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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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What’s in a Number?
I am not a superstitious person. Nor am I a person who follows my horoscope regularly, or any other discipline, except that which ‘feels true’ to me and which is a useful ‘tool’ for understanding myself and Life. However… some years ago I did participate in a series of workshops about colour therapy. Within those…
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May 20th
All week I have been saying I would not get out of bed on Sunday morning. I wouldn’t even answer the phone or the door. On this date, the 20th of May, the last two years I have had bad news. Two years ago our 16 year old family pet was hit and killed by…
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The Happiness One Suffers
The tentative newness of early Spring blossoms in Ohio is transforming now into early summer leaves. The heavenly scent of lilac mingles… with the wild garlic and dog shit… up and down the drive where I find myself walking. It reminds me that we are much happier in life if we can accept those two…
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Springtime in Bethel
I confess the inspiration for this post is from another blog I follow called ‘Becoming Madame’ (becomingmadame.wordpress.com/). She writes about all things French, and particularly Parisian. If you are a Francophile, or just an armchair traveler, you will enjoy it. However, I have just taken an afternoon walk on a gorgeous Ohio spring day. It…
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Too Old for Encouragement?
Today I found myself wondering about ‘encouragement’. You hear the word ‘support’ a lot these days and that’s a good thing, but it doesn’t seem quite imbued with the emotion that the word ‘encouragement’ conveys. Perhaps it is just semantics, but whatever you call it, it’s what we give to those who are either struggling…
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Passing Great Grandma’s ‘baton’
When Allison left home a few weeks ago I had a couple of dozen (or so) things to help her with, since she was still working full time and trying to orchestrate an interstate move. In the spare few moments in between, I was trying to come up with a parting gift, or gesture, that…
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Tears on Toast
There is a fairly well known radio programme on the ABC here in Australia, called ‘Tears on Toast’. In actual fact it is a programme about Opera (the tears part) done early in the day (the toast referring to breakfast, part). I just like the metaphor and the possibilities it conjures, especially at this moment in…
