tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91706245243972612372024-03-19T00:15:02.837-07:00WilderRants on writing, motherhood, childhood, various obsessions, neurodiversity, and ungraciously living in exile in The Hot Place. (Otherwise known as Queensland.) With photos. kirstyrosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282465629949382550noreply@blogger.comBlogger901125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170624524397261237.post-12646723506077953932023-07-19T20:27:00.000-07:002023-07-19T20:27:23.835-07:00Swans<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkNT5sNDHEzDpl3qsXOnw3uqhyaf8y7TYMbn6TkAVdnL6P4qbnwHiy8-m9Dz8KOu8--4amjIXR8MOHgen1SvkxEf0txzs16Oni92wLfp-3sk7osxWZh_ErlCAXHOMH8CKg6lzsdHZGmAZA074sQKtjXzOOTvFBFJM_JZ5GQwyLko1BGPE30eEdD_5Y-MM/s5472/swan_5920.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkNT5sNDHEzDpl3qsXOnw3uqhyaf8y7TYMbn6TkAVdnL6P4qbnwHiy8-m9Dz8KOu8--4amjIXR8MOHgen1SvkxEf0txzs16Oni92wLfp-3sk7osxWZh_ErlCAXHOMH8CKg6lzsdHZGmAZA074sQKtjXzOOTvFBFJM_JZ5GQwyLko1BGPE30eEdD_5Y-MM/w640-h426/swan_5920.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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This is supposed to beWINTER) the lack of rain means the garden is parched and the streams are low or the beds are dry. </p><p>But the trickle of water through the smoothed river rocks can even calm (momentarily) the ire of a Melbournian cruelly denied a proper winter. </p><p>The water, undisturbed by rain, is clear and the play of light and water on the rocks soothes and rejuvenates. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqraH73ibwTg33tP1bxkr_KEFxKLtZd1fHzSS1WADK5Kv7iYlWw9rx2Tfj_yKBIggAFaqsxZzT2YE2O2psDPoXpJ4KgJY1UVbUlLAvwefF2WmE4L2cXTfjcq1BbTF2Bo8sQxzJ7v1Ik8Nck1QEUzE8DnggvH1VjXW-unOVh0LU2NK8ZAiuWaQWMhFnIRY/s5472/stream_6626.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqraH73ibwTg33tP1bxkr_KEFxKLtZd1fHzSS1WADK5Kv7iYlWw9rx2Tfj_yKBIggAFaqsxZzT2YE2O2psDPoXpJ4KgJY1UVbUlLAvwefF2WmE4L2cXTfjcq1BbTF2Bo8sQxzJ7v1Ik8Nck1QEUzE8DnggvH1VjXW-unOVh0LU2NK8ZAiuWaQWMhFnIRY/w640-h426/stream_6626.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p>kirstyrosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282465629949382550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170624524397261237.post-39009655950945626672023-06-28T17:43:00.001-07:002023-06-28T17:43:21.368-07:00Outside & Green<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji4ux62BRkMZ4mh4atVbOL2D8sfduQ_aDGYGCKBTGDRTRuwpClRcYUhH2eEf4QfE-uBNbhgdir8doDQoiEgXvyjTyppj266cLudB7bRrPFKQ6kd8DzxRboYe6Q-wI2rcfDNcgyhy2pIFPeG46yYVOfcdYvieVAtrrVannyX_OeZzGbN9q_pVxSQrf7pX0/s5472/blogforest_6237.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji4ux62BRkMZ4mh4atVbOL2D8sfduQ_aDGYGCKBTGDRTRuwpClRcYUhH2eEf4QfE-uBNbhgdir8doDQoiEgXvyjTyppj266cLudB7bRrPFKQ6kd8DzxRboYe6Q-wI2rcfDNcgyhy2pIFPeG46yYVOfcdYvieVAtrrVannyX_OeZzGbN9q_pVxSQrf7pX0/w640-h426/blogforest_6237.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>We have been sick forever and ever and ever. </p><p>One of my daughters showed me a big gob of green snot this morning and was snuffling more snot; my youngest have been taking turns wheezing all night and my son tells me chicken tastes like egg and salami tastes like strawberry, so I'm thinking this last cold was/is probably covid. (Also, someone at my husband's work has covid, although he's also been coughed on by flu vectors as well - so hey, take a number, any number - they all lead to Sick.) </p><p>The kids are over it and I am over it and while I've ruled out the playground as it seems antisocial to get snot all over the playground so other families can experience the joys, we can't stay inside all the time.</p><p>So we went to the bush. And the green (of the non-snot variety) did everything it was supposed to. </p><p>Soothing, rejuvenating, reminding me the sickness can't last forever. (I mean, I know it can, but the green makes me believe it will come to an end. </p><p>Moss. Filterered sunlight. </p><p>The kids ran and played and fractiously whined and the world was good. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit3dXfHuD-IkDOc6fxThJsGrRvMnO00OA7ASszGqMHMbrLv_QX-4u8UEV5j5LqC4ZmuArISI-70EV4fG0UYn3eo7D701cDomuigwwOeB-CNbK-dSRjDNZMbF9sl2qK1G_FfSoadDQ9hhppescIJiaGepCVAlRmWmO0zHdWKdVM4BjNjWIQKg1oVL-8iCc/s5472/bloggreen_6460.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit3dXfHuD-IkDOc6fxThJsGrRvMnO00OA7ASszGqMHMbrLv_QX-4u8UEV5j5LqC4ZmuArISI-70EV4fG0UYn3eo7D701cDomuigwwOeB-CNbK-dSRjDNZMbF9sl2qK1G_FfSoadDQ9hhppescIJiaGepCVAlRmWmO0zHdWKdVM4BjNjWIQKg1oVL-8iCc/w640-h426/bloggreen_6460.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu1_eUFFBjavxCTIXTW5W9uhm-Wykq_UbtHlpzZokuTabgf0rVALzE1l6H4KK30hpY03XukWNO8st_y8LxGwDDYqxV56Z5-Bb3UtSvBTVtSZZvW6lR4T31tesh4q3yjbZ3H_w71bo7-wObMquF5_ASa_vetIagmYpzcDOHwtbq4F27mPNFn5IKSPi4KrI/s3083/forest%20floor_6307.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2010" data-original-width="3083" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu1_eUFFBjavxCTIXTW5W9uhm-Wykq_UbtHlpzZokuTabgf0rVALzE1l6H4KK30hpY03XukWNO8st_y8LxGwDDYqxV56Z5-Bb3UtSvBTVtSZZvW6lR4T31tesh4q3yjbZ3H_w71bo7-wObMquF5_ASa_vetIagmYpzcDOHwtbq4F27mPNFn5IKSPi4KrI/w640-h418/forest%20floor_6307.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>kirstyrosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282465629949382550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170624524397261237.post-90438900942610383762023-03-22T20:30:00.002-07:002023-04-16T20:59:15.609-07:00Rain Morning<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxorKO6KjyVxuqR9L6P3SqkBSoX-mzgZU56qqjxbqlpvJcv1dNfl4dHNLw6UgxboyfXTqKnqzLNYBpz6DKIWoxARLOby2HbG6XbCmVljtKx9h_UJLuoeapQWKeoDRX5r-NIc4fXuWfpw3z_idqYHABm853mJpWVDK2P68DYVZgU1FP0wegydTuFv2A/s5472/raindrop_4373.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxorKO6KjyVxuqR9L6P3SqkBSoX-mzgZU56qqjxbqlpvJcv1dNfl4dHNLw6UgxboyfXTqKnqzLNYBpz6DKIWoxARLOby2HbG6XbCmVljtKx9h_UJLuoeapQWKeoDRX5r-NIc4fXuWfpw3z_idqYHABm853mJpWVDK2P68DYVZgU1FP0wegydTuFv2A/w640-h426/raindrop_4373.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Staying by shore, the rain woke me in the early morning, and once it stopped I took the dogs through the winding path to the shore. The trees here astound me - so deeply green, and yet they grow in sand. <div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqmGXDpsmoElpdHcA3mSxV1kWfBe0NcBy34bsG01VW_IYkSn-L_GERdFxnx9RpJ1XV723-_1O_vz3XKu0G8l9e18UOuvJ26SN_yVcrinAl6NTQHygopyMh4L_lH3jm9dU6mp7NkY1M5zfI4PAko_PSg3xUeO79gzCA0u3YIo3UKFeKwNAmLwhJJ2L5/s5472/moss_4404.