Category: Death
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Sunrise 31/07/2014
Goodbye grandmotherThank you for your loveAnd laughter;We will miss you Beautiful sunrise this morning. My mother and I stayed with my grandfather last night and I took this from his balcony. My grandmother passed away on Tuesday morning. It was a big shock to all of us and very sad but it is a bit of…
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O Christmas Tree
Lights and carols Smiles everywhere But my heart misses you This Christmas Our Christmas tree for this year. We were going to buy a new tree as our old tree broke last year and this spare one is really a bit too small for all our ornaments but as we’re going to be moving soon,…
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Waverley Cemetery Panorama
Stone tombs Looking outOver an endless ocean:They still remember Took this panorama looking out across Waverley Cemetery and the ocean during the Bondi to Bronte beach walk we did last week. It’s a very peaceful spot and one of my favourites along the entire walk; the view is spectacular and I often like to stop…
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Where the Dead Rest
Marble tombs Forgotten by the world: Where the dead rest Forevermore Went to Gosford yesterday to look at a few houses to rent (no luck unfortunately). It was a long drive and on the way back I went for a short walk around Bronte to stretch my legs. I took this photo outside Waverley Cemetery,…
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Lest We Forget
Yesterday was ANZAC Day in Australia and New Zealand, commemorating the Gallipoli landing on April 25, 1915. Of the more than 44,000 Allied deaths at Gallipoli almost 11,000 were ANZACs; over 130,000 soldiers died on both sides… [Read more…]
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I Am
Image: I Am Another You ~ Jeff Robinson I am many things A son, a writer, a boy, a man, a friend I am all those things and I am nothing On myself, I depend I am a memory that will be forgotten I am a face that will fade away I long to be…
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Gone Too Soon
I’m still stunned by the last couple of days. It’s hard to believe we’ve lost two of the most iconic stars of the twentieth century in one day. I’ve been reading the tributes from around the world for both Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett but I think this one by Cathy Babao Guballa captures the…
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These Are the Voyages…
Click here to take the “Which Star Trek character am I?” quiz This is just a quick update as it’s been a while since my last post. To be honest I didn’t realise it had been so long; I’ve had a lot on my mind these last few months and haven’t felt up to blogging…
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One Week Later
Image: Fire in Upper Ferntree Gully ~ jsarcadia This is a follow up to the poem I posted earlier about Black Saturday and the bushfires in Victoria. I wrote the poem as a way of trying to move through the horror I felt in the days following the tragedy. There were so many images, so…
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Dear Clare
I’ve been doing some soul-searching recently. A post by another blogger upset me and I’ve been trying to work out why. It brought up a lot of feelings about a friend who died when I was a child, feelings I thought I had moved past. I was wrong. I think the reason it upset me…