Let Your Heart Be Light
Posted: December 24, 2012 Filed under: LOVE, Self improvement, SONGS, Theme Songs, Thought For the Day | Tags: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas NIght, Judy Garland, Meet Me In St Louis, Merry Christmas 2 CommentsThe silly season is upon us. Hello Santa, Merry Christmas and Happy Channukah. This has been an exhausting, challenging, mad year for many of my loved ones. Peace to all.
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Don’t Give Up
Posted: December 18, 2012 Filed under: LOVE, Self improvement, SONGS, Thought For the Day | Tags: endurance, friendship, Kate Bush, love, Peter Gabriel, resilience 3 CommentsI am blessed to have many beautiful friends in this life. Today two brave friends went through a terrible ordeal and will need to find the strength to overcome vast pain. I am thankful for my beautiful friends and all they have endured. I will be there when you need me
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Everything is disposable except people
Posted: December 11, 2012 Filed under: LOVE, SONGS, Thought For the Day | Tags: beating cancer, Bee Gees, Cancer, friendship, How Can You Mend A Broken Heart, love 3 CommentsA beautiful soul just left the earth too soon. I see too many sweet young souls die in my work life. I hope she is in the arms of the angels. One day cancer will be a bad memory.
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Ah Frankie
Posted: December 2, 2012 Filed under: LOVE, Thought For the Day | Tags: Classic Songs, Frank Sinatra, I've Got A Crush On You, love songs Leave a commentShare this:
The funniest, funnest girl I ever met
Posted: November 29, 2012 Filed under: Birthdays, LOVE, Parenting, Raising Hell, Theme Songs, Thought For the Day | Tags: cheeky monkeys, Cliff Richard, Mike, Neil, November 29 birthdays, Rik, the last freedom moped out of nowhere, Vyvyan, Young Ones 5 CommentsEight years ago today I gave birth to a nutty little monkey. My youngest daughter is going to be a stunt woman, a truck and a punk when she grows up. She shouts and makes me laugh and I couldn’t imagine a peaceful life without her. Happy birthday Miss Zen
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Happy Birthday Anna Mae
Posted: November 26, 2012 Filed under: D.I.V.O.R.C.E, LOVE, MARRIAGE, Parenting, Self improvement, SONGS | Tags: 1939 birthdays, domestic violence, female warriors, November 26 birthdays, role models for girls, Tina Turner birthday, US female singers 1 CommentTina Turner was born today in 1939. She is one of my heroes. When I was a teenager I read Tina Turner’s memoir I, Tina and I was inspired by her strength and resilience. Now I have recovered from my own abusive relationship with the help of a domestic violence counsellor, I realise how strong Tina Turner must have been to withstand regular abuse, be a mother and go on stage acting like nothing had happened for years. She is a role model for women everywhere.
I have learned from reading about Tina’s beatings at the hands of Ike that I must sing my own song, which is part Sinead O’Connor, part Miss Piggy and part Karen Carpenter on crack. Happy Birthday Tina, I love your voice and your spirit
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Día de los Muertos
Posted: November 1, 2012 Filed under: LOVE, Parents, WRITERS | Tags: All Saints Day, All Souls Day, Jack Pollard, los angelitos, mexican holidays, remembering, Sonnet 30, The Day of the Dead, William Shakespeare Leave a commentWhen to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night,
And weep afresh love’s long since cancelled woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o’er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor’d and sorrows end.
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Ah the 70s
Posted: October 15, 2012 Filed under: LOVE, Self improvement, Single, SONGS | Tags: 1970s music, Australian Music, Beeb Birtles, Cheesy Music, Graham Goble, I'm Coming Home, male harmonies Leave a commentThe clothes, the harmonies, the facial hair, the cheesy lyrics, I loved this music as a child in the 70s and tragically I’m still loving it all.
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It Must Be Love
Posted: September 18, 2012 Filed under: LOVE, SONGS | Tags: 1970s music, 1970s Television, David Cassidy, I Think I Love You, Partridge Family, Shirley Jones Leave a commentShare this:
R U OK?
Posted: September 13, 2012 Filed under: AUSTRALIA, LOVE, Self improvement, Thought For the Day | Tags: Gavin Larkin, Gavin Larkin legacy, important events on September 15, National RU OK day, Notable Australians, RU OK, suicide prevention 1 CommentToday is National RU OK? day. Please check on your friends, family, neighbours, loved ones and ask them: Are you OK? Let’s reach out to each other. We are so busy and so disconnected in our modern world. Together we can prevent suicide. If you have a neighbour who lives on their own, a smile and a chat could be what someone needs. I have rung Lifeline in my darkest hour and the woman who answered the phone was brilliant. May the legacy of Gavin Larkin live on and on and spread across the world.
If you need help call Lifeline in Australia: 131144
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