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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]

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]

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]

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]

Home

by Claudia on December 15, 2020

what is it about the ocean that fills my lungs and has my back and soothes my eyes and cushions my feet, and lifts my chin and eases my mind… [Continue Reading]

Honouring the melancholy

by Claudia on December 15, 2020December 15, 2020

honouring the melancholy melancholy inhabits every cell and organelle beneath this skin it tugs and stretches breaks and wrinkles and sags   (honouring the cheerfulness: with sunshine to botox and… [Continue Reading]

Cold Feet

by Claudia on May 17, 2020May 17, 2020

  If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading Lao Tzu   It’s a long road that has no turning (from an old Irish… [Continue Reading]

When the going gets tough, the tough get cooking (Coronavirus blog-story #2)

by Claudia on April 17, 2020

“I told you something like this would happen!” Ayu whispered to her colleagues. One of her friends shushed her. It wasn’t in their culture to question or complain or even… [Continue Reading]

This Ain’t No Walk In The Park (Coronavirus blog-story #1)

by Claudia on April 10, 2020April 16, 2020

Dylan stomped his feet and wriggled so much that Sharon took twice as long as normal to put his sandals on.  “Wait up little man, please stop moving,” she pleaded…. [Continue Reading]

Three little things to help us while we Stay At Home

by Claudia on March 31, 2020

So we find ourselves now living in a time of chaotic isolation. Or isolated chaos. A friend said to me today that maybe introverts are happy as pigs in clover!… [Continue Reading]

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