Sunday Blog 253 – 4th October 2026 A quote from my latest read. I thought of my neighbour whose beloved husband was snatched away within months of a pancreatic cancer diagnosis. I read it out today as we gathered to farewell him at one of his favourite places to bush walk at one of the …
Tag Archives: grief
Collective effervescence and heartbreak
Sunday Blog 252 – 27th September 2026 I had thought collective effervescence was a term coined by Brene Brown, mais non. It was the French sociologist Émile Durkheim who created the expression to articulate the shared experience of religious worshop. Brene has enlarged its use to encompass the feeling we get in a crowd, say …
Family threads
Sunday Blog 208 – 9th November 2025 My mother was a diarist. At the end of the day she sat at the kitchen table or perhaps on her comfortable armchair with her meal tray as a desk. She’d write about the intricate doings of each day in her week-to-a-page diary. What letters had arrived, phone …
Letting the sorrow ripen
Sunday Blog 198 – 17th August 2025 This week I’ve been to Melbourne for a two-day meeting which I had intrepidly volunteered to co-chair, then I played catch-up with other work and volunteering commitments and worked on my final assignment for my first unit of a creative writing graduate certificate. As I’ve been focusing on …
Long, bright shadow
Sunday Blog 184 – 11th May 2025 Sunday Blog 184 – 11th May 2025 Can a long, bright shadow be a thing? If so, that’s what my Mum cast over my life, leaving a trail of constructive kindness and unconditional acceptance. Not to mention whimsical remnants of 1940s teen slang such as “I’m all gog-wozzled” …
Our headlines change…
Sunday Blog 60 – 6th November 2022 There is a trigger warning on this post as it talks about grief, sexual assault and trying to make a difference from the traumas that we experience. Please take care when reading or feel free to scroll on by. I can only guess that it was around 10am …