May the Fourth be with you
Posted: May 4, 2014 Filed under: Thought For the Day | Tags: 70s childhood, feminist space heroes, hair donuts, Luke Skywalker, May 4, May the 4th be with you, May the fourth be with you, Princess Leia, single mother dreaming, single mothers must use the force, Star Wars - Help me Obi Wan Kenobi you're my only hope, Star Wars silliness Leave a commentLong, long ago in a far, far away galaxy called my delinquent childhood, I wanted to be an outer space princess. My best friend’s dad took us to see the Star Wars fillum when it was first released at the beautiful State Theatre in Sydney. Most 70s movies were a complete cockfest but this movie had our feminist heroine Princess Leia fighting the blokes while rocking a Grecian gown and sporting hair donuts that all of us gals copied immediately for school the following week. Now when I am exhausted and my children are screaming at each other I mutter, ‘Help me Obi Wan Kenobi, you’re my only hope.” May the force be with you…..
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Like a King
Posted: January 21, 2014 Filed under: Thought For the Day | Tags: Ben Harper - Like A King and I'll Rise, Coretta Scott King, Dr. Martin Luther King Junior, gratitude, hope for the future, incredible people, inspirational humans, love for humanity, Martin Luther King Jr Day, thank you, Thank you Doctor King Leave a comment“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Blatant vulgar sexual frenzy
Posted: January 8, 2014 Filed under: SONGS, Thought For the Day | Tags: A soda bottle in Presley's trousers, aggressively bisexual, Elvis Aaron Presley, In The Ghetto, January 8 1935, January 8 birthdays, The King Leave a commentIn his Presley obituary, Lester Bangs, credited Elvis as “the man who brought overt blatant vulgar sexual frenzy to the popular arts in America.”
Elvis would have been 79 today. This is my favourite Elvis song. I love the backing vocals and the lyrics. And his jumpsuit, how can anyone not love Elvis’ outfits?
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Sleep in heavenly peace
Posted: December 24, 2013 Filed under: SONGS, Thought For the Day | Tags: be merry, Christmas carols, Christmas cheer, Christmas Eve, Christmas Songs, drink, eat, Felice Navidad, gifts, giving, Holy night Batman, Joyeux Noel, presents for single mothers, reindeer, reindeers on the roof, Santa, Santa in his sleigh, Santa stop here, Santa wants to come down the chimney but it's blocked, Silent NIght, Sinead O'Connor, Tis the season to be greedy Leave a commentOf course Santa is having a happy Christmas, he knows where all the naughty people live and he gets to party with them. I hope when Santa drops down my chimney that he is good looking and he finds out I’ve been naughty and my children have been nice. Merry Christmas, here come the reindeer.
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I promised I would write about him some day
Posted: November 7, 2013 Filed under: Thought For the Day Leave a commentA brilliant story
I decided I would walk back to my Hotel that day, even though I had spent all day and most of my money shopping and my shoulders were aching from the weight of the bags. Flagging down a tuk-tuk would made the trip quick and easy and with the unbearable heat rising up from the sidewalk and bouncing off the city walls and radiating down from above it is a wonder I chose to walk that day but at the time I decided that I would like to wander through the alley ways and stalls and nod my head in greeting to the people of Sukhumvit Road and thats all it was at the time. But it is only in retrospect that we see the significance of seemingly small decisions such as these. We don’t realise how our preferences, no matter how small, act as the fingers and the palms and…
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All Hallows Eve
Posted: October 31, 2013 Filed under: Thought For the Day | Tags: All hallows Eve, ancestors, Beetlejuice Day-O (Banana Boat song), ghosts, ghouls, halloween, Halloween traditions, I see dead people, messages from the other side, spirit world, Tim Burton films, trick or treat 2 CommentsThe veil between our realm and the spirit world is very thin tonight. So we can all dress up like ghouls and blow a kiss to our ancestors.
I think children like to be scared a little in childhood to help them learn to manage their fears and develop the strength they will need in adulthood. My youngest daughter loves cemeteries like me. We often wander through our local grave yard talking about the families buried there and how children her age frequently died 150 years ago. We’ll go trick or treating in the same street as our local cemetery. Call me crazy, but I’ll be looking out for signs from my dad tonight. I think he may drop by.
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I am a teenage dirtbag, aren’t I?
Posted: September 19, 2013 Filed under: Birthdays, Single, Single Motherhood, Thought For the Day | Tags: George Cadbury birthday, happy birthday to me, I'm just a teenage dirtbag, International Talk Like A Pirate Day, Lou Pollard birthday, Mama Cass birthday, September 19 birthdays, Twiggy birthday, Virgo, Wheatus 4 CommentsHappy birthday to me. Kooky single mother clown comedy writer. Please give generously or small children may go without food, and my poor, long-suffering teenager may grow up deprived of designer clothes and shoes. Apparently I’m supposed to starve to pay for everything.
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Maybe we’ll grow
Posted: September 12, 2013 Filed under: Birthdays, Thought For the Day | Tags: best friends for life, Bonne Anniversaire, John Legend - Ordinary People Leave a commentJoyeux anniversaire a mon cher ami
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undead
Posted: August 20, 2013 Filed under: Thought For the Day | Tags: angel of death, beautiful cemeteries, fascination with death, gravestones, history, I see dead people, mortality, Nick Cave featuring PJ Harvey– ‘Henry Lee’, old cemeteries, scenic cemeteries, stories from beyond the grave 4 CommentsOne of my friends said,
“You have a morbid fascination with death. You have so many stories of death and people close to you dying.” Actually he said, “You are the angel of death,” but I don’t fear death and I don’t think it’s morbid. I work in hospitals with kids who may die and observing parents coping with their worst fear strengthens my gratitude for my three healthy kids. Life and death walk hand in hand, two sides of the same coin, my fascination with death is a part of living well. And I know I will be old and ready for it when my time comes. I’ve got too much to do in this life to die young.
I love cemeteries, I could walk in them for hours looking at the headstones and wondering how people lived. I’m lucky I live right near one of the most beautiful cemeteries in Sydney. I love old graves. Walking around reading the inscriptions I’m reminded as a mother that only a hundred years ago mothers lived with the ever present thought that they should have lots of children as many little kids under five didn’t survive.
My dad’s been dead for 11 years and I’m certain he’s around me all the time.
beautiful cemetery
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He hasn’t really left the building
Posted: August 16, 2013 Filed under: Theme Songs, Thought For the Day | Tags: August 16 1977, August 16 deaths, Elvis Aaron Presley, Elvis Presley - If I Can Dream, favourite singers, he looks good in leather, one day I'm going to Graceland, songs to live by, The Gospel according to Elvis, The King Leave a commentThe King died today in 1977. I loved his look, his white jumpsuits, his hair, his sneer, his pelvis, his fetish for deep-fried peanut butter sandwiches and his music. He may well have been my ideal man. His golden voice lives on forever in the drama of his high camp songs. I love you Elvis.
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