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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Australia
Last night I took myself to see the movie “Australia.” The film as a whole I found disappointing, but it did get me thinking.
Australia’s main story line, (yes, there was more than one), was about a young boy of an aboriginal mother and white australian father in the early 1940’s.
Because of his mixed race, he was [...]
Happiness and the Past
At times when saddness seems insurmountable, it is difficult to see happiness as a potential as I found earlier this year after yet another withdrawal of Alex’s committment.
After that last argument, I tried to discover why as Alex had suggested some years ago, that something in my background must have instilled a ‘do it tough’ value. I [...]
