My suburb boasts many conveniences and beauty of green hills and wilderness surrounds Shops, a railway line, easy transport, lagoons and playgrounds It seems mostly peaceful, mostly pleasant The short conversations I share as I journey alongside those who live around me mostly boost my soul Baristers, other parents dropping and picking up children from … Read More
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Phoenix – a place of rejuvenation, endings and new beginnings
My experience is that Phoenix is a place that offers rest. It was a place of pause. A place I really need. I was tired with my grief. In Phoenix I was rejuvenated my American self and adventure was born.
The five emotional stages of my experience of contracting coronavirus
the five emotional stages of contracting coronavirus
San Diego: A successful set-up by a mutual friend
Before we take up again at where I last left off on my travel adventure romance in the United States it’s important to flash back to where I had been in my life about a year prior. Almost exactly a year before my travels stateside I had taken a holiday to Fiji by myself. I … Read More
My actual CV – The things I discount that I have achieved in the last six or so years
So I have always had the terrible habit of comparing myself to others. I have been doing this recently. You see I’m not 100% happy with where I am at in my career and I am spending a little bit of time on LinkedIn where I inevitably encounter the profile of someone whom I used … Read More
What is the way through the fog of motherhood?
I’ve lately been struggling with a Mum fog. I’m not sure if you’ve had this same fog? It’s the feeling like you are existing in a fog, not able to see out of it and not able to see who you are clearly within it. Perhaps the fog is also existing within me. I am … Read More
White waves and living water
Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” There are so many parts of the Old and New Testaments that refer to water and use it to describe God and … Read More
Los Angeles: A once in a lifetime trip to the Coffee Bean and two lives changed forever
LAX Kathump. That was the first sound I heard the first time I landed in Los Angeles. I had just awoken from a deep sleep. My head had been firmly resting against the window of an economy seat of a Boeing 747. Thick white clouds were all I had seen after waking and I had … Read More
Remembering being loved by Philadelphia – the city of brotherly love
My first days in the USA after moving there for an indefinite amount of time to pursue love were spent in Philadelphia. It was a city I knew only a little about but one that in the few months that followed I grew to love. Philadelphia, I learned, was a city devoid of pretence. Its … Read More
Dad’s resurrecting tree
I have always found that when someone dies there are often uncanny occurrences that happen afterwards. I have found this especially so in the first couple of days to weeks after they pass. Someone once told me those that have passed on wish to let those left behind know that they are okay – often … Read More