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The Fire A tale of miraculous protection during the devastating 2003 Canberra bushfires. Extracts from Paula’s story as told to Robyn   … January 18, 2003, was a sweltering Saturday with scorching winds battering the bush and stirring up the dust, which lodged like grit in our eyes. It felt like all the moisture was  […]
To a Mist Up from the river, softly stealing, by wanton breezes rent and torn, Half concealing, yet, half revealing, The glories of an early dawn, The mist sprite draws her gossamer veils O’er the wakening face of earth As on the wings of the wind she sails Clouding the sunlight’s birth Clammy, damp, bewildering, […]
  A fragrant memory   I t was the first thing I noticed as I walked through the sliding doors into the foyer of the large Sydney Adventist hospital – the rich enveloping fragrance of a multitude of flowers drifting from the florist shop beside the lifts. I stepped into the lift and rode up […]
To everything there is a season Autumn seemed to be late in coming this year, but finally summer decided to depart in a blaze of glory. This tree in my street had a luminous quality about it, almost as if showing off before shedding it’s finery and hunkering down for the rigours of winter. The […]
We are all very different. For many years I tried to be like my clever creative friends, and undertook a variety of craft activities. I started a patchwork quilt when I was 16, cutting out little octagonal shapes of material, backing them with paper, then hand stitching them methodically together one by one. The idea […]