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the half empty or half full cup of ‘what ifs’

by Claudia on August 20, 2022

😞 What if tomorrow the sun disappears and everything goes black as black? What if your insides turn on you and slowly take you away? What if you choose wrong… [Continue Reading]

dance this chance

by Claudia on June 17, 2022

what a dance, this chance, these two butterflies floating and exploring tentatively side by side, fluttering in the sunshine between leaves and petals and floating on the breeze where the… [Continue Reading]

the Age of Rage

by Claudia on June 5, 2022

2018, my first day back in the country. Banora Point, Tweed Coast. The lights turn green and I accelerate around the bend towards the on-ramp to the M1. When I… [Continue Reading]

that heartless thing insomnia

by Claudia on October 6, 2021

both of them slept on my left, back when. and ever since then, at the end of each day when I flick the switch to turn on the dark, that… [Continue Reading]

Childhood Amnesia – a thousand days forgotten forever

by Claudia on September 12, 2021

“All that we ourselves are has been made by the child, by the child we were in the first two years of our lives.” Maria Montessori Elwyn loves to run…. [Continue Reading]

Changing the world one pony, and child, at a time

by Claudia on May 28, 2021May 30, 2022

It’s hard to teach old dogs new tricks, right? Even more so if there’s big odds stacked against you. Odds like culture, religion, superstition, tradition, poor education and poverty. Horses… [Continue Reading]

Mysterious Ways

by Claudia on May 6, 2021May 10, 2021

‘Life is a balance of holding on and letting go’ It was October 2014. One month after Harley, the man that I loved, had taken his own life. I was… [Continue Reading]

The magic of human touch – 9 random special memories

by Claudia on April 11, 2021

~ Reach out and touch, somebody’s hand, make this world a better place, if you can ~ 1 Play Not long after my family moved to Australia, I became friends… [Continue Reading]

Numbers

by Claudia on February 18, 2021

  Today 15 thousand people – and counting – became so hungry they starved and died. Today a thousand people – and counting – simply got sick from unclean water… [Continue Reading]

Sunshine Wine

by Claudia on February 18, 2021

The white-capped hills around me, silver in the sun, were exotic. Romantic even, to my eye. I heard the woolly sheep in the green fields become silent when they stopped… [Continue Reading]

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