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Be Strong, see the world….

It’s the end of the holidays for most kids in the Southern Hemisphere.  We head into Australia Day,which for some of the population is seen as invasion day.  In a couple of weeks I will begin teaching RE classes again, and the kids are having the last hurrah of free time.

It’s been five years since I finished a Phd and then retired from academia for a time.  What have I done in that time? Should I go back?  These are all questions facing me now.  This year will be a year for looking at the cross roads and deciding what I can be doing.

This week I will rewrite my cv and do what is called a skills audit.  I will be interviewing myself about my future.  I am of course, taking my family into account,  and thinking what do they want to do, and thinking yes I need to balance it all, in the wheel of life that I now build.

I am so lucky that Hawkeye is such a supportive husband and is now a wonderful teacher who is sure of what he wants to do, and quite flexible, you need teachers everywhere.

Well what have I done?  So much of what I have done is on this blog, which I began as we set out for North Queensland, and a new life, both of us were leaving academia to find our own sea change.

In the coming months I will reflect on the last four years in North Queensland to find our new direction as a family, savouring all the wonderful things about the sea change and the reason we may now be considering whether its really where we want to be for the next ten years.

Over the holidays I went back to the place of my childhood- Tasmania.   There my daughter learnt traditional dance and beading from my Mum – things Mum never taught to me.  I was happy for her.  For me though it was always going to be the power of words and whatever profession I end up in words will need to play a role.  Yet not just words, words that make you want to change things, do things, go places and be an even more caring, giving person.

If you are at this point in your life as well, be assured so many of us- are at the cross roads, not to mention that our world is as well.   We decide our future, and as Avatar reminds so many – we need to ’see each other’ , and I add hear each other, write each other to find the destiny written of by the prophets and philosophers- a destiny where we can build a world able to cope with a Haiti, rebuild and go further than any before to unite our planet.

At my cross roads it’s not just words but actions to build such a world that motivates me.  All my writing comes from a place where there is stillness and listening.  Listening to what- to the heart beat of the world, the land, my family, my extended family, my faith, my community and my soul. It’s not always easy, sometimes things are said I don’t want to hear or know because they cause such a lot of pain, and there’s not always a chance to change those things as they may not be my fault or responsibility.  Yet, there are things I can change and can be responsible for and care about, and the ability to do this, and to be motivated is important.

In my past, present and in my future there is a prayer, a stillness, a listening to what the future tells me it wants.

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