This blog is changing – it came out of a desire to change jobs from one outgrown to one calling like a siren from the rocks. The outcome hasn’t been a sunken ship but the journey away from the rocks where that lilting song resides is far from over. The beauty of that song is [...]
When I was in my 20s I was an ardent drama student – I wanted to be a director in theatre. I got to be that, briefly, on an amateur scale. Google me and you’ll read I produced an Ibsen in my 20s in Brisbane. I also did as many workshops as I could and [...]
Bedrock It means the lowest point or the foundation. Bedrock is what you hit with the spade after all the shit has been shovelled. It’s likely to be what you find just when you are in the mood to plant vegetables! The lowest point means that you caint go no farther down. The foundation is [...]
Today’s itinerary – that is, last Friday’s itinerary – Pick up doctor’s referral for mammogram (due to “abnormality”- how loaded a word and how little explanation or reassurance from the doctor) Walk it over to Health Centre across the road – make appointment for next week earliest Go to town thinking “I’ll just get me [...]
At some point in your life, dear Readers, you are going to feel as if your little tank engine has totally lost its toot! You will feel like your parrot has peeped its last pwark! You’ll read the papers listlessly and look at tragedies on TV and think “I don’t care” or at George Clooney and [...]
There’s a new blog called http://www.childlessmothersconnect.com/ It hadn’t occurred to me before, but a whole bunch of women (incl.me) need a site like this to speak about not having had kids or lost kids and how that feels. I think it’s a wonderful opportunity for some of us to be able to speak openly [...]
Well, I don’t think it’s quite that bad . . . at least not yet! Ageing, if we are blessed to live long lives, is a gradual process. If I went to bed as a 16 year old and woke up as my nearly 66 years, clearly, I might feel a little bit like this [...]
So, why do we women keep hassling ourselves with the notion we’re people and not objects of desire? Why don’t we just accept our place in the scheme of things? I was watching “The Big Heat” with Glenn Ford on Saturday night on ABC2. I hadn’t seen it before but the title had the attraction of a [...]
The real secret to being successful I was reading a blog from Tara Sophia Mohr when I came across the line that has spurred me to write this post – “No one else is going to build the life you want for you.” It is TRUE. Why? Well, no one really cares as much about my life as [...]
Hera! Goddess of Marriage and Birth. She is married to Zeus and, for the sake of their union, she must somehow tolerate his multiple affairs. (So what’s new?) She is a goddess who, therefore, treasures her family and her home above all else. She is jealous and furious because of her husband’s behaviour. She wreaks [...]
I was recently in Melbourne for a couple of days visiting a friend from a million years ago, catching up with each other and meeting the new bloke, old cat and new dog, and generally sighing and laughing on that bridge under which so much water has passed. Now as you know, I read Holocaust [...]
Vipassana is a technique of meditation which you learn over the first 10 day retreat. It isn’t a religion and it doesn’t pretend to be a cult. It is a way of stilling the self and marrying your mind and your body to the present moment. But it’s no good learning it, as I did [...]
Big apologies for missing last week’s post. I was up to my karmic eyeballs in meditating upon my breath very specifically making the little triangle at the bottom of my nose hot and cold. Click on the picture to go to the page and find out about Dhamma Aloka, where I just spent 10 days. [...]
By the time you are reading this post, I will be sitting in a meditation hall along with maybe 100 other sitters trying to sit still and focus on breathing. click on the book to go to Tim Parks’ website I’ll be doing this up to 8 times a day for an hour each time. [...]
In Part 2 of our profile on Maureen Clifford, she decided to get out of a financially-challenging situation by furthering her education. She was a young widow with 2 children who went on to study full-time at a university. In Part 3, she reveals how she rose from Accountancy Graduate to where she is [...]
