The words I never heard: I have always had a very powerful connection to music. I love it. Portals into other peoples heart. Some songs are the poetry of my soul expressed through another persons musical gifts. One day I unearthed Van Morrison’s album, Tupelo Honey and just played it over and over and over.…
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I AM AN ARTIST / I AM A MOTHER / I AM BOTH AT THE SAME TIME. I want to muse on the assumption that women need to compartmentalise their lives, and men for that matter too. Business in this corner, having babies and raising them over in the other corner. But in truth it…
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Up before the Kookaburras this morning to drive the winding accession. I experience re-membrane body memory as I drive. Like an autopilot that says ‘I’ve got this’. Town after town of friends I could just stop off to reconnect. I blow silent kisses as I pass their neighborhood promising myself that they’d understand that I…
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Tara Darlington from Women’s Network Radio interviewed me about what it is to be a working mother and a feminist and why love the work I do. Do you sometimes feel like your walking to the beat of someone else’s drum? How would it feel to unleash yourself, to remove the ceilings, the floors, the proverbial…
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I have been reading different research from different areas about motherhood and it is interested that there is a huge emphasis on career v’s motherhood and many of researchers and writers talking about ‘opting out of career in favour of motherhood’ or ‘opting out of mother hood to return to their career’. They ask women…
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It is International Breast Feeding Awareness Week Hey! Like most things that are important to me I feel every day is awareness day. I personally do not have to be aware of breastfeeding because, to me it is breathing, to me it is life, it is so obvious. However it shows up, wherever it is…
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