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]
Tag: simple little things
the Age of Rage
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
“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
~ 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
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
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
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
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)
“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)
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]