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqmGXDpsmoElpdHcA3mSxV1kWfBe0NcBy34bsG01VW_IYkSn-L_GERdFxnx9RpJ1XV723-_1O_vz3XKu0G8l9e18UOuvJ26SN_yVcrinAl6NTQHygopyMh4L_lH3jm9dU6mp7NkY1M5zfI4PAko_PSg3xUeO79gzCA0u3YIo3UKFeKwNAmLwhJJ2L5/w640-h426/moss_4404.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5lY857JjTGZBJrwvnhxsqUYSxxdM6Q5qs6rRr64jWmIwTVgj9FanNC3pAUQHK20_TFb1my_bFuYEVSarW859bG3-SLTmq6ulTMcMqVoJfHyzCMMjlL_6QeXspXjXFxwQMvdVeDX4JX_ky9CwrH1Tuk7PWOcXfja1rpknVQz4ztuWzdLS7ilWryvEP/s4966/liana_4387.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3334" data-original-width="4966" height="430" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5lY857JjTGZBJrwvnhxsqUYSxxdM6Q5qs6rRr64jWmIwTVgj9FanNC3pAUQHK20_TFb1my_bFuYEVSarW859bG3-SLTmq6ulTMcMqVoJfHyzCMMjlL_6QeXspXjXFxwQMvdVeDX4JX_ky9CwrH1Tuk7PWOcXfja1rpknVQz4ztuWzdLS7ilWryvEP/w640-h430/liana_4387.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p></div>kirstyrosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282465629949382550noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170624524397261237.post-52695678583325544722023-03-22T20:23:00.002-07:002023-04-16T21:01:31.673-07:00Storm Shore & Ocean Hounds<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVKHUntQuP8EIzypvygzUHWRE5sW1mu_hEesMpdLRcak3P-sC_pgJMcjSr7QsBT0XS92LUXEApn39u-dgDOSxVaS00XOCmCfBvlySwesX_ItCFy5W_PM_8fSp-OWApIH6onEXMQCC76II5sIfV0qMjNBqgo8swYsQn73bYDlhupeJdfLKeCLK4cLTy/s5472/shorelineblog_4680.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVKHUntQuP8EIzypvygzUHWRE5sW1mu_hEesMpdLRcak3P-sC_pgJMcjSr7QsBT0XS92LUXEApn39u-dgDOSxVaS00XOCmCfBvlySwesX_ItCFy5W_PM_8fSp-OWApIH6onEXMQCC76II5sIfV0qMjNBqgo8swYsQn73bYDlhupeJdfLKeCLK4cLTy/w640-h426/shorelineblog_4680.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p>We had a beautiful few days escape at the beach this last weekend, with much anticipated relatives briefly visiting from the UK. It was wonderful seeing my cousin, who I haven't seen since she was in her teens and I was just beginning my 30s. She's now the most gorgeous young twenties traveling with her equally delightful partner and it was so lovely catching up. </p><p>And it was wonderful staying by the sea in my most favourite pocket of Queensland ocean. </p><p>My dogs - the best behaved of my children - also loved it. We've been beset with one illness after another for what seems like forever, so this is the first time they've had a run in far too long. 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text-align: center;"><i>It's just the way life changes, like the shorelines of the sea</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">Hey, that's no way to Say Goodbye</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;">Leonard Cohen</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Each time we visit, the shoreline has changed a little. Each time we visit there is something new, and something missing. The last time I was on the beach at home, the back beach was covered in a flotilla of washed up By the Wind Sailors. I had never seen so many before, and was entranced with how they took in the light. By the second day many had dried out and shrivelled with the sun, but in the evening there were still many that still had their shape and colour. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP6_9tPWcqxr0G7PKN1P4WYBiAU-4JdNNIzFx1I9TytmXDIIADDvuZVv2uY54Gc4RJANW3_R4zU4iBcogHIXijk7WpzAC-PuqClOYx_edB6vW5LSMVQoEArb_fDChE8wvwK7ptdTr0_CG4yjo-X3BXCX0igkzKL5G9xgG2jESGlVT6qUMQ0R015R-9/s5472/bythewind_9627.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP6_9tPWcqxr0G7PKN1P4WYBiAU-4JdNNIzFx1I9TytmXDIIADDvuZVv2uY54Gc4RJANW3_R4zU4iBcogHIXijk7WpzAC-PuqClOYx_edB6vW5LSMVQoEArb_fDChE8wvwK7ptdTr0_CG4yjo-X3BXCX0igkzKL5G9xgG2jESGlVT6qUMQ0R015R-9/w640-h426/bythewind_9627.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBNY2K_CNxU52j3afEa7GchNqWFlzgq2YO7HJGXoMIPVd3n0NNN3YK0qncxKH4vuEzQCkIEtn6leriShi4WJGRYlo_eA_ftfRXCSR6YsAESlomiZ1U7lAAnMpyzHsjTszAwNL5xzrd1436H-4HVHernzBGmAc483zBJtFtw7Bd4asB0Qy9zO2K0Gi8/s5472/bythewind_9634.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBNY2K_CNxU52j3afEa7GchNqWFlzgq2YO7HJGXoMIPVd3n0NNN3YK0qncxKH4vuEzQCkIEtn6leriShi4WJGRYlo_eA_ftfRXCSR6YsAESlomiZ1U7lAAnMpyzHsjTszAwNL5xzrd1436H-4HVHernzBGmAc483zBJtFtw7Bd4asB0Qy9zO2K0Gi8/w640-h426/bythewind_9634.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>kirstyrosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282465629949382550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170624524397261237.post-40836977591424872272023-02-15T16:52:00.002-08:002023-04-16T20:55:44.463-07:00Anti-Co-ordinated<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjhl5Ca1j3FJhIiXZlIQLaDHsPj-Lcp29X5ePwdtqD5pSllXnI1F_M79bEtC3T3DjqS1rVHA3VWCm6PwgZw6revuxz8BzV6kdeb33TBk_XwgguNeeDnQOyklE9tKExxm7uMUr06s6psrQiBCx_RgA6ky3UsDob_B8xCxQkXB7lGj8gBhMyUGK_5clR/s2835/IMG_5411.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1656" data-original-width="2835" height="374" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjhl5Ca1j3FJhIiXZlIQLaDHsPj-Lcp29X5ePwdtqD5pSllXnI1F_M79bEtC3T3DjqS1rVHA3VWCm6PwgZw6revuxz8BzV6kdeb33TBk_XwgguNeeDnQOyklE9tKExxm7uMUr06s6psrQiBCx_RgA6ky3UsDob_B8xCxQkXB7lGj8gBhMyUGK_5clR/w640-h374/IMG_5411.heic" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Return to the nineties (I know, why would anyone want to?) </p><p>But return to the nineties, and there's a moment caught in my mind. </p><p>It's an ordinary moment but I remember being happy in it. Not wanting to forget it. </p><p>I've just got off the train at the station nearest my home, and I'm running along the pavement under the old oak tree just before the level crossing. It's winter - the sky is grey, rain is hitting my face, deliciously cold and brisk. All the air is rich with the smells of winter - woodsmoke, wet earth, decaying leaves. </p><p>I'm running, my feet coming down heavily, my schoolbag, overladen with books, weighty as it jolts on my back. I'm wearing my school uniform: heavy dark blue blazer, disgusting synthetic-y pale yellow shirt, heavy woollen mock-tartan skirt, grey tights and t-bar school shoes. </p><p>I'm in my last years of high school and have finally dumped (with glee and relish) maths, P.E, music. My subjects are all art and humanities: art, literature, history, religion: stories about people and places and why the world is the way it is. </p><p>One of the pockets of my blazer has started falling off, there loose thread unravelling. The hem of my skirt has also started falling down. There is a hole in my tights. There is paint on my blazer and another red blob that is very possibly tomato sauce on the sleeve. There are pen marks on the cuff of my shirt. There are paint splatters on my school shoes. At some stage I have written on my hand to remember something - the black scrawl has smudged through the day. </p><p>And I <i>like</i> my falling down hem. I <i>like</i> my paint splatters. I <i>like</i> the hole in my tights. I like the illegible writing on my hand.