Category: Life
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Friday Thoughts #6
From the Red Hand Files: If we do not attend to the work of projecting delight upon the world, what are we actually doing? If we do not look for joy, search for it, reach deep for it, what are we saying about the world? Are we saying that malevolence is the routine stuff of…
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Australia Day 2023
Today is Australia Day. The holiday is a contested one. Each city has Invasion Day rallies, and some companies gave their employees a choice as to whether they had it off. Many people, myself included, are unsure what to do with it. There are many opinions about which way to go, but there are no…
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Friday Thoughts #5
From the comments on my post, email seems to cause angst to many people. I mentioned in my post that one of my strategies was to move the backlog of unread newsletters out of my inbox and into a newsletter folder. Oliver Burkeman, in his newsletter this week, recommends this tactic for any backlog. First,…
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Grrr, Australia Post …
Part of our garden plans involved moving the Lillypillys along our east boundary to the front fence line and replacing them with various citrus. Before Christmas, I moved all the Lillypillys and planted a lime, lemon and mandarin in their place. Still, I wanted a wider variety of citrus than our local nursery carried, so…
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2023 Intentions
I have a running list I call my ultimate list, with things I want (or need) to do. Not the things that need doing immediately, but all those other things. When I add something I put the year next to it. When it’s done I mark it complete and put the year next to when…
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Friday Thoughts #4
Christmas was at our place this year. We had 16 people, and since it was a warm day, we had ten people sitting at our table inside and six outside with wide open doors. A sea breeze blowing through the courtyard and an umbrella kept things pleasant in the 30C heat. We were responsible for…
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Friday Thoughts #3
I finished my Christmas shopping this morning and cleared off all my work this afternoon. I now have a pot of soup on the stove. I threw all the veggies in the fridge into the pot with some water, and I think I’ll add some mung beans; I can freeze the extra soup for Hubby…
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Friday Thoughts #2
We’ve finished watching Wednesday. We loved this show. That look she has before she does or says something outrageous … made me laugh out loud every time. I think our middle daughter will love this. Wednesday will probably be her hero. Unfortunately, we couldn’t watch it with her because a) she moved out of home…
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Friday Thoughts #1
A post about my week. Random thoughts and things that are happening. I’m progressing through the unpacking; most of the boxes are unpacked. Today’s project is the laundry. I’m hoping to get everything off the bench and into the cupboards. After that, the pantry. Everything is in but not in any sensible order. This Sunday,…