If I asked you all the things you did and though about last
month it’s unlikely you’d remember, so if you can’t recall them now, how will
you remember all those little moments of life that make it so great, next year?
Write it down, your memory bank will thank you for it in a decade.
Making: Great memories and
wonderful friends on weekends away.
Drinking: Wine. Popped into a winery, Mt Avoca Wines
to be exact, tasted what I thought I might enjoy the most, told myself I really
would enjoy it, and bought it instantly. They also gave us a little tour of the
winery, it’s actually an
organically made wine, but certification is just so difficult to get!
Doing: Took Miss 10 to see Matilda at the theatre,
it was brilliant. Clever songs, talented kids, a fun storyline and many laughs,
highly recommend it.
Reading: I’d like to tell you how I am reading
A little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, but really I am just reading the first few
pages over and over as I decide if I am ready to launch into this book that has
so many people talking. It’s a big one and it’s going
to take some time to get through.
Wanting: a clean car, not that I am really sure I remember what that’s
like.
Looking: At the ocean from
the beach house we stayed in at Airey’s Inlet and wishing we made the trip to
the beach more often.
Playing: Headbandz. This is a
great game to play after dinner with friends and with kids. We went away for a
weekend with friends and played a few rounds, the little kids can get some
question ideas from the cards and the adults start getting worked up that they
just can’t figure it out.
Play it, your kids will love you for it. You
will laugh, it’s good for you.
Deciding: Having a holiday house would be so wonderful, but having friends
with holiday houses all over the place is even more wonderful and taking friends to where you like to holiday is pretty good too!
Wishing: There is so much
inequity around us. SO MUCH. But there is one that really shits me. The cost of
medications. Once, when I had my very own Dad dying of a super rare blood
cancer, he needed a drug that cost $7500 per injection, he needed that
injection every week. But, the people in
the chair beside him who had a more common blood cancer, they just had to pay
$6.50, for the very same drug. My Dad, he was lucky/unlucky to get a double
diagnosis within a few days, telling him he had TWO types of blood cancer, the
oncologist was so happy, this meant he could get the drug straight away and not
have to hope to get on a clinical trial.
Of course, my Dad’s blood didn’t care about all
this and had it’s own plans. But it’s happening all the
time. There are people all over Australia who get hit with the unlucky stick so
badly, first they get cancer, then they are told it’s a really rare cancer (so we probably
don’t know how to beat
it) then they get told ‘sorry, you got the
wrong cancer, so you don’t get any medicine.
It’s just awful. So in
April, and always, I am wishing for fairness in medication for everyone.
Enjoying: the dancing concerts my kids are making up.
Wondering: If newspapers will come back in fashion?
Or decent magazines? If quality is produced, would consumers buy it?
Loving: Small country towns, their history and their
opportunities.
Pondering: When twitter will be finished.
Considering: school uniforms, I
love them, but I hate them. I want them, but not every day. They look so sweet,
their purpose is so outdated, they make mornings so much easier, they are
rarely weather appropriate.
Buying: presents, and nearly
getting them to the recipients on time. Nearly.
Watching: the last of Call the Midwife. Possibly the
best series of all time, but sadly that’s the end of it. I miss my
friends at Nonatus House.
Noticing: the colours of Autumn. Not every country
gets to experience the natural beauty of a Victorian Autumn.
Knowing: My ten year old can win a cross country
race if the bribe is high enough.
Thinking: I love day light saving time, but it’s over for now and I just have to get through the dark times.
Admiring: People who just say yes and find a way to make
everything happen.
Disliking: Clothes needing to be dried inside.
Opening: very few books.
Feeling: So happy with all the travel and getaways for
the month.
Snacking: dark chocolate with orange, I love you.
Questioning: Have you ever watched Schindlers List?
You know how you watch it and you think, why didn’t all the Germans act
like this, why didn’t more good people just do what they could to
stop the horrendous from happening? You watch it and you like to think that if
you were there, you’d be the Oskar Schindler, you’d be the good person, you’d never just turn your
eyes away while people were sent to camps where they were just forgotten
about. The movie ends and you’re glad that those days are no longer.
Except they aren’t really are they? It’s just different people
in the camps. Camps run by our very own country.
And on that note, we leave April 2016 with the
hope that during the coming election campaign there will be many Oskar
Schindler type voices and compassion will finally win.