</p><p>This is <i>me</i>. This is who I <i>am</i>. </p><p>And I am happy with who I am. </p><p>I love mismatched socks and wild, overgrown, tangled gardens. I love mossy, meandering paths that lead nowhere in particular and old and falling down houses full of interesting curios muddled together. I adore well-loved, dog-earred books with coffee and chocolate stains. I love jagged, illegible handwriting and asymmetrical, patched and second hand clothes. </p><p>I do not like the orderly. The overly clean. The straight lines. The meticulously organised. The matching. The co-ordinated. </p><p>They are Anti-Me. And given a choice I stay away from them. </p><p>The motion through rain, towards home, feeling so completely myself, satisfies me. This is me. <i>This is who I am. </i></p><p>Who I am... is a klutz. </p><p>A very messy, disorganised klutz. </p><p>The thing that makes me a klutz (officially) has various official names. Dyspraxia. Developmental Coordination Disorder. It used to be known as 'clumsy child syndrome'. </p><p>Basically, there are parts of my brain that don't work in the same way that a neurotypical brain does. </p><p>And I know this definitively as I took part in a study where they got me to fill in various forms and do various motor tests to work out my precise level of clutziness and if it was enough for me to be part of a study about motor impairment. </p><p>My klutziness was enough to qualify as motor impairment or Developmental Coordination Delay and they got me to look at pictures of hands in various positions and took an MRI of my brain, as well as that of a few other people. And they were able to pinpoint the precise areas where our brains differ. </p><p>There are certain things that most people take for granted (though I still find this a little hard to believe: sometimes I think maybe everyone else just spent hundreds of hours, or years, practicing, and I'm lazy, so I just haven't) that I just can't do. </p><p>There are other things that I can do, but I do very very badly, and they stress me out and leave me sore and tired. </p><p>And then there's just the every day clumsiness of constantly spilling things, and dropping things, and losing things, and breaking things. So far today I've spilt two cup of coffee and lost my sunglasses once, my phone twice, and a folio of documents I need to make an important email. (I've found my phone, my sunglasses are still lost, the folio of documents was sitting right next to my bed, but I found the email I needed by going back to the website. I still need to wash the sheets from the first cup of coffee I dropped.)</p><p>To be honest, it's been a pretty good day, klutz wise. I've probably got a few new bruises from knocking in to stuff, but I tend not to notice those. It's always interesting to look at my bruises and try to work out where they're from. </p><p>Most of the things that I can't do, or that I find particularly challenging, are things that primary schools, and lower grade secondary schools are all about. </p><p>Like many neurodiverse people I tend to think of schools as The Evil Place of Torment and Suffering filled with aliens who are Not Like Me and who are, indeed, Anti-Me. </p><p>The things I can't do. At all. Are: Clap in time. Dance in Rhythm. Remember dance steps. Or music. Skip when other people are holding the rope. Follow knitting patterns. Or crochet patterns. </p><p>Things I do very badly: Neatness. No matter how hard I try, or how long I take, I can't write neatly, or cut neatly, or paste neatly. Or basically <i>be neat</i>. Or any of that fine motor stuff that is Very Important in primary school. Sport: I can't hit a ball. Or catch a ball. Unless by complete fluke. </p><p>Driving. I <i>can</i> drive. But I had about a hundred million lessons and two driving instructors ghosted me. Just stopped returning my calls. </p><p>I've tried twice to learn to try a geared car and... obviously not. It took me three driving lessons to notice the existence of break lights. I have ruined way more tyres than I'd like to admit, misjudging how far away the pavement is when I'm trying to park. </p><p>I am the person who waits until there is no car coming in either direction before I turn. I am the person who circles the parking lot again, and again, and again, until I find a park with at least one empty space next to it. Two is preferable. </p><p>I am the person who considers having to merge lanes cruel and unusual punishment, which generally takes at least an hour to recover from. I can feel my heartbeat increase and my breathing become fast and shallow just <i>thinking</i> about having to merge lanes. </p><p>And yes, I have had notes put on my car telling me how bad I am at parking. </p><p>Which is odd. </p><p>Because do they really think<i> I don't know</i>? </p><p>When I do drive, especially if it's a long drive or somewhere I haven't driven before, or in a city or a large town, I tend to be so stressed that my knuckles turn white and my fingers get so sore I have to consciously shake them out and unclench them. And then my hands hurt for age afterwards. I find it hard to tell how far away other cars are, how fast they are going. My reflexes... are not ideal. </p><p><i>I love my brain.