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What are you willing to give up, to have what you want?
This has been my mantra for the last couple of years. At first it was floating quietly in and out of consciousness. Gradually, as months of efforts toward downsizing wore on and health issues made themselves known, the question grew louder and my answer became clearer. But it is a many faceted answer. About four…
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critters…
This morning I was sitting here at the computer having my coffee and heard a familiar scratching noise in the roof space above me. For 25 years we’ve been visited by the local Black Headed Water Monitor lizards. We are pretty sure they live in the rocks that have been carefully excavated in the driveway,…
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feed them and they will come…
A day without learning something new is a lost opportunity. Awareness of that something is the key to integrating it, however. Sometimes what I see doesn’t fully register and then suddenly I see it in a different light and it goes into the ‘vault’. After years of feeding the birds and gradually observing how clever…
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so much to learn, so little time…
Early one morning after it had rained overnight, I went for my usual walk. I used the ‘cut through’, a small Town Council tended area that also contains the grave of one of the earliest Afghan cameleers to settle in Alice Springs. It is a leafy, shady common area used by some families as a…
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my tree and her moon…
Before the moment is gone I must celebrate with you. It is a cooler, drier start to the day after weeks of high temps and humidity. I’m one of these highly sensitive people who, like Goldilocks relaxes best when things are not too hot or too cold…or too humid. I’m sure I’m painful to live…
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some crabby thoughts…
So much has happened these recent weeks I hardly know where to begin. I have been disappointed, inspired, challenged, delighted, sometimes all in the same hour. But today what is on my mind are crabs. Apparently they are adaptable survivors. So much so, that other unrelated species have evolved to resemble crabs. My crabby thoughts…
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dropping in for the views…
I know that you know I’m decluttering, downsizing, clearing out. You are probably tired of hearing about it but not as tired as I am of doing it. I’m trying to keep myself motivated though and relieved to have as much time as I need to do it. There are many things to be learned…
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scraping away the webs…
There you are…wondering ‘is she ever going to publish anything again?’ Here is your answer, for better or worse. Yes. I am. After the storm in November, Don and I both had health episodes that led us into Christmas and then our first major trip away in three years. We returned in late January and…
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after the blow…
On the evening of November 12 Alice Springs experienced a sudden and violent storm. It has helped me process it, to document the following 10 days or so and it seemed to me it might be of interest to others. It is not heavily edited, it is just a series of entries like a diary…
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the gift of the little frog…
After the good rain we had in February…rain that washed out the roads and the railway line and disrupted our lives even more than Covid…the rain that caused the river to flow and replenish the basin, the trees to be washed clean of red dust, and the grasses to grow lush and green and then…
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