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Unconditional Love - part one
When my beautiful daughter left here, after her last visit,
she was going to Dubbo to the highly regarded Western Plains Zoo.
When she’d gone I thought about zoo visits we’d had when she was a child and decided to reminisce with a cup of tea and some photos.
There were many photos that stirred emotions.
The mess she’d [...]
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 [...]
Moss Vale RDA - Fitzroy Equestrian Centre
My daughter had a horse from a very early age. This horse came to us quite accidently.
I’d gone to rescue the joey of a kangaroo that had died after being caught in a fence. The people that owned the property this kangaroo was found on, also owned horses. My daughter was 4 at the [...]
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 [...]
The Joy of Singing - ShACappella
“Alas for those who never sing and die with all their music in them.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
What a joy it is to sing!
It doesn’t matter if you think you’re a great singer or if you think you can’t sing. To sing is joyous. As Karen Ashworth, the founder of ShACappella says ”Sing when you are down [...]
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 [...]
All Things Great are Small
This week I have come down with a cold. It has hit me like a sledge hammer. I haven’t had a cold in years, so I’d forgotten how foggy headed and miserable a cold can make one feel.
I feel as though all the rain we’ve had has fallen directly on me, saturated me, and left [...]
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 [...]
A Positive News Story - Yes they are around.
I know it’s an old one, but I didn’t hear the story at the time and there has been so much negative news via the media, that when I recieved this in an email this morning (we must be a bit slow in Aus) I had to post it. Besides I love the punch line.
Donner [...]
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 [...]
Midlife Magic: Becoming the Person You are Inside
Funny how certain things come to you at the right time. This little book, Midlife Magic: Becoming the Person You are Inside has been one of those things.
When I first started blogging with Wordpress.com I came across http://midlifecrisisqueen.com. It was a blog I had an instant affinity with. The honesty of the writer of the [...]
Country Photos, our backyard
This is a photo taken by my daughter not far from where we live. A place she often visits, to swim, to enjoy, to think, to take photos. My daughter was raised in a beautiful country area of NSW. It’s hot in summer 35c yesterday, and can snow in winter, as you can see by [...]
Ambition to Meaning: Finding your life’s purpose
Recently I posted the trailer for Ambition to Meaning: http://whttp://hotmiddlescence.com/2008/12/09/what-was-great-in-the-morning-will-be-little-at-evening/
I found the trailer and some of Dr Dyer’s quotes compelling enough to find myself looking forward to seeing the film.
Yesterday, my oportunity came via www.spiritualmediablog.com Matt Welsh had left a post with footage of of an interview with Dr Wayne Dyer on Ellen Degeneres. During [...]
Memories
About a year ago Alex and I spent one of my most memorable times together. He’d been on a ten day 4 wheel drive tour into the high country in Victoria. On his arrival back here we went out for dinner to one of the small village eateries. It was a romantic atmosphere, with only [...]
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 [...]
Today I’m 53
Today is my birthday. I”m 53. Did you read read that Brigit, you are 53! It all seems ridiculous. How could I already be 53. I don’t feel it, well most of the time I don’t feel it. Yesterday while I was mowing my 1/3 of an acre of backyard with a push mower I [...]
Christmas and spiritual significance
It’s Christmas eve. As a child my german family gave their gifts on Christmas Eve. It was always an excititing day. Mum would cook, dad would do last minute ’stuff’ and I would eagerly await evening. The gifts would sit under the tree, and I could barely endure the temptation to sneak a peek.
We [...]
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 [...]
