As I boarded my ‘mystery flight’ I was painfully aware that I was unsure where I was actually going… I knew Alor Setar was 90 km north of Penang, but that was all I knew. I was invited to give a keynote on 21st Century knowledge, skills and capabilities. I was unaware of who the [...]
I can’t work out what the fuss is about… Everyone seems to be running around my bed, anxious, giving me attention. I really just want to get up and paint, colour my palette, dream of scenes in my minds eye and get busy….can’t everyone leave me alone for a while! My name is Peggy Eileen [...]
We just completed the gruelling Oxfam Trailwalker 100km event over the weekend. We walked for 38 hours including a five-hour sleep break. The first day took us through the highest part of the course after the 1000 steps. The second day after the five-hour rest/sleep proved to be a punishing day on our feet and the last two [...]
There's something unsettling, uncomfortable and final about selling the family house, the only stable home I have known, where my late parents lived most of their lives. Having lived in eighteen different houses across three countries, one stable house has meaning - significant meaning! It's just a house.... but the walls hold and embrace stories [...]
We begin naked and exposed to the eyes, until we layer a veneer over the skin, each layer on top of each other. Both have many layers upon their skin, some by choice, some by design, some to guard and some that unexpectedly adhere and remain and are difficult to shake. The veneers have occurred [...]
A long hallway lead to the 7th floor open area apartment decorated with black leather furniture, bright coloured cushions, art from various countries and mobile art in the form of jostling cosmopolitan people chatting in their groups, drinking expensive red wine and eating sushi. A Kandinsky took pride of place on a wall and red-figured [...]
Words are not enough to capture the devotion, kindness, thoughtfulness and unselfishness of a mother. Fond memories of encouraging looks, loving eyes and encouraging gestures flood the mind and heart. An amazing spirit, insatiable reader and artistic mind characterise her deliberate actions and mindful devotion to her children. Although she has aged she still puts [...]
Astrand felt dazed, groggy and a little unaware of where he was…he could feel that he was lying in a bed but had no recollection of how he had arrived here. He searched the room with his eyes, darting back and forth across the beige painted room without a hint of a painting, a photo [...]
The best way to describe Dad was that he ‘marched to the beat of a different drummer’. He was born on the 21st January, 1923 in Toowoomba and the Darling Downs forever stayed in his blood. As a family we jokingly say 1923 as he had three different birth certificates. He was either 88, 89 [...]
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens”. Peggy’s attitude to life was beyond comparison. Peggy Eileen O’Connor was born in Warwick on July [...]