</i> I love how it perceives the world. I love how it experiences the world. I love my imagination and curiousity. </p><p>But there's a reason that I love the wild, the messy, the decayed. I love spiders, and bats, fungi, vines and moss. I love weeds. I love the overgrown and tumbling down. I love the meandering, off-beat, the asymmetrical and the outsider. </p><p>I learnt in primary school on a daily basis, pretty much on an hourly basis, that I wasn't like the other kids. When I started school I still had a severe speech delay - a family friend says that when I was five I was still impossible to understand - so I sounded different than everyone else. I moved differently to everyone else and I couldn't do what everyone else could. The things I could do, I took far longer than everyone else to finish, and my work never looked the same. We always had second hand clothes and my mum had a bad haircut at 16 and never entered a hairdresser again, or took any of us to a hairdresser, so I looked different than everyone else. </p><p>I really might as well have been a changeling. </p><p>In fact, there was so little similarities between me and the other kids that by grade three I'd just decided Not To Be There. I had to be there physically, but I did not have to be there mentally. So I read through recess, through lunch time, whenever I wasn't actually doing classwork I was reading. </p><p>I did a pretty good job of imagining myself away. </p><p>When people say kids should go to school to socialise and make friends I tend to look at them and think - <i>what kind of crack are you on?</i> </p><p>Because what I learnt in primary school was that I am not like everyone else, and I am bad at <i>everything</i>. That I would <i>always</i> be last. Every time. I would be picked last. I would finish last. My work would be the messiest. That if you can't kick a ball, or play jump rope or elastics or on the monkey bars, then you won't <i>have</i> any friends. </p><p>So now I am aggressively anti-sporty, aggressively messy. (Okay, I don't actually have to put any effort, aggressive or otherwise, into being messy. But I am fairly clear in my disinterest in competitive sports. Except perhaps ice dancing. Or gymnastics.) </p><p>I am, in fact, the<i> cliche</i> of a muddle-headed librarian, complete with coffee stains, mismatched buttons and Anti-Sport clothes. (There is something about a velvet pencil skirt - even stained - or gorgeous suede high heels that is brilliant at saying - 'do not throw your evil spheres of leather towards me. This is a No Competitive Sports zone. Also, please don't try to high five me because it freaks me out and makes me very stressed.')</p><p>I would like to be able to say some of my best friends are sporty but - actually. Nah. None, of my friends are sporty, and I prefer it that way. I'm not saying that I'd <i>never</i> be friends with someone sporty. I'm just saying that as I've got this far in life and it hasn't happened, it seems unlikely. </p><p>Let me be clear. I had it made very clear to me, repeatedly, over many, many years, that me and sporty people are different species. </p><p>They can stay in their world and I will stay in mine, and if I occasionally have to touch a book about a sportsperson I will take a deep breath and deal. (Deal badly, but still deal.) And I will stick with species that are cute and adorable. Like cats. And dogs. And bats. And spiders. </p><p>So maybe I have some issues. </p><p>And let's be clear. </p><p>My issues around sport are <i>nothing</i> compared to my trauma around schools. </p><p>But I am grateful for my neurodiversity.</p><p>There are some things I would deeply, desperately like to be able to do. Like remember dance steps, and be able to dance in time. Or knit a jumper. Or you know, get my kids to school on time. </p><p>But there's always creative dance, when you don't need to remember steps or dance in time. And I've always been happy to go to clubs or music festivals and dance off-beat and out of time. And I <i>can </i>knit - admittedly, only one stitch and only misshapen squares or scarfs, but I still love the feel and colours of the wool. And luckily I like misshappen, hole-y things. </p><p>And primary school did teach me important things.</p><p>It taught me to live within my mind. That my brain, my feelings, my perceptions, my imaginings - are vivid and real and infinitely precious to me. In forcing me to turn to books - for protection, for company - it opened me up to a universe of knowledge and wonder and adventure. </p><p>I learned that my mind - my creativity, my imagination, the way I perceive and experience this crazy beautiful world, is infinitely precious to me. That curiousity, discovering, adventuring into knowledge is a wonderful gift. </p><p>It encouraged me to focus on the wonder and joy of the natural world around me. Of the colours and texture of bark, on the movement of ants and the scent of the rain. </p><p>It taught me to be unapologetically me. To not rely on external validation.<i> I am </i>disorganised.<i> I am </i>messy.<i> I am</i> clumsy. I will<i> always</i> break stuff, lose stuff, bruise stuff, spill stuff. </p><p>But none of that matters compared to wonder, joy, a deep appreciation for beauty, an imagination that lets me experience world upon world, to creativity. To a deep awareness of the world around, of it's past and present and future. </p><p>And so I return to that memory of me, running, on the cusp of adulthood - my brain soaking in knowledge and learning, my imagination soaring. (I believe that was the year I wrote four fantasy novels - around 280,000 words altogether, in my spare time, that I also would catch the train and train and bus down to our beach house for weekends with my younger brother and his friends, and spend intensely joyful time wandering the shore and floating over waves, and challenging myself with the sea and the dark.)</p><p>This is me. I love my brain because of my neurodivergence, including my dyspraxia, not despite it. </p><p> And I am glad that it is mine. And I am glad of my memories of running, unravelling, in the rain. </p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p>kirstyrosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282465629949382550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170624524397261237.post-73914257004809607162022-11-09T16:30:00.003-08:002023-04-16T21:11:34.984-07:00By Sea<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTRTXmXRvRTWPr_2t7p0enIlhesn8h9zSXF7l_bvfqdXlaTnSuOJGg5Zc_C_cLiBsEiv05fTlwjhvxreTavSQ8yQOKFXJvB1sN8u099pZvnAVraXar0NBJ5YvxlISPggjNuU1d-FOlRvZRpZaVFYMbFBjRxoSYng7j1JdvS-BpQAyOrY6mrK-EoRUx/s5472/mygirl_9938.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTRTXmXRvRTWPr_2t7p0enIlhesn8h9zSXF7l_bvfqdXlaTnSuOJGg5Zc_C_cLiBsEiv05fTlwjhvxreTavSQ8yQOKFXJvB1sN8u099pZvnAVraXar0NBJ5YvxlISPggjNuU1d-FOlRvZRpZaVFYMbFBjRxoSYng7j1JdvS-BpQAyOrY6mrK-EoRUx/w640-h426/mygirl_9938.