These are my feet. This is my view. These are my thoughts... The breeze driven clouds above are creating dark shadows on the glistening water below. The cloud shadows make it appear as if the water is deeper in parts than it actually is, and those inviting depths keep changing and moving. Cloud shadows...just like …
The longest dead straight road on the planet is found in Australia. It stretches 1100 kilometres (684 miles) across the Nullarbor Plain between South and West Australia. There's no way you can get lost because there are literally no detours. Aussies call it the Nullar-boring, because of its lack of visual stimulation! Sometimes we expect …
I still remember this sunset. Captured on my phone it was one of those moments where I was awed by the beauty and my heart swelled full of joy that I got to experience this. Like me, do you long to hit pause on these kinds of momentary moments? To bask in the wonder and …
This was my guest blog post as it appeared on David's Daily Dose a while back. If you don't yet follow David, please do! His writing is always relevant, encouraging, and delivered with punch! At a visit to my husband's work a while back he sat me in the recording studio, put headphones on my …
Magpies are inquisitive and unafraid. Charismatic carollers whose wonderful warbles make them one of my favourite birds. Magpies love a tasty morsel of meat. But I didn't have any to offer this fellow who'd landed on my camping table. But he hung around anyway. 🙂 "Hello there magpie, what are you up to?" (yes, I …
Welcome to "Bible Ponderings #4" which finds me in the book of 1 Samuel in the chronological reading plan. Every few weeks or so I hope to toss out there what I'm currently reading and invite you to ponder with me! Then Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, “Come, let us …
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"I'm a great-great grandmother!" They were the words of my 99 year old grandmother when I called her with the news that our little granddaughter Eden had been born. Nan is my hero. She's seen both world wars, survived the Great Depression, and raised her four children as a widow. She farewelled her boy to …
What would you say is one of the greatest contentment stealers? Here are some clues to one: Everyone does it. We naturally and developmentally begin to do this from the age of about five. It's particularly prevalent during our adolescent identity-forming years. There is a healthy version of this thing and an unhealthy version. The …
A huge and slow moving weather system recently parked itself on top of south-east Queensland and dumped 80% of our annual rainfall over 2- 3 days. It has now gone south and is doing just as much damage in coastal New South Wales. As the flood waters surged in the Brisbane River concrete pontoons weighing hundreds …
The blue of the summer day was breathtakingly brilliant, we were camping, and one thing I love about camping is there is time to take photos like this, just because. What is beyond this dead tree, this moon, this blue? There is the reality of planets, black holes, supernovas, red dwarf stars, white dwarf stars, …
Quietly Roaring 