman going through a midlife crisis. I think we’ve heard [...]
A little bit of magic
No big deal, but none the less, a little bit of magic.
Yesterday’s post became a waffle about being alone in cyberspace in my middlescence. This morning I turned on the computer to find some comments in my inbox. Magic. Not because the comments were there, but the effect they had. The comments were there because I found [...]
Midlife Crisis and being On My Own
When I started my blog with Wordpress.com earlier this year, it was for therapy. My midlife crisis and grief were more in control of my life than I was. I was on my own. My daughter had left home and my friend and lover of 5 years had died.
On Wordpress.com I gathered a small following [...]
