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25.01.2022 I share this piece of Wise Writing in the name of a very dear friend Alan Weinstien who should have been here with us on our land with his gorgeous young daughter right now, but due to Covid-19 protective concerns for our family, which ultimately were not required, they put off coming. Sadly we will not 'see' Alan again in this physical realm because he unexpectedly died a couple of days ago. As time passes it becomes harder not easier to face his loss, as I realise the love ...and compassion that Alan brought to mine and my families life. God speed lovely man. You have left a very Special Legacy in the living of your life. Thank you. "The Buddha once said that you could search the whole world and not find anyone more deserving of your love and compassion than yourself. Instead, too many people find themselves directing levels of harshness, demand, and judgment inward that they would never dream of directing toward another person, knowing the harm that would be incurred. They are willing to do to themselves what they would not do to others. In the pursuit of an idealized compassion, many people can neglect themselves. Compassion listens to the cries of the world, and we are part of that world. The path of compassion does not ask us to abandon ourselves on the altar of an idealized state of perfection. A path of healing makes no distinctions: within the sorrow of our own frustrations, disappointments, fears, and bitterness, we learn the lessons of patience, acceptance, generosity, and ultimately, compassion." See more

25.01.2022 Apologies - Haven't been able to communicate clearly for a while now. The grief which lives all around us in the aftermath of the bush fires has made it difficult to think clearly. After finding a dead koala right next to our dam 3 days ago, knowing it was only one of hundreds of them who lived here, and may well have been the beautiful healthy guy we videoed climbing the tree only weeks before the fires I feel so deeply responsible for not having been able to protect them, or any of the other - estimated from professional counts per hectare - 875 mammals, 1,035 birds and 6,475 reptiles that would have called this land home. Deep grief at what we humans have created.

25.01.2022 Precious Stillness - I wish this for you all.

24.01.2022 As a grandparent this painting is deeply touching

24.01.2022 Simon Jongenotter has written some wonderfully wise words in his understanding of where we currently are in the world.

23.01.2022 We all get tired sometimes!!

22.01.2022 The Butterfly Nebula - This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts NGC 6302, commonly known as the Butterfly Nebula. NGC 6302 lies within our Milky Way galaxy, roughly 3800 light-years away in the constellation of Scorpius. The glowing gas was once the star's outer layers, but has been expelled over about 2200 years. The butterfly shape stretches for more than two light-years, which is about half the distance from the Sun to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri.... New observations of the object have found unprecedented levels of complexity and rapid changes in the jets and gas bubbles blasting off of the star at the centre of the nebula. Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Kastner (RIT)

22.01.2022 My niece Chani Crow has just posted this. I think you may well love what she has on here: "So excited to have my blog back online!! Its been almost two years since losing my domain and over 7 years worth of work. Huge thanks to my clever Uncle Charlie who did magic computer tricks to bring it back from the ether www.onceuponanartroom.net

22.01.2022 " Remembering Mum We grow up thinking our mums will always be there and for all their strength and resilience you could be forgiven for thinking they're immortal. But some leave us far too soon and today we celebrate their lives too. Huge thanks to @FeeltheMagic for helping us with this story and helping these incredible kids. To find out more about their grief education support services check out www.feelthemagic.org.au "

21.01.2022 I feel sure this ongoing story will be as boring to you as it has become for me. Nonetheless I want to give you an update on my eye injury - 32 days later. To explain why I have still been unable to complete silver fingerprint jewellery for people which I long to get done. Yet again I had to go to John Hunter Hospital Emergency Dept last night to have the abscess in my eye lanced, and will have to go back again on Wednesday to the eye clinic. This is the 5th operation I have ...had on my 'bush fire fences cleaning up' damaged eye. 3 x to have wood removed and 2 x to have the abscess lanced. I feel pretty sure that all of the wood is out now. At least I trust so. The rest is all about healing. I am so grateful I did not lose my eye, which could so easily have happened. Yes totally ironic to be dealing with the importance of eye sight in the year 20/20. And yes I have asked myself what have I not been seeing. It has been truely humbling to realise that what I have not been seeing is 'myself' and my innate need to take time to create my own artwork. I have been too focused outwardly and not enough inwardly, and this injury has 'shown' me how that this imbalance does not serve me. "The quieter you become, the more you can see" See more

19.01.2022 Be kind to each other. The world is experiencing many confronting experiences and our gentleness with each other is paramount to making our way through. "Bereavement is a time to reach within ourselves for as much understanding and compassion as we can for the sometimes baffling responses of those around us."

19.01.2022 A special apology to my customers whose work is on hold at the moment. It seems to have been one thing after another for a while now that has interrupted a steady and easy flow of The Memory Smith work. A few days ago I was driving the tractor clearing an area on our property for the next lot of fencing required on our 3.5 km journey of needing to pull down bush fire burnt fences and trees and putting in new fences. A branch of a tree wiped forward from the canopy of the tra...ctor and hit me straight on, in the eye, with a massive hit. It required an eye specialist to pull out the last bit of wood from the white of my eye, and a lot of resting to heal my very bruised and cut eye. Consequently I have been unable to follow up on anything over the last few days. Please accept my apologies and know that as soon as I can get back to work I shall be doing so. Warm wishes to you all Trypheyna PS With all the corona virus stuff currently happening sadly so many people impacted by the shocking bush fires have been left behind in terms of follow up care. If you know anyone in this situation please reach out them and make sure they are okay. There has sadly been a massive impact on people's mental health, which is going unseen, and un-cared for.

