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- Written by Jacqui Lee
Is being lonely the cruelest legacy of the latest pandemic?
There is a raft of difference in being alone from choice and having it forced upon you. If you like solitude and can deal with the quiet of an empty home, it can be a way of life.
Yet for widows, or families split up and isolated, it can be the worst fate.
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- Written by Brian Lee
Friends who know me know that I am not a religious person.
My personal belief is that there has been a logical progression of the Earth and its development, involving evolution and physics, where it all started as a red-hot ball of iron circling around a fairly young star, which we now call our sun.
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- Written by Brian Pickering
Having been ‘on the road’ for 3 years now – from Sydney up to Cairns via Mackay and of course plenty of overnights and occasionally weekly stays at all the little places in-between then down to Toowoomba for 6 months, ‘locked down' by the COVID restrictions, then back up to Hervey Bay, while we haven’t moved an awful lot as many ‘nomads’ do.. (we call ourselves ‘slow-mads’) we continually enjoy meeting new people on an almost daily basis.
Something we realised today that you simply do not do living in a house in suburbia!
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- Written by Brian Pickering
Excuse the language but it was the easiest way to grab your attention!
After watching tonight’s news, it seems not too many people care – like we used to.
There’s the story of a guy in Townsville who had a stroke while driving, hit his head on the steering wheel and was left to die by passing motorists.
We’ve read similar things where people seem not to care about someone who perhaps is being harassed, publicly or whatever and mostly they just don’t want to get involved, especially if it’s an on-going potential ‘DV’ or Domestic Violence situation with neighbours constantly arguing.
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- Written by Brian Lee
My Dad was called up in early1941, and although I was seven then, I can’t say I remember much about the occasion. Mum, who was always a very quiet, within-herself kind of person, who only on rare occasions allowed emotion to show, didn’t make a big fuss about it at all, (probably so as not to worry me). Consequently, as far as I was concerned, Dad just quietly disappeared one day, possibly while I was at school, with Mum telling me something like, “Oh Dad’s gone to join the army”, in response to any questions I might have asked when I came home.
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- Written by Brian Lee
Everyone needs friends. Friends stand by you when you are in trouble, but tell you the truth about yourself. Friends defend you against those who might wish to hurt you, either physically or mentally. They are there when you need them in fair weather or foul and they know when you need to be alone as well.
Civilization can only function with the assistance of friends, friends we may call colleagues, associates, family, acquaintances or countrymen, but all, in their own way, are friends.
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- Written by Brian Lee
I’m not religious, in fact I don’t believe in any sort of deity at all. My belief is that organised religion was and is something designed by man, to provide control over men and women, in exactly the same way that politics operate. That’s just my opinion of course, but it is an opinion I hold to firmly.
Though I have no religion, I still think I can claim to be a reasonably good person, just as much as anyone religious; I know the difference between good and evil; I try to do the best I can for other individuals; and I try to be as honest as it is possible to be.
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- Written by Brian Pickering
“What happens on holiday, stays on holiday” right ?...
Well maybe… if you end up going back home & back to your day to day routine. But I have to say living full-time in a caravan for the past 3+ years has been a real eye-opener. In fact we’ve almost become ‘Mrs Kravitz’s’ – remember her from the old TV show Bewitched??
While there are many ‘grey-nomads’ out there right now, my wife Kaye & I like to call ourselves ‘slow-mads’.
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- Written by Brian Pickering
We once asked a solo female traveller Sandra, was she ever frightened travelling alone?... she said “No not really. You can get killed or raped in your own home”. Sadly, how right she was!
And while we live by the principle ‘what you fear is what you attract’, we’ve installed a motion-sensor security light and two small CCTV cameras with auto-recording between dusk to dawn every day.
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Dear Mum…. Just wanted to say thank-you so much for your letter from April 1991. I liked it when I first read it and now – 31 years later – I absolutely LOVED it! 😊
I know some people might think it strange that I’m writing to you because we haven’t been able to chat on the phone or write to each other as much as we used to since you left us on June 11th 2009 at 8:40pm, but as far as I’m concerned you’re still with us.
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- Written by Brian Pickering
Finally! I have had enough… Mwaaa! (Crocodile’s tears, if you may). Thump!
That’s my fist coming down hard on my desk. If I sound frustrated, you bet I am!
What is it about people today that we don’t seem to know how to communicate with each other anymore? By ‘communicate’ I don’t just mean replying with a smiling emoji or the like on social media...
I’m sorry to say, not all, but the majority of younger generations are up there as the very worst communicators!
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