Random thoughts of a happy brain damaged ex actress… Me!
I stared up at the massive painting in the kitchen. It was of a hyena. But this hyena was different. It seemed to have an odd kind of vulnerability to it. The Hyena is a very misunderstood creature, the artist, Peter Pharoah, believes. He always tries to paint the character of the animal or the
“Rhinos have an ancient, eternal beauty. With their massive bodies, clad in thick folds of prehistoric body armour topped by a magnificent scimitar horn, they fascinate like few other creatures……… In death, there was no trace of that beauty. The regal horn viciously hacked off with honed machetes, left the noble face crumpled and desecrated.
Wouldn’t you like to be a life saver? I would and I am hoping that I can! Let me tell you what I’m speaking about….. A couple of weeks ago, Debbie came round to lunch. She is relatively new in George and I am enjoying getting to know her. She is a bright, laughter filled
Red and yellow and pink and green Orange and purple and blue I can sing a rainbow Sing a rainbow Sing a rainbow too…… Recently I read the most incredible book Green Vanilla Tea. It is written by Marie Williams. Her husband was diagnosed with a rare neurological illness at age
I loved speaking on the phone. I used to finish my homework and then I would be on the phone to Alex, Michelle, Angie or Deidre! Mum used to get thoroughly irate with my long conversations to school friends. “Gaynor, you have just spent eight hours at school. You come home and then…phone your school
* “Sound has a profound effect on the senses. It can be both heard and felt. It can even be seen with the mind’s eye. It can almost be tasted and smelled. Sound can evoke responses of the five senses. Sound can paint a picture, produce a mood, trigger the senses to remember another
This is my one hundredth blog! I can’t believe it! My friend, ‘B’, had the idea of me creating this blog. “You have lots of writing which is just clogging up your computer. Get it out there and let people share it. And then you’ll find new things to write about. It’ll be great!” I
I am going to speak about something that is incredibly precious to me. Music! What makes this so exciting is that the music involved is an opera. An opera about my Mother and me! Let me tell you how it all came about. Rexleigh Bunyard is a musician-composer and music teacher. Out of
“But perhaps the most important lesson I learned is that there are no walls between humans and the elephants except those that we put up ourselves, and that until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.” Lawrence Anthony, The Elephant Whisperer As
* *** “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” Mahatma Gandhi *** * I am just appalled by this! The NSPCA received horrifying footage depicting the cruel and abusive training methods employed to control and train baby and young elephants for their future,