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>My eldest daughter is now so close to being a teenager. It amazes and astounds me to see my small babies become confident and assertive people. To see them taking in the world and deciding their place in it. <div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin4CFbk_MyM2kFByJpF8gKysdG5rPRtPjxJbshGdmE33vWeReE57HBEfpOJrpCzhFHfSnyiHdw4VX--Kzv9yvPz62ZeJfu2tQGjchmxSVT6AmYRp_vWAbCPRYR0x2onVBxvXKSC-iu5BJVtYC5a2EX2xqAyRO-9z_Bg0IvbukAMbVIuH3NcEwLVdfm/s5472/wintry_9948%20(1).jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin4CFbk_MyM2kFByJpF8gKysdG5rPRtPjxJbshGdmE33vWeReE57HBEfpOJrpCzhFHfSnyiHdw4VX--Kzv9yvPz62ZeJfu2tQGjchmxSVT6AmYRp_vWAbCPRYR0x2onVBxvXKSC-iu5BJVtYC5a2EX2xqAyRO-9z_Bg0IvbukAMbVIuH3NcEwLVdfm/w640-h426/wintry_9948%20(1).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8lwvYO_Y8A7herMzoSot1_l0SVcVJKonCJ0zX3pmAZOofMHamSDsTNJA2J8p--yHs4sErO-7727yIOhqA4DAasDrQqaChPVQyWWz7y0C9DkZcSfJ44PlBuBj2Abs3VHbC141zq1_3YtxMyck230On2j3tHt9IjqPvH3ZiWBaA4_vnmcbhAz2aYI3Y/s5472/mygirl_9941.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8lwvYO_Y8A7herMzoSot1_l0SVcVJKonCJ0zX3pmAZOofMHamSDsTNJA2J8p--yHs4sErO-7727yIOhqA4DAasDrQqaChPVQyWWz7y0C9DkZcSfJ44PlBuBj2Abs3VHbC141zq1_3YtxMyck230On2j3tHt9IjqPvH3ZiWBaA4_vnmcbhAz2aYI3Y/w640-h426/mygirl_9941.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p></div>kirstyrosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282465629949382550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170624524397261237.post-38765124005039080402022-10-05T19:00:00.001-07:002023-04-16T21:12:30.928-07:00Here (Self Portrait)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNWK7K3RxJvmU7KgiYDA3wccmHTZHoRRnkq0RGBcwFx2VDN9snr4hcn_NohGxmkNe57IWWZlGqeTOR1nhCuepQmGVX91ewwFNpTR_rS30aE8szfSOGZ_BqYp_DG2RHXy7ELjY6gE1bbPKB0gSsn7vP9ADy5FmZbosfq_oCmEIWLovEIAmKcAFkwgrW/s5472/here_4890.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNWK7K3RxJvmU7KgiYDA3wccmHTZHoRRnkq0RGBcwFx2VDN9snr4hcn_NohGxmkNe57IWWZlGqeTOR1nhCuepQmGVX91ewwFNpTR_rS30aE8szfSOGZ_BqYp_DG2RHXy7ELjY6gE1bbPKB0gSsn7vP9ADy5FmZbosfq_oCmEIWLovEIAmKcAFkwgrW/w640-h426/here_4890.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p>I arise before first light to take photos of the sunrise over K'gari and the Sandy Straits. </p><p>Before the sun appears, the ground is sharply cold underfoot. There is little sand, but rocks, oyster shells, gravel. Within the water sludge-silt lines the bottom. The clarity of the water is disrupted by my careful footprints and brown rises in clouds. </p><p>I am a newcomer to the area, still feel a newcomer to the state. Despite having birthed two kids here, married a Queenslander, lived here for getting on to ten years I still refer to 'you Queenslanders' and blink in astonishment at various things. </p><p>But here. On the shore. Here, wading in sea, tottering over rocks with my non-balance, questing for falls of light. I belong. </p><p>Happiness is the sea. </p><p><br /></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxa8GgT7ELlNGiWnwnr7AuNVrp3E10HMrfN-jBwife8wjybUwkDoHklExG3LFI5J5ihXEe-rEHOpgGs4DTlSU0TLrPktMONGx4omIaKQA1PrL9jNakjCxO41ov5V3RgRGD7khYtdzH36cH25ZTmlm8JGqBlqEswcjpMJPLDLlMeUFycy6sDt9atvrR/s5472/here_5084.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxa8GgT7ELlNGiWnwnr7AuNVrp3E10HMrfN-jBwife8wjybUwkDoHklExG3LFI5J5ihXEe-rEHOpgGs4DTlSU0TLrPktMONGx4omIaKQA1PrL9jNakjCxO41ov5V3RgRGD7khYtdzH36cH25ZTmlm8JGqBlqEswcjpMJPLDLlMeUFycy6sDt9atvrR/w640-h426/here_5084.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiMyg-8ZohQqoRwGhwwVSQ1B8t4N-yGNxo4gJW_MvRFl_7d-J6N82yo7yHd7jGFxZbUp52ZU5oTX5-XcHqhz-e52wHD7BKABw8tQoFQDwWVXXRZj5yqtCRfbj_VTCRhIxYp0X3f0JsnDLnZKuMOBtNClCQUasey0Gy4eY3-cAmeYAZLw18julOZ7hv/s5472/here_4896.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiMyg-8ZohQqoRwGhwwVSQ1B8t4N-yGNxo4gJW_MvRFl_7d-J6N82yo7yHd7jGFxZbUp52ZU5oTX5-XcHqhz-e52wHD7BKABw8tQoFQDwWVXXRZj5yqtCRfbj_VTCRhIxYp0X3f0JsnDLnZKuMOBtNClCQUasey0Gy4eY3-cAmeYAZLw18julOZ7hv/w640-h426/here_4896.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix05k6JVYbCGt7wzoZWoTI6gYQOh8JZvnYhb_YeqGxzOJOpDzj5ldAMJZDataqtWRl80b1uHDUcjxO17nUZyYU8bdDtGOTsL9rYSOzVkOa_xJbDtZDis5WGKZk4H7MhO-tGEqiEa7A3XVYYko8Nig1vjdrAOTlS8XiqiwCreg2alnsLRs7v8sozJJN/s5472/here_4999.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix05k6JVYbCGt7wzoZWoTI6gYQOh8JZvnYhb_YeqGxzOJOpDzj5ldAMJZDataqtWRl80b1uHDUcjxO17nUZyYU8bdDtGOTsL9rYSOzVkOa_xJbDtZDis5WGKZk4H7MhO-tGEqiEa7A3XVYYko8Nig1vjdrAOTlS8XiqiwCreg2alnsLRs7v8sozJJN/w640-h426/here_4999.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6T-vvsWc8DmBnh_O5Hneg7SAmRHK4BYWWXQC4jcvx7ms6HOOI0h1tOrihES3Oe-JX5uSaU-tRuraVvdf4VopXaF39o65orQw8n768CZOvuD05y5iWCIFJkoSDqTNyuKNHQyUJY-wW9PUHvbUun3jLkCmd6Knvt3lGOjoOfyaV871zp0K3mS2Znq-B/s5472/here_5023.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6T-vvsWc8DmBnh_O5Hneg7SAmRHK4BYWWXQC4jcvx7ms6HOOI0h1tOrihES3Oe-JX5uSaU-tRuraVvdf4VopXaF39o65orQw8n768CZOvuD05y5iWCIFJkoSDqTNyuKNHQyUJY-wW9PUHvbUun3jLkCmd6Knvt3lGOjoOfyaV871zp0K3mS2Znq-B/w640-h426/here_5023.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>kirstyrosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282465629949382550noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170624524397261237.post-88064733179254600672022-10-05T18:41:00.001-07:002023-04-16T21:16:09.398-07:00And everything was gold and light<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKFWnrjmE3kdvpooggkCwjGpyCvIN7U-QYZMpFhxHvRlFysOxMndPJI7IM2ist5nj_IMPs8K6um6ClgAYnRhnx0PY0HU7ejS533RP-iqVeYVhWYY7Zjlme19vd_B7cXzcQs0hRWMNHTPowwMB05CxtdymoIyLCk1QpDzVoSRhtA3MyHnViW01qihls/s5472/frostblog_3727.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKFWnrjmE3kdvpooggkCwjGpyCvIN7U-QYZMpFhxHvRlFysOxMndPJI7IM2ist5nj_IMPs8K6um6ClgAYnRhnx0PY0HU7ejS533RP-iqVeYVhWYY7Zjlme19vd_B7cXzcQs0hRWMNHTPowwMB05CxtdymoIyLCk1QpDzVoSRhtA3MyHnViW01qihls/w640-h426/frostblog_3727.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Early morning, winter. And the chill bites at me and I exalt and wish it would last forever. 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrOZdSo87xmtn8vfhTHNqq4ULv0euXr_7gm4sQlZDJLGTyGfH1QulXgEO11XPVg8S3Crszoj2sZN4LufA60zH8fb8iTwXsGNsVY1J7O2dMBMwcgdoc6DPCgYjmgbbNdpUV6RGibxmxz6pKLG_c0CGVyqhxCD-OFaX4b0QQmSho1p8iJEBDSH3IBGJ5/s4111/smudge_9130.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3019" data-original-width="4111" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrOZdSo87xmtn8vfhTHNqq4ULv0euXr_7gm4sQlZDJLGTyGfH1QulXgEO11XPVg8S3Crszoj2sZN4LufA60zH8fb8iTwXsGNsVY1J7O2dMBMwcgdoc6DPCgYjmgbbNdpUV6RGibxmxz6pKLG_c0CGVyqhxCD-OFaX4b0QQmSho1p8iJEBDSH3IBGJ5/w640-h470/smudge_9130.jpeg" width="640" /> </a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;">One of our cats died this year. