Ramblings

  I’ll be 78 in Feb 2023...unthinkable, truly! I look at others around my age, and I am concerned...how will this physical body last the TIME to fulfill every dream I have?   And yet I feel like my life is just beginning, each new day a dawning of a new experience, a new opportunity, new lessons, a new time. We think we are repeating the old, but when we find a situation that we don't know how to handle, are the lessons we have learned of yesterday able to help us today? We are the divine travelers, reaching for eternity!   I am reminded of a poem I wrote when I first came to live in Leichhardt, QLD in Jan 1994. I had already spent the previous 14 years with impaired energy and mobility issues, and gradually my health declined to such an extent where I was bedridden and needed the use of an electric wheelchair. The house I had been renting in Ipswich was not suitable anymore. I had been diagnosed with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Fybromyalgia and severe osteo-arthritic ...

How can I plant flowers i n a garden full of weeds? And even if they grow how can I see them? *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * Once again I'm reminded that feeling this breath of life is my first joy: whatever else I seek cannot compare to this *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * I witness the aqua-blue of ocean against the cerulean-blue of sky they touch each other with fond appreciation *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * In the aftermath of confusion clarity is sacred. In the midst of a tempest the sun brings calm. *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * Cold sea water, all of me immersed in salt and foam. Autumn touches the morning light and I feel refreshed, reborn. *  *  * ...

I've just had to give up my previous Website 'Parnas-sus.com' as it was becoming too difficult to manage. A petty as my niece Astrid Kuenne did such a fantastic job at designing it for me. So here I am back to my my old Blogsite 'Ramblings' and perhaps in the future I'll change the name to something more exciting. But the meaning of this word does capture my intention.... 'If you  describe  a speech or piece of writing as someone's  ra mblings , you are  saying  that it is meaningless because the person who said or wrote it was very confused or  insane ' However, for me it is more about having the freedom to write on any subject that comes to mind, a poem, a song, a narrative, a personal story etc.....without a time sequence. A friend of mine refers to these stories as 'Vignettes'...quite like the comparison. 'A  vignette  is a short  description , picture, or piece of acting which  expresses  very  clearly   and neatly th...