This is my third post on the theme of my new beginnings at times of change in my life. Motherhood I had planned to be a career woman. That idea came completely unstuck in 1980 when my first baby was born. From the moment I first held him, and for the next eighteen years until… Continue reading New beginnings: Motherhood
Tag: Memories
New beginnings: adulthood
This is my second post on my theme of new beginnings at times of change in my life. Adulthood The second big change in my life was becoming an adult, moving from that secure world of a supportive family base and community, out into the scary world of reality. Rather than one single change, the… Continue reading New beginnings: adulthood
New beginnings: school
As I am facing new beginnings in my world of today on many fronts, I realise that it is not the first time that I have done so. I have faced new beginnings and challenges before. I decided to begin a theme of writing of previous "new beginnings" and what it meant at those times… Continue reading New beginnings: school
Motherhood
MEMORIES I hear the sound of their laughter, riding their bikes down the path. I hear their squeals of joy, playing rubber duckies in the bath. I hear them playing 'squeaky games'; in the car, at the park, at the beach. I hear the sound of the piano, to the depths of my soul,… Continue reading Motherhood
New Beginnings – Community Activism
New chapters in life generally have phases. Letting go of the old life. A transition tug between old and new. Then moving onto the new. Sometimes it does not happen like that. Such was the day when they began logging the valley opposite to where we lived. I was thrust into this next era of… Continue reading New Beginnings – Community Activism
Leonie Elizabeth 