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Back in May, on Mother's Day. My oldest daughter cried inconsolably until midnight. And it's taken me this long to be able to write about it. </p><p style="text-align: left;">It seems odd that a pets death could be so deeply traumatic, but he wasn't old. It wasn't his time. He was only five. Our old house was on the edge of a vicious mouse plague and we lived on the outskirts of town in an elderly house so mice were a problem. We didn't poison, but neighbours did. </p><p style="text-align: left;">We couldn't find Smudge for a few days before I tracked down the smell in the girls bedroom, and found him. From his body he was clearly the victim of snakebite or poison. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Our cats have an enclosure for outdoors, but they are Houdini's, and worked out how to escape under it and how to pull down the zip to the opening. Now, in our new house, we have the enclosure like Fort Knox, and the zip is attached to the wall with two bike clips. When Smiggle comes inside he always prowls around looking for routes to the great outdoors. Now, all our windows have mesh. </p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX0DRAKlgJL69N9peAhicfaOWPzEJh9IMu4GgAwE1eiY3oKTDaeR_bAu0djTNrC8FUvGSuTCo4BGxyb1xW_ihum0ILHfxo6K8vSlWXYqRs1PnOIW7ckXU89AmF_0Uj3mtj1AV73KpVaq9NiySdKwRBHlmBcFO6DC4fpBa3mQLnjo_j2LV2azcC_BiD/s5472/IMG_3848%20(1).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX0DRAKlgJL69N9peAhicfaOWPzEJh9IMu4GgAwE1eiY3oKTDaeR_bAu0djTNrC8FUvGSuTCo4BGxyb1xW_ihum0ILHfxo6K8vSlWXYqRs1PnOIW7ckXU89AmF_0Uj3mtj1AV73KpVaq9NiySdKwRBHlmBcFO6DC4fpBa3mQLnjo_j2LV2azcC_BiD/w640-h426/IMG_3848%20(1).jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5My3swsrBfd6W7i57-PHCfocA1enJ6gSWrYnVpwWlNrwhfTqm9vT1WlqBrcpsf6GRiOK1U3GgLNdsZPygVSmaFftS7ejdWXt2G6Ke63zri3yBJFW2lxGwwu9FCHajwN2mySQgzpYqEhc93YqiPbh8XmKYjq6vuRq5t0VdUflauvNSnqqeL2iNP0Dp/s3856/IMG_4203.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2689" data-original-width="3856" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5My3swsrBfd6W7i57-PHCfocA1enJ6gSWrYnVpwWlNrwhfTqm9vT1WlqBrcpsf6GRiOK1U3GgLNdsZPygVSmaFftS7ejdWXt2G6Ke63zri3yBJFW2lxGwwu9FCHajwN2mySQgzpYqEhc93YqiPbh8XmKYjq6vuRq5t0VdUflauvNSnqqeL2iNP0Dp/w640-h446/IMG_4203.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7JeFnnbhwdCVl2lNayMQyb5QmWT5sCM9Gezhkfkub0adePb4oySPLryVNfGk9BTLRhQq1sEmuxdEqI9QodDVWFXpiIgEgQWlxE9-z5sItqQqBucyuqCR7_UrAOvzL1zt801tvo-WXe8dDNlXlAFAQ1LkjGs682ee3dwk8wABXlXAEufj-omQfmozB/s5472/IMG_4720.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7JeFnnbhwdCVl2lNayMQyb5QmWT5sCM9Gezhkfkub0adePb4oySPLryVNfGk9BTLRhQq1sEmuxdEqI9QodDVWFXpiIgEgQWlxE9-z5sItqQqBucyuqCR7_UrAOvzL1zt801tvo-WXe8dDNlXlAFAQ1LkjGs682ee3dwk8wABXlXAEufj-omQfmozB/w640-h426/IMG_4720.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx1uaZL0BLUWG7FfFAzgOev9LZkv0xojWBYKgRfgLjtpVKC0iXpd4wljgBDGc4Pe2iKW9ITJzJQrXaZIdwypi8KuMMW7vMCbTXud9T53DhJ2sqKG43z3RzkyNhfwAmqkebdOjvNZtugkob8cSpOwBsuuAyFdXt7dQCItIIpDXziCxFkTj-e29DGSC1/s3836/IMG_5680.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2569" data-original-width="3836" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx1uaZL0BLUWG7FfFAzgOev9LZkv0xojWBYKgRfgLjtpVKC0iXpd4wljgBDGc4Pe2iKW9ITJzJQrXaZIdwypi8KuMMW7vMCbTXud9T53DhJ2sqKG43z3RzkyNhfwAmqkebdOjvNZtugkob8cSpOwBsuuAyFdXt7dQCItIIpDXziCxFkTj-e29DGSC1/w640-h428/IMG_5680.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;">We got Smiggle and Smudge from a rescue place in Toowomba, for my oldest daughter's 7th birthday. We thought that the kids surfeit of love might be too much for one cat, so we got brothers. I spent hours searching for descriptions of kittens who were bold and courageous and liked dogs and kids. Oddly, this does not apply to most cats. Smiggle and Smudge were described as cheeky, 3am toe biters. They sounded perfect and we drove the 5 hour round trip to Toowomba to pick them up. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Despite being brothers, they had very different personalities. Smiggle is very much my daughters cat. Smudge loved everyone, including our dog. And he was bold and beautiful and had a deep and wonderful purr and I still miss him so much. </p><p style="text-align: left;">But... it's time. And now I can be glad we had the years we did. But I still miss him. This weekend we're making the long drive to Toowomba for a friend for Smudge. Hours of searching has found our perfect-for-us kitten, at the same pet rescue as before. She and her siblings were found under a car out in Dalby when only a few weeks old. She loves kids and cats and dogs. </p><p style="text-align: left;">At the moment I can't imagine ever loving her as much as Smudge. But that may change. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Goodbye Smudge. Thank you for your years with us. We'll miss you forever. </p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqBRoneLvY_M1koeGuyoVP61-ataN3seUi0FB4Kh9RIMRuCGMNDWoBaCnlssbZSbVxSRkdaPq8-F2aeo1KXVZCssNKnruK4YxSe_3PYsC0PR7SWC9DU-veG5-tQT33hGfikxrmROmjg-nQCSabOwAzMR9VP6QGa-raUSPhpc1-xmsfPMrFFW1klGY-/s5472/smudge_9119.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqBRoneLvY_M1koeGuyoVP61-ataN3seUi0FB4Kh9RIMRuCGMNDWoBaCnlssbZSbVxSRkdaPq8-F2aeo1KXVZCssNKnruK4YxSe_3PYsC0PR7SWC9DU-veG5-tQT33hGfikxrmROmjg-nQCSabOwAzMR9VP6QGa-raUSPhpc1-xmsfPMrFFW1klGY-/w640-h426/smudge_9119.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p>kirstyrosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282465629949382550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170624524397261237.post-28513988207218594912022-10-04T19:23:00.002-07:002022-10-04T19:23:35.647-07:00Mangroves<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicfJqCyYwelLei6HUiSLEeWOHOXMEIoi2j92ABhzFq5bi6SEyeWJfilIryUB2kUVE1HIuMz1ZMiN7Xrn60S7kKofL49_GSeZJvGbWR45DXTIYe-Yz1S5MrlbJICIvLI0UwJ_9i8fTa1ApYj-fTFMdsTu7SwxPkmiaAWBY0TxJStkqu6YR5YE7Jigz2/s5472/mangrove.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicfJqCyYwelLei6HUiSLEeWOHOXMEIoi2j92ABhzFq5bi6SEyeWJfilIryUB2kUVE1HIuMz1ZMiN7Xrn60S7kKofL49_GSeZJvGbWR45DXTIYe-Yz1S5MrlbJICIvLI0UwJ_9i8fTa1ApYj-fTFMdsTu7SwxPkmiaAWBY0TxJStkqu6YR5YE7Jigz2/w640-h426/mangrove.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Mangroves have their own peculiar magic. I've only really met them in the last few years and I am awed by their otherness. They own the liminal land between sea and shore, weathering time and tide in the in-between that few can survive in. