by wonderersheart | Dec 1, 2015 | Friends, Mottsu and me |
My world is small, I have my favourite things, favourite places and favourite people. My taurean tendency is to be loyal, fixed with a preference for favourite things over new things. That was me today at Market Cafe (a favourite place), toting my shopping bag and...
by wonderersheart | Jan 28, 2012 | Carers and caring, Look after yourself, Mottsu and me |
I have sat through more aircraft safety demonstrations than I can count. “A loss of oxygen at altitude may lead to a loss on consciousness. If emergency oxygen is required your mask will appear from above you pull down on it firmly to activate the flow of oxygen...
by wonderersheart | Nov 1, 2011 | Life after loss, Mottsu and me |
This morning I passed an elderly man in my street, it is his street too, I said “Good Morning” he said “Good Morning” neither of us missed a step or changed our pace. We shared a greeting in the early quiet of Melbourne Cup Day. My eyes filled...
by wonderersheart | Oct 20, 2011 | Mottsu and me, Reported in the news |
Publishing help line numbers is standard protocol if a story mentions suicide. This helpline was published in The Age on-line this week and it particularly annoyed me. The structure of the statement and the punctuation means it doesn’t really say what it is...
by wonderersheart | Jun 28, 2011 | Depression experiences, Mottsu and me, Reported in the news |
I was going to talk about Marsha Linehan in my previous post and I got distracted by something the journalist wrote. Today back to Dr. Linehan who said of her own experience with depression: “I felt totally empty, like the Tin Man; I had no way to communicate what was...
by wonderersheart | Jun 16, 2011 | Mottsu and me |
A long time ago, in the early dawn of romance we shared ourselves and our backgrounds through our new found love, as couples do. In the early glow of intimacy we edited and adjusted our stories. We must have liked the new selves we saw reflected back through adoring...