Listening with the heart

I have Youtube subscriptions, Spotify playlists, and favourite podcasts. I have the car stereo tuned into local radio stations, and if I hit the digital button I can listen to radio stations from interstate and overseas. The world is literally at my fingertips. Radio waves and satellite frequencies abound in the atmosphere all around, 24/7, …

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Focus

Years ago we were letting our youngest teenage daughter drive our manual 4WD on the town commons at Longreach in central Queensland. It's not uncommon for outback kids to learn to drive in wide, open spaces so while in town we took advantage of the town commons where it was safe to let her loose! …

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Ambiguity

My husband made a statement to me the other day. He said, "You just need to become comfortable with ambiguity." I knew he was right. It was a statement made in response to me voicing the unknown outcomes in regards to a decision that needs to be made in coming months. There are multiple possible …

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Wrestling with Why

What? Which? Where? Who? Whom? Whose? How? When? WHY????? Out of all the interrogative question words, WHY has surely got to be the one which has the potential to cause the most frustration, confusion, and heartache. Wrestling with WHY is the mental and emotional equivalent of trying to organise my boxes of old photos. I …

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