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyvXXl5lYM2BNQdq7gKQaItKofOwzE5M-liRao-yskZo51XpoQCFzsmoz6-L6thTX-kY2XZBlBvVGYQ0Q3X1T89d4wp_Xhr42sCtpK9_ZspoaER6qx8G89Xxz2Oey3bLXFirb5m0xY3xz2MNYLZBrqV-YPYxZXeTuFzCGebB4JyEXkmZFnksBZHgRb/s5472/mangrove_4750.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyvXXl5lYM2BNQdq7gKQaItKofOwzE5M-liRao-yskZo51XpoQCFzsmoz6-L6thTX-kY2XZBlBvVGYQ0Q3X1T89d4wp_Xhr42sCtpK9_ZspoaER6qx8G89Xxz2Oey3bLXFirb5m0xY3xz2MNYLZBrqV-YPYxZXeTuFzCGebB4JyEXkmZFnksBZHgRb/w640-h426/mangrove_4750.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkouGq-iPVBWUG4DeYLGEbyJhUvxJSZsY1zFqWJR9E5H2G6KdJVbA0AWVqBwIaXlzWaJTpcAttDzAjWOeEznlBW3Z5fCUuHo8dnv0tnaBx2uOwllQwysxU0wpve6tlepEYAUxz3cn6m2sx1RKiXN1pgdjVC5MrnPdZWEjcjuUSGNS6SVcSy33zUdYA/s5472/mangrove_4913.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkouGq-iPVBWUG4DeYLGEbyJhUvxJSZsY1zFqWJR9E5H2G6KdJVbA0AWVqBwIaXlzWaJTpcAttDzAjWOeEznlBW3Z5fCUuHo8dnv0tnaBx2uOwllQwysxU0wpve6tlepEYAUxz3cn6m2sx1RKiXN1pgdjVC5MrnPdZWEjcjuUSGNS6SVcSy33zUdYA/w640-h426/mangrove_4913.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBru5P_ZEhTa1fSdYPfHmr1NQLN-PMa9WjXXepeph2bjg8DAkariSOiSift-9jQIbs9Y5LBp7zTPymdKt5tcxq5tUSa0aG_wSPVwVLyFjCxaFBPwmUY3jSce_vPV89L7J3xYFnc6qdYU3h3P-1mWVMM5YFvE8eNFZvwGvDQ8VjKK4_0mbE4fpbx6Pn/s5472/mangrove_4926.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBru5P_ZEhTa1fSdYPfHmr1NQLN-PMa9WjXXepeph2bjg8DAkariSOiSift-9jQIbs9Y5LBp7zTPymdKt5tcxq5tUSa0aG_wSPVwVLyFjCxaFBPwmUY3jSce_vPV89L7J3xYFnc6qdYU3h3P-1mWVMM5YFvE8eNFZvwGvDQ8VjKK4_0mbE4fpbx6Pn/w640-h426/mangrove_4926.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHE5Jc3T_3Xq6f0poCoLo6yNZWoBv4Hmh4r4VuzsFCgM6vswVAMc_98D4spqQQWQiINKo3NTWwkoHv9_6Y5WyU8a_TKt2YyqhxyPgMCjViO6Li64hz0WpzmsGz2o_EmoledP_dQuIBya9orVntJ4_33bGoJViF8g8QMotBAueLqCnCkCp4dS69_l8f/s5472/mangroveroots_4917.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHE5Jc3T_3Xq6f0poCoLo6yNZWoBv4Hmh4r4VuzsFCgM6vswVAMc_98D4spqQQWQiINKo3NTWwkoHv9_6Y5WyU8a_TKt2YyqhxyPgMCjViO6Li64hz0WpzmsGz2o_EmoledP_dQuIBya9orVntJ4_33bGoJViF8g8QMotBAueLqCnCkCp4dS69_l8f/w640-h426/mangroveroots_4917.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-7p5_WH4Clr220S4qatqqjvReHDrqfcKFV2BwCTfXjId-cyLDI2kKXX6Nmw2N9yzOSUm1s9ACqDj840aUMsZjvh7Hs-7u3myzISDBObqZ_mq5gml-cc87U8XayWdmVExrio-ben-GxKnXURoeFGPcrauI4qTElELRk_tq97-_y7amuFHIt0iMQLfy/s5472/mangroves_4464.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-7p5_WH4Clr220S4qatqqjvReHDrqfcKFV2BwCTfXjId-cyLDI2kKXX6Nmw2N9yzOSUm1s9ACqDj840aUMsZjvh7Hs-7u3myzISDBObqZ_mq5gml-cc87U8XayWdmVExrio-ben-GxKnXURoeFGPcrauI4qTElELRk_tq97-_y7amuFHIt0iMQLfy/w640-h426/mangroves_4464.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>And they thrive. </p><p>Home to so many, unobtrusively shaping the coast, saving the coast, their roots binding against erosion even in the most inhospitable salt-laden environment, they are the unsung heroes. </p><p>Mangroves, I salute you. </p><p>May I strive to be like you. Indomitable. Resilient. Green and growing. Life sustaining. </p>kirstyrosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282465629949382550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170624524397261237.post-48639756467104797072022-10-04T02:57:00.002-07:002022-10-04T02:57:53.430-07:00Frost (And a Southerner's ruthless lament)<p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwnjhHYHTrmIwHA0yKx3ymWTHiP_XRKCKsTjrRJ9PXBl4iOKkL2eLPiGgPRHpTvA-XWJubfagUHwq1T-xD7ftoG7seSQq68quX8N-XscpuRoFDcRBrgZ-k4EdqIAHHp7ZvsASXYrZrAVEtkJqdEV-3y6aYrP_9FplEmP4U6AJA0wGUfwx3Vlmm1ACH/s3567/frosat_3557.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2252" data-original-width="3567" height="404" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwnjhHYHTrmIwHA0yKx3ymWTHiP_XRKCKsTjrRJ9PXBl4iOKkL2eLPiGgPRHpTvA-XWJubfagUHwq1T-xD7ftoG7seSQq68quX8N-XscpuRoFDcRBrgZ-k4EdqIAHHp7ZvsASXYrZrAVEtkJqdEV-3y6aYrP_9FplEmP4U6AJA0wGUfwx3Vlmm1ACH/w640-h404/frosat_3557.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Summer is speeding its sweat-soaked, heat-stroked sticky way towards us, but not so many days ago, as I walked the dogs in the early morning (at a decent hour in the winter - none of that ridiculous 4.15am sunrise stuff*) frost hung on each blade of grass, each spiders web, each wayside flower. <p></p><p>And it was heartbreakingly beautiful. </p><p>And the air felt perfect at a brisk, invigorating 0c. 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Yes! A thousand times Yes! I understand that it's not so great for those really out West, or up North, but in this I'm willing to be ruthless. Yes, I am one of those weak southerners clinging as close as affordable to the coast. Up from Mackay can be ceeded to the Northern Territory and west of Chinchilla can be handed over to South Australia. </p><p>I've noticed the Northern Territory and South Australia have the distinction of being at the half hour when it comes to time - as in, when its 12am in Sydney its 12.30am in Adelaide. I did not know this until recently.</p><p> Anyway, being used to such time oddities I'm sure the locals of the respective states can guide the ex-Queenslanders through any hiccups and the rest of us in the densely populated South East corner can enjoy having sunrise at a decent time, and schools and work starting shortly after sunrise when the day is yet to truly broil up. </p><p>Yes. I am panicking at the approach of Summer. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>kirstyrosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282465629949382550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170624524397261237.post-59239961301173744812022-05-02T17:46:00.002-07:002022-05-02T17:46:19.370-07:00Return - in Gold<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgegYZs1HPPKeMsB8zpC2it_5KIZU_5pp_RX765REIGATp2ILZSLCUg1Ab2zgKshiVNh3DE-6AWkyJCdVq4ENRJ6lAK2rfKwyRwutFTZu68l5-EaAydDvu3hHYDDwH4rAieKt872dQxEKTALLYuzRx5Km5J07pbV9c8FcLX9VaqnZM3O9f1zqQkB6T_/s5472/IMG_1870.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgegYZs1HPPKeMsB8zpC2it_5KIZU_5pp_RX765REIGATp2ILZSLCUg1Ab2zgKshiVNh3DE-6AWkyJCdVq4ENRJ6lAK2rfKwyRwutFTZu68l5-EaAydDvu3hHYDDwH4rAieKt872dQxEKTALLYuzRx5Km5J07pbV9c8FcLX9VaqnZM3O9f1zqQkB6T_/w640-h426/IMG_1870.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div>After Easter we return from my home state. <p></p><p>Our visit wasn't nearly long enough and it will be far too long until I can go home again. </p><p>But the evening light here is the most incredible gold, and there is so much space. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The sandstone itself is constantly changing, the amounts of sand. