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What I See From My Back Doorstep
I’m new to reading this blogger but she has inspired me to participate in a ‘back door’ challenge. Cecilia @ thekitchensgarden has asked her fellowship of bloggers to photograph what lies outside their back door and post it onto our blogs so that we can share what it is we see just outside our back…
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Life at 60
The days are long, but the years are short” -Third Splendid Truth, ‘The Happiness Project’ It’s not every day a person turns 60. Some never make it at all. So I am grateful for every fleeting year. After posting recently on the topic of grief, it seems…
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Have the conversation.
Two years ago this week I had a routine mammogram that showed I needed a needle biopsy. Less than a week later I had flown 1500km to have the biopsy as quickly as possible, and a few days later, back at home, May 31st, I was told I had breast cancer. Last evening we saw…
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Grief
It has been just over two months since Dad died. I have been through grief before. Without intending to demean his loss, it is pretty much like the other times I have grieved. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross’s legacy to our society was her determination of the five stages of grief (read: http://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/). Her original concept is fairly…
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Postal Service Anyone?
In Australia one must post a card or letter at a post box or a post office. There is no home pick up as there is in the USA. So, this morning, even though I had a stamp on the card I was sending, a little niggle sent me inside the post office to double…
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Be a duck.
Let’s say for a moment that ducks are part of reality, as we know it. (for a reality check, read blogger Ido Lanuel: http://idolanuel.com/2012/07/19/the-duck1/) Two ducks are skimming placidly along the surface of a lake. Suddenly for no apparent reason they seem to have a disagreement. Perhaps one got a bit of plankton the other…
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Improving my view
I should be paying bills online at the moment, but I am writing because that is what I really want to do. There are times when we should live in the moment and do what gives us immediate pleasure, and times when we should do what will actually contribute to our long term happiness. This…
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Home Again
We have been travelling. As usual it was inspiring, frustrating, exhausting, exhilarating, bewildering and enlightening. I will probably write more about it as I have time to process all the experiences, but for now, I will start at the end. The end of every trip is also a beginning. You arrive home again a slightly…
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Do it.
The other day I was on a mission to try and save the painting I was working on. It was a painful struggle all day. I even began questioning why I was painting at all. I wasn’t particularly enjoying myself, the results were not satisfying, I would never be a great artist, why, why, why? …
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Happy Dancing
The original intent for this blog was to enlighten anyone who was interested about not just my journey with cancer, but to enable others who have not had this disease, to relate better to those who have had it by describing some of the specifics one experiences. This week was a milestone for which I…
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