Recently it was Reconciliation Week in Australia. And it began with National Sorry Day, the day we recognise the Stolen Generation. But the day, and the week, came and went without mention. It was different to other years. Perhaps everyone was preoccupied with COVID19. Perhaps. Not so with ANZAC Day the month before. There was […]
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‘Authentic’ seems to be a bit of a buzz word lately. But what does it really mean? Does anyone know how to be authentic? Do we really want it and do we honestly respect it when we see it? I often define Authentic as Being Real. It’s a ‘What you see is what you get’
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I’ve been asked, by more than one person, why I’ve been so vocal on Social Media lately about identity, culture, and black lives mattering. The short answer is, Because I’ve been hurting. At first I thought the hurt came from Empathy, in response to the stories of my Indigenous and African brothers and sisters. But
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As I straddled the window that Friday night, one foot inside and one in the garden, alarm blaring behind me and my Daihatsu Charade as a getaway car parked in the back parking lot, it occurred to me that I had a lot of explaining to do should the police arrive. When you spend a large
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Max has been an important part of our family for over 11 years. He loves laying in the sunshine, walkies, sitting on my fluffy slippers, begging for scraps at my feet while I cook, eating the cat’s food, having his tummy tickled, watching movies with the family and he longs for Molly the cat to
When hubby came home late in 2018 with the news that he’d booked long service leave, we already had a good idea of where we would go. After all, we’d only been talking about it for nearly 30 years. The biggest difficulty back then was in narrowing down our itinerary. Hubby had no overseas travel
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October 20 1988 was the beginning of my journey of dealing with the death of a parent. We were woken with the words Your father wants you to know that he loves you and he is very very proud of you. And so began the longest day of my life. A day that visited our
Recently we were reminiscing with friends as we pored over old photos and videos of our shared antics pre kids. Looking at those photos and watching the younger versions of ourselves in the videos got me thinking about the first few months after we were married. We were living in a small town and one
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I live by an Abundance Mentality and for the most part this has served me well; the belief that there is enough for everyone on the planet. However, this belief has been seriously challenged in recent weeks by those who live by a Scarcity Mentality, and I’m fast coming to the conclusion that an Abundance
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My babies were little when September 11 happened. Hubby and I did our best to shield them, but our best was not enough for the constant barrage of images and stories coming through the TV and radio. Nothing was sacred, not even Children’s shows, with interruptions and live updates every 15 minutes. So we declared
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