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Tag: life

Life, and animal sanctuaries

Posted on July 11, 2022 by Sarah

I wake up to the light of the day peaking in behind the blinds. My sheets, needing a change, are all crumpled up beneath me. I reach over for my phone, 9.08am. Dave pops his head in. “Are you keen to go to Healesville?” I smile, and nod. Truth be told I would probably opt…

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Horace and the train trip to death

Posted on October 20, 2016March 21, 2022 by Sarah

I’m on the 2:30 train to Cranbourne. I’ve just met a new friend, Jane, in Melbourne where we spent three lovely hours wandering around the Art of Banksy exhibition followed by a wonderful lunch at Dymocks bookshop. I had vegan shepherds pie accompanied by ginger & lemon tea. I’m feeling tired but also a little…

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The rambling recesses of my mind

Posted on September 15, 2016March 21, 2022 by Sarah

I’ve been going through a thing. And it has been so hard to talk about, to compartmentalise, to rationalise, indeed to live. The thing itself has been harrowing enough, but it is the soul reaching thoughts and feelings that have left me reeling. Mr C and I were watching TV the other night; sometimes I…

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View from a bed

Posted on May 12, 2016 by Sarah

I’m in bed.  Recuperating from a hysterectomy. I have a way of downplaying things that happen to me.  I tend to speak about seemingly big things like they aren’t big things at all.  I think if I do this I am in effect minimising the magnitude of what has happened to me. I downplayed my…

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Bearing witness to death is bearing witness to life

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Sarah

The last two weeks have passed in a blur; acceptance into university, preparations for Master J as he enters his last ever year of high school and assisting my mother and father-in-law as they prepare for the end of her life. She isn’t dead.  And it is likely that she will live a number of…

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Happily demented – life, love, connections and no memory

Posted on January 12, 2016 by Sarah

I’ve been rethinking things. This week has been difficult.  For me, but for my extended family most of all. One of our family members has advanced Alzheimers and after 54 years of marriage, the very very difficult decision has been made to finally place her, gently, in a home. Being a carer takes so much…

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On reflection

Posted on January 2, 2016 by Sarah

I hug my dad tightly and as I do, tears spring to my eyes. This takes me completely by surprise. In the past, our relationship has been fraught.  I have never been able to admit it before, but he and I are so very much alike.  Opinionated, hot headed, kind, passionate.  We have clashed because…

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The unchartered road to finding our bravery

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Sarah

When I was a child, despite my turbulent and chaotic homelife, I believe I was somewhat brave. When I was 8, my mom would get me to sing “Scarborough Fair” in front of her friends because she loved my voice so much.  I would also sing “Amazing Grace”, a song she loved so much that…

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The chrysalis of life

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Sarah

I’m undergoing a change. It’s been an awfully long time coming.  Slow, like a snail, gliding, unfurling and expanding inside my brain. It feels like I have been in a chrysalis for so long now. As I break my way to the surface, I find myself unsteady, wobbly even, with my new emerging wings. It…

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I DO NOT LIKE THE COLD

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Sarah

Our heating conked out this morning. My mom always used to say that you can always judge the character of a person by the way they dealt with things going wrong in their life. My character is pants. I do not like the cold. At.  All. Which is weird because I live in Melbourne.  And…

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