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There is no constancy, only the sea and the tide. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYnTmwQTwjO_MrfBl9YKK9Cm2eTWgy59-2MrWug-Ta7TfaBKQTxdZR1QTH7bdKS_G0sifGnYN6W5fKpuFvQxTK9uuCebeUsx-8yOyGHgtRBSCy7SsaKb1g_nhZzpbSGi4NKi5aEHtKxIpCszeq4RdxzKF6S7g7ucCWV50AhZ9WJz03HDpxsk7djIKb/s5472/rockpool_9948.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYnTmwQTwjO_MrfBl9YKK9Cm2eTWgy59-2MrWug-Ta7TfaBKQTxdZR1QTH7bdKS_G0sifGnYN6W5fKpuFvQxTK9uuCebeUsx-8yOyGHgtRBSCy7SsaKb1g_nhZzpbSGi4NKi5aEHtKxIpCszeq4RdxzKF6S7g7ucCWV50AhZ9WJz03HDpxsk7djIKb/w640-h426/rockpool_9948.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAJZ8rA7jkC7XNMXIaPKpVHoDKdo6J3f2fYE8zv6y-RRY6SLgoe57vqVbT5kEiHPygzLVLw8QYSuvPdFmWRe1j6-6CtglcavtOdZ01sQDqq9-1HCGZCZ70_o9vr8XOkjOliWCka-VyeUf0MC7-upaI4ekTUGF_rLxdpzwQNF1bDKaF16oG3rBQlKLx/s5472/rockpool_9944.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAJZ8rA7jkC7XNMXIaPKpVHoDKdo6J3f2fYE8zv6y-RRY6SLgoe57vqVbT5kEiHPygzLVLw8QYSuvPdFmWRe1j6-6CtglcavtOdZ01sQDqq9-1HCGZCZ70_o9vr8XOkjOliWCka-VyeUf0MC7-upaI4ekTUGF_rLxdpzwQNF1bDKaF16oG3rBQlKLx/w640-h426/rockpool_9944.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv0LJRbjVqMAsIJVlzSA_1mukINsDAGgUtczxCZB-uaCtPXfvifueH5Zbn_oDopCRZrzyBO41rwJjrHxUgZ9rWXmvPxAVVHBKsWI2e8EIz_cZTteQZ-zhnpYQ24OgjCP0NCfrklrqfRBS10Rpwl_3ydg6anVYZiggHx6GL5mhuT_iDJJMY_UxxTkNy/s5472/rockpool%20distortions_0007.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv0LJRbjVqMAsIJVlzSA_1mukINsDAGgUtczxCZB-uaCtPXfvifueH5Zbn_oDopCRZrzyBO41rwJjrHxUgZ9rWXmvPxAVVHBKsWI2e8EIz_cZTteQZ-zhnpYQ24OgjCP0NCfrklrqfRBS10Rpwl_3ydg6anVYZiggHx6GL5mhuT_iDJJMY_UxxTkNy/w640-h426/rockpool%20distortions_0007.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>kirstyrosahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282465629949382550noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170624524397261237.post-19601904173402052452022-05-02T17:26:00.001-07:002022-05-02T17:26:07.495-07:00Cusp<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB0rRY7tWpMloIU-kTszGr8h3PMYe_JQQWLHPFckf_R_OG2EU-RegsIk93uP-NS1F0BDlod-uW8FwRr_0TGq-BEOZEOH-_hNAoTLlEl7Z0zhW0THT6aaJio36NuZp3pLvmYnXWneotIyCVPI1kKRkniP3eWkehIc84hGZeA4MoAFuFU7HvagaRQMoC/s5472/IMG_2694.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB0rRY7tWpMloIU-kTszGr8h3PMYe_JQQWLHPFckf_R_OG2EU-RegsIk93uP-NS1F0BDlod-uW8FwRr_0TGq-BEOZEOH-_hNAoTLlEl7Z0zhW0THT6aaJio36NuZp3pLvmYnXWneotIyCVPI1kKRkniP3eWkehIc84hGZeA4MoAFuFU7HvagaRQMoC/w640-h426/IMG_2694.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">My oldest daughter - not yet a teenager and already she looks so much like a woman. She's too little to look so grown up - I remember my teens, I think on all the things I read about the teen world today and I want to beg her to wait, stay small, stay protected. The world is so big and so unkind, but I know there's no point, and instead I'm just proud that she is so much herself, that she is independent and assertive, determined and fiercely loyal. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">And yes, still some times she looks like the little one she really is. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOS1w-GmDhfWXqsCeTVjPPHOP7yVDZgFktVk_e9KyccG1dpNZQvRxsUhfCRHOpKpmgHd7bHVYjZbzUj14kwvlI3ZsVcr6rZa8lrA1Kf-2kShLQC-RJsj_lpKZ4MAomyymRnz2L2Hxc9UFZJanxNYV3UqZOHTEWXnP-J9PVn-ctx9S_XMAsl_qydbRc/s4983/amaya_2709.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3210" data-original-width="4983" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOS1w-GmDhfWXqsCeTVjPPHOP7yVDZgFktVk_e9KyccG1dpNZQvRxsUhfCRHOpKpmgHd7bHVYjZbzUj14kwvlI3ZsVcr6rZa8lrA1Kf-2kShLQC-RJsj_lpKZ4MAomyymRnz2L2Hxc9UFZJanxNYV3UqZOHTEWXnP-J9PVn-ctx9S_XMAsl_qydbRc/w640-h412/amaya_2709.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_mMBefq63krBIo8i8TL0xFsA7HPvoLDWTMhw7TBeOrHsh6_k_aGVDiP5sTNusQEOQry3SlQ_Tv-5ExKTuAxswfjd3B7dtIKeUAICm-qLBB-47zCNxsznY-LTTKf4oMzx9IFyijCGRyohluriIIuL4RnmsGrD9iK5a0dOMr-SWlhRT3DRoPbBDjqqt/w640-h426/IMG_9958.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Watching my daughter is like seeing an echo of myself when young, my mother. <p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRXpuqztN4pmjaF1RfZsGXZdwMXBAl3JWJ-YvIbOhHr0fOd1nZu9W2UHwUVhZR6XXBJaQsrvOAo-uqhBwdKoGT32lg33JwZYAdbsq1cOpIjJgMFUGa5jYiWUMlqraMG23oSz2PwT55j9SWTYCutg7tmbNhQHJSraspdVM2ZFdicCdd1bi7nJVjYlGY/s5472/IMG_9959.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRXpuqztN4pmjaF1RfZsGXZdwMXBAl3JWJ-YvIbOhHr0fOd1nZu9W2UHwUVhZR6XXBJaQsrvOAo-uqhBwdKoGT32lg33JwZYAdbsq1cOpIjJgMFUGa5jYiWUMlqraMG23oSz2PwT55j9SWTYCutg7tmbNhQHJSraspdVM2ZFdicCdd1bi7nJVjYlGY/w640-h426/IMG_9959.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">On the beach I think of as home, there's a rocky outcrop on the closest side of the bay, that's called the Point. Along the back of the Point are a series of rockpools only exposed at low tide, small spaces of calm, little worlds protected by sandstone from the wilder waters of Bass Strait. (Which yet is not as wild as the waters beyond Bass Strait.) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Exploring rock pools is something that should be a right of childhood - there's something so deeply meditative, peaceful and yet rewarding about the slow exploration. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Time moves differently with the sound of the waves breaking surrounding, the feel of the water, sand, of seaweed underfoot, the excitement of the discovery of a favourite shell, a crab, an anemone, a washed up jellyfish. Very occasionally there are penguins, far from home, seals, dolphins, a whale far out to sea. Once as we swam in one of the sheltered inlets a group of rays came to greet us, the water the intense green before the storm, and then lightning began striking out to sea. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Light plays upon the water, distorting the shells and sand below, the tide constantly changes, the lap and shush of the sea is a constant, and yet within the rock pools, for a time, all is calm, the still surface only slowly reveals the life within - the small fish, the tiny crabs, the shellfish. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKSeVt1sodJPUrNz3YTec2nf9fPsSaDQmo2gL9_UGREACE2wBEgM6qWi1tBJxYXmUwI2w1aXIptNbvKB-2jJxIoBvL5R_5nX9tlAHrdjXAJ0os5crfU6-Il_oBdhisOGgvrrObCOPdn-V2HXAuNshTbWeAiFioBpXtih4hCKZaw5gZYDzrpK94JF7S/s5472/anna_9925.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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