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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 [...]
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, [...]
Relax, Relax…..Relax!
Why is it that Melo the cat, can just relax - anywhere? Why is it whenever I try to relax, I firstly need to find a quiet space? Then I need something comfortable to sit on, and I need the temperature to be right. Too cold and I’ll have to get up and get [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
How to de-stress at Christmas
“Yeah - right!” “De-stress at christmas,” but it can be done. It does however mean that you have to be aware of what your stressors are, and how you relate to them. They of course vary for each of us.
My mum is probably my biggest stressor. For some reason the dynamics between myself and her [...]
The Meaning Of Life
Paul Maurice Martin’s comment to yesterday’s post suggested the importance of the meaning of life as well as the purpose/meaning of one’s own life.
This afternoon after speaking with a councellor who has worked with depressed and suicidal youth I also spoke with my 19 year old daughter and a male friend of hers. The opinions of the councellor and my [...]
Strange days indeed
Earlier this week at work the daughter of a co-worker came in to give her mum a hand. During the course of the day I overheard a conversation between the daughter and another young co-worker about their party drug experiences. It made me shudder. I could fee the angst rise about my own daughter, and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
