I love walking on beaches, feeling sand between my toes and surf spray on my skin, listening to ocean waves, watching the moon through palm fronds, swimming in my pool, turning my home into a haven from the big world outside, gardening, reading, resting, golliwogs, old books about the Yolngu in NorthEast Arnhemland, relationships, chocolate, coffee... AND my Four Fabulous Kids!!!!!
Music
Darwin Festival Time is happening now! Great to get to see new artists. I'm looking forward to meeting the women in Broad that Debra Conway is supporting this year.
I was right up the front to see Elton in Darwin this yeare; my first big concert since Dire Straits in 1986!!!!
WOOHOO!
Much to my own surprise, I've recently been listening to Austrlian female country and blues singers, particularly the ones I've seen live in Darwin over the last two festival seasons: Mia Dyson,Anne McCue and right at the moment, Beccy Cole. India Arie, Corrinne Bailey Rae and quirky local Kate Miller-Heidke are also in the CD stack in the little blue Zoom Zoom.
But when my friends Diz and David found out I was listening to country they sent me 18 (!) CDs of alternative choices...just to expand my consciousness.
When I am doing housework I crank up the PubRock, and Daddy Cool's Eagle Rock is my all time favourite of all
But when it is late at night...I'm chillin' with the grown up music and I'll be listening to Luther Vandross or Keith Sweat...mmmmmnh! Or just playlists of songs that reflect where I am at different points in life.
The first movie I saw at the cinema was Sound of Music with my Dad.
AND I TOOK MY KIDS TO SEE THE LIVE SHOW!!!
I still love romance, but wish big love didn't have to be quite that hard or painful or apparently impossible in real life or in films. After The Notebook, I cried, and cried, and cried.I found strong arms to hold me, but they are only temporary. I prefer happy endings, however impractical that is...and I get too stressed by horror and murder mysteries to actually watch them. In fact I rarely sit down for long enough to watch a movie, but I really enjoy a good movie if I actually do make the effort.
As part of an infatuation for men with *haircuts* like Bruce Willis, I developed a fondness for Die Hard IV.
Television
MySpace is way more fun than TV...when I try and communicate with the people on my MySpace screen I often get a response!
...that never happens with TV!
SEPTEMBER 2006
You Are 44% Addicted to Myspace
Your Myspace addiction factor is: Moderate
You're slowly building a very strong addiction to Myspace. Get out while you still can!
Wear More Cashmere: How to Pamper Your Inner Princess
Snippets from the Bulletin and New Scientist for brekky to check what's happened in the world before the next issue arrives. Crikey on-line so I keep questioning, and know what questions to ask.
Reading about Bhuddism to see whether focussing on the NOW will help me let go of the past and stop stressing about the future.
After working in remote indigenous communities (Numbulwar and Galiwinku) over the last ten years I have been collecting older books about early contact experiences between Yolngu and Balanda in NorthEast Arnhemland.
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Heroes
Generous people who have survived what life dishes them, and are willing to share the wisdom they have earned remain my everyday heroes...
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia
Graduated: 1996
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Grad Dip Counselling Psych
Clubs: by distance down in Gippsland
1993 to 1996
University of Tasmania
Hobart, Australia
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Sociology
Minor: English, History
Clubs: Jane Girls, Philosophy, Engies4Eva
1981 to 1986
Tivy H S
Kerrville, TX
Graduated: 1980
Student status: Alumni
1980 to 1980
Hobart College
MT NELSON, TAS
Graduated: 1979
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
I'm a Multi-Tasking Mum among other things.
I was seriously married for 18 years...But now? W4Wow!
Hey, Life is Short!
Make it Count!
Reconnecting to what is authentic for me and looking at life's possibilities. I feel like I'm back in touch with ME again!
I need to dance on my toes, and run in the wind, wish on a star, and listen to the secrets the ocean waves are whispering. Oh...and I could go a double helping of Blue Sky Love -the sort that sets you free and allows you to breathe again!
Who I'd like to meet:
For many moons after the world I had known ended, I was a Wombat, sleeping and hiding in my burrow...and some days I still need to be...
Now I've started to enjoy my new life, as I learn from people who are ALIVE in their own lives.There is room on my friends' list to connect with more positive and optimistic and inspiring humans.
Some amazing, strong women and men have supported me on my life journey...especially up the steep hills with the windy paths. Thankx so much!!!...but I am open to meeting more people...especially now that I've started to reimage myself.
Way back at the beginning of 2006 there was a major change in life circumstances for me. I assumed the world had ended...but with the help of some unexpected connections (Would you believe a multi-tasking mother could meet an Arabian prince, a trusty knnight, a retired elite world-champion paraplegic taxi driver or a modern day defender of widows and orphans in her regular daily life?) I have expanded my expectations. Being inspired by what these men and women have achieved and overcome in their own lives has stretched my understanding of what is possible, what's just fantasy, and how fantasy and reality can be aligned somewhere in a warp in the space time continuum.
I'm starting to believe that I will be able to take a new risk some day and invite a man who is more real than fantasy into my life again...Someone with imagination, and power over words. Someone with really strong arms who can hold me tight. Someone who doesn't mind sharing the hard bits with me as well as the fun times. Someone real and honest, who enjoys dancing, and beaches and music and just being alive in their life.
But that's for someday...
Right now, wise and patient friends have helped me get through the tuff stuff and come out smiling ...to come out of the chrysalis, stretch my wings and FLY!
Good morning lovely lady! I have been so remiss in getting around... School has been keeping me way too busy. I think I am too old to go back and do that all over again! :)
Wendy, How are you? We're in Fall Season and the weather here has been so gorgeous. As you know we're coming up on an election and our economy, well... the world market really, is soft. A real shift happening. All is well for me tho. Sending a big Hello and pleanty of warm vibes your way. ~Dottie
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