Category: life
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New Beginnings
I started a new section in my notebook today. The dividing page read “New Ideas / New Dreams / New Beginnings”. Now I’m not usually one for inspirational quotes (Ok, obviously I am or I wouldn’t have bought that notebook) but it’s so appropriate to my life right now I just had to share. For…
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The Eye of the Sheep – Sofie Laguna
“He came close, bent down, put his arms around me and he cried and so did I, so did I, and I knew where crying was made; it was made in me.” Date Completed: May 3 2016 Page Length: 308 Goodreads This book was compelling. I think that’s the best way to describe it. It’s a page…
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Tree Change
I’m not a world weary traveller. I’ve only been overseas three times in my 27 years (New Zealand, North America and Italy) but I have lived several different places along the east coast of Australia (and one place in America). Boston , MA, USA Birth place Duration: < 1 yr Population: 645, 966 Capital City…
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My Hair, My Self
I had imagined, on many occasions, cutting my own hair. I would take the lot of it in my left fist as if to make a side pony-tail, a pair of large strong scissors would glint in my right hand and I’d slice through. I would do it in one slow movement, watching each strand…
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The Joy of Sleeping In
I’m trying to be more positive. That’s a sentence that’s probably been written a million times (often as an intro to some thinly veiled complaining. Hopefully I don’t follow that route). I recently began reading Caitlin Moran’s collection of Essays, Moranthology. Towards the end of her introduction she wrote that her “underlying, abiding belief is…