My Stories
Do I belong in Canada?
''The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.’’ Gilbert K....
Visiting Toronto and finding it gone
''Are not all our lives a movement from order to disorder, which in turn evolves into a new order?’’ Jean Vanier Becoming Human It’s been five years...
Love items of belonging
''Push it. Examine all things intensely and relentlessly.'' Annie Dillard The Writing Life In a week I’ll be boarding the plane and heading...
Are we dolphins in captivity bound by unwritten rules?
''Do not hurry; do not rest.'' Goethe I’m standing on the shores of Moreton Bay Island (Quandamooka) looking at Brisbane lights across the...
Daunted by belonging
''It is the sense of belonging that I miss, together with infusions of historical awareness and sensuality.'' Jan Morris Home Thoughts from Abroad...
Gratitude for connecting with new people
''Do all you can with what you have in the time you have, in the place you are.’’ Xolani Nkosi Johnson, age 11 (1990-2001) I hit a low point last...
Missing mum on Mother’s Day
''I love you across the river and over the hills,’’ Sam McBratney, Guess How Much I Love You My husband wonders if I miss him when he’s away...
Learning to listen
''A campfire wouldn’t be as exciting if it were silent.’’ Diane Ackerman A Natural History of the Senses Did you hear that? It’s April...
Anzac Day & working to include everyone
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the...
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