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IS FAMILY GOOD FOR OUR HEALTH?

31/5/2021

Artist: Bernadette Curtin

As we near the end of our lives we start to question many of the things we have accepted or taken for granted and or have adhered to over our lifetime. For some of us, this may include questioning the role of family and family relationships. We may question, for example, have our family relationships been positive and nurturing, supporting us to grow and evolve, or have they caused us some form of harm, making us question ourselves and influence our life decisions?

LESSONS IN Love FROM A DOG

30/4/2021

Well who would ever have thought that I would learn so much about love, parenting and grandparenting from a dog? So here I am at the age of 60 with two children in their 30’s, neither of them with partners and the likelihood of grandchildren way off the radar. I have never hankered to be a grandmother, so their single and childless status has never bothered me in the slightest.

GRAND-SMOTHERING

30/4/2021

Artist: Leigh Matson

As a child, Christmas would usually be spent at our grand-parents’ place which was a five hour drive from our place. We would all have Christmas day together and then our parents would leave me and my brother and sister there while they went off to have six weeks together. I have many memories about this time and I was pondering why it had such a strong effect on me.

STEPPING OUT OF THE MANY ROLES OF MOTHERHOOD

30/4/2021

What would it mean to step out of the roles and expectations of motherhood that we are reminded of each time Mother’s Day comes around?

Every woman has a relationship with Mother’s Day, whether we celebrate it or not. It is the one day of the year that has been designated as a special day to celebrate mothers, and everywhere we look in the weeks leading up to it, we are reminded that it is fast approaching!

TRUE FAMILY – COMMUNAL LIVING IN MY SEVENTIES

30/4/2021

Who would have guessed I would be selling my house and moving interstate at the age of 74?
I thought my house was a ‘forever home’ but over the past year or so I’ve felt 'it’s time to move … all is complete here and there’s somewhere else I need to be'. But where that was, I had no idea. What I did know was that I no longer wanted to live on my own. It had been too long and I wanted to share.

A SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT

30/10/2020

I’ve been pondering on the sense of entitlement I have at this stage of my life, in my elder years, and it’s something I’ve seen in many older people in the past. It goes with an inner dialogue that says “I’ve worked hard all my life and now I’m entitled to ….. (fill in the blanks)”. That sense of entitlement can be directed at family –especially family – younger people, the government ... and sometimes God.

FAMILY AND SELF-ENTITLEMENT

1/10/2020

Earlier this year I flew to New Zealand for my first ever visit there. (I had an amazing time!) A friend drove me to the airport in London as I’d sprained my ankle very badly and was unable to drive my manual gear car. Another friend collected me at Auckland airport, so not being able to drive initially wasn’t a problem. I then hired an automatic car which was fine as I’d hurt my left ankle. I was able to drive all around the North Island.

‘HAVING SEX’ VERSUS ‘MAKING LOVE’ – A PERSPECTIVE FROM AN OLDER WOMAN!

1/9/2020

Artist: Joseph Barker

At one stage “Fifty Shades of Grey” was the hottest book around but I had no interest at all in reading it! Not because I am in my mid-seventies and therefore past being interested in ‘sex’, but because since turning sixty I have come to know the difference between ‘having sex’ and ‘making love’ and believe as an older woman, it does not involve handcuffs, the Kama Sutra or even any Tantric teaching.

LONELINESS AS WE AGE

1/8/2020

We first noticed my mother’s forgetfulness and early stages of dementia roughly six or seven years ago. I remember my father quietly speaking to me one day, saying that he was really concerned about my mother’s mental decline. He was agitated and clearly worried, which was unusual for him. This particular day he felt like a scared little boy not knowing what was coming next – yet deep down he did know.

NATURE’S RHYTHMS

1/7/2020

Returning to connection after feeling a sense of being scattered and in disarray in the initial stages of these uncertain times...

I find myself sitting in my garden in a fragmented state of being, feeling the intensity of the energy of this Coronavirus pandemonium. Such upheaval, such imbalance. Out of sync. Trying to make sense of it all.

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IS FAMILY GOOD FOR OUR HEALTH?

LESSONS IN Love FROM A DOG

GRAND-SMOTHERING

STEPPING OUT OF THE MANY ROLES OF MOTHERHOOD

TRUE FAMILY – COMMUNAL LIVING IN MY SEVENTIES

A SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT

FAMILY AND SELF-ENTITLEMENT

‘HAVING SEX’ VERSUS ‘MAKING LOVE’ – A PERSPECTIVE FROM AN OLDER WOMAN!

LONELINESS AS WE AGE

NATURE’S RHYTHMS

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