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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 [...]
Boulder Holders and Bathers
Where have I been? What have I been doing? I’ve been everywhere, so it seems, trying to find a way to make extra income. What have I come up with? Boulder holders and Bathers, with a few other bits as well.
Over the last several months I have been very conscious of opportunity placed along the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“Order!” she cried.
“Order!” She cried.
Lately there’s been a little chaos in my life. It seems to have come with the decision to widen my depth of field, just a tad, to take the next step, in living my life after sheltering in my tunnel: http://hotmiddlescence.com/there-is-a-crack-in-everything-thats-how-the-light-gets-in/
I have decided to start studying again, basically thereby broadening my opportunities [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
A Sense Of Calm
On the 24th of April it was the 1st anniversary of Alex’s death. It was anticipated with grief,angst and remorse.
I thought about him often during the weeks leading up to ‘the day.’ Not so much him - I always think about Alex. I thought more about the circumstances around that period of time a [...]
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 [...]
Metaqua - A new fitness workout
My first endeavour to find something that the woman in middlescence may be interested in came to me, rather than my finding it. It’s a fitness program with a difference. It was introduced to me by a co-worker.
A Southern Highlands local, Sally Beresford came up with the idea when about to turn 40, she found [...]
“Mum, there’s nothing to do.”
Over the weekend I spent some time with a couple of women I know. I had just finished work at the hotel, where some of the guys had arrived back after a weekend fishing. They sat together, recalling worthy moments of their weekend away, bonded by their experience.
As we chatted and listened to their stories, [...]
Challenges
Yesterday I saw someone who brought up many memories and various thoughts. We’d been good friends many years ago, when my daughter and I first moved to the area.
He’s an intelligent man, with a good career, financially stable and owns a beautiful little farm with a very comfortable log cabin style home. He has been [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What was great in the morning will be little at evening
My last post looked at the meaning of life and its relevance to self esteem and youth. It left me thinking about my own purpose in life.
Was I living my life purposefully. My life’s purpose has changed …more than once, With that thought in mind I came across http://www.spiritualmediablog.com/ on which I found information [...]
Calm
Recently I came across an article identifying, stress, high blood pressure, high colestrol, diabetes2 and some medications such as benzodiazepines and beta blockers, as contributing factors in Alzheimer’s or other memory related problems.
Research suggests that as we age the brain finds it more difficult to filter out distractions. The brain also broadens its focus, making the instant retreval of names for instance [...]
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 [...]