19.01.2022 Christmas can be a very difficult time following the death of your child. "It's a brutal reminder of how things should have been," says Priyanka Calvert. Her da...ughter, Lily, died when she was 10 months and 15-days-old from Miller Dieker Syndrome. As a way to help fellow bereaved parents cope with this time of year, she has penned down her tips for surviving the festive season. You can read her latest blog post here: https://lilycalvert.com//surviving-the-festive-season-whe/ See more

19.01.2022 What a magic way to support Regan.

18.01.2022 There is nothing more powerful than the Love of a Mother

18.01.2022 What brilliant memories this woman must have xxx

17.01.2022 My book 'The Intimacy of Death and Dying' has a deeply touching story in it where the family so wished they had really understood about organ donation before turning the life support system off and their young son died. "Chloe had walked into the living room while Mr Myors was watching a news story about a young girl who desperately needed an organ donation. Chloe mentioned that she wanted to help the little girl and the family wound up discussing the idea of dying and donati...ng organs. "Chloe just took that idea in her stride. That's the sort of girl she was. Always helping out," Mr Myors said. It was this conversation that ultimately helped the Myors sign over their precious daughter's organs to help save children who still had a chance at life. "It's not easy as a parent to walk your child into an operating theatre and know they're not coming back," Mr Myors said. "But she changed the lives of five other kids in our community."

15.01.2022 What incredible memories must be created for people living with this in their environment.

13.01.2022 "How relationships can change when death is imminent - Lynn became a hospice volunteer in 1985, after both his wife and father died of lung cancer. My current wife and I are both hospice volunteers in Williamsburg, Virginia, he says. And we have two Bernese mountain dogs who work as therapy dogs with us in the hospitals and nursing homes. Lynn doesn’t deny that losing a loved one is extremely heartbreaking. When my first wife was dying of lung cancer, I grieved deeply, ...he says. Experiencing the need for comfort during this difficult time in his life was part of what inspired him to be there for others. Just as people live in different ways, people die in different ways. But something Lynn has noticed in his work is that dying patients often prioritize relationships in a way they didn’t earlier in their lives. Something I often see is that many people want to make amends and improve relationships that have been damaged, he says. Family members who haven’t talked in years may start communicating regularly. Grudges are dismissed, replaced by forgiveness and peace."

13.01.2022 Thank you TMS Customers BY TRYPHEYNA MCSHANE | FEB 11, 2020 | BLOG | 0 COMMENTS All you wonderful The Memory Smith customers Please forgive me. In the aftermath of the bush fires I’ve found myself struggling. Thinking that I would be able to get back to my work quicker than has proven to be the case, has surprised me greatly and humbled me beyond words....Continue reading

12.01.2022 That Wanaka Tree. A solitary tree on Lake WanakaLake Wanaka, New Zealand Photo: Rach Stewart (@rachstewartnz)

12.01.2022 Social distancing, cockatoo style

10.01.2022 What an Extraordinary Family. Thank you Levi for the Incredible Legacy you have left for so many other children. xxx

10.01.2022 A street artist draws a work of art: "the invisibility of poverty". A masterpiece.

09.01.2022 Such great wisdom

09.01.2022 Hi All Trypheyna's husband Alex here. I want to give you an update on Trypheyna's eye injury which happened when she was clearing one of our 3.5 kms of bush fire ravaged fences with the tractor.... Unfortunately as you may know she was severely hit straight into her right eye by a burnt branch. Thank goodness it went into the white of her eye and not her pupil. Even so she had to have an operation to remove a chunk of wood from her eye and then 7-10 days later they had to cut it open and remove more wood. She has desperately wanted it to heal so she can create your pieces for you. She has been in pain and was concerned something was wrong. Unfortunately today her eye needed operating on again to lance an abscess where the wood had gone in. (Not great the day before her birthday!) We are all intending this will be the final step needed on her road to full recovery. She wants me to apologise to you for it taking so long to get your pieces to you. I'll let you know when she's able to start work again. Thank you for your patience. Stay safe Alex

09.01.2022 What utter magic to see and read about this beautiful girl, especially after collecting the dead body of a koala only feet from our dam

08.01.2022 17-6-2020 Unfortunately for me the bush fires were not the end of the story. The next part of the story which occurred right in the middle of the Covid-19 outbreak went like this: On the first of May 2020 I had a serious eye injury, while clearing our bush fire burnt 3.5 kms of fences with the tractor. A tree smashed straight into my eye. It's taken 6 operations and 40 days to finally allow my eye to heal: 3 operations to remove wood from my eye and 2 operations to lance ...abscesses that had formed. The last operation, the toughest, has turned out to be the most rewarding. This much longer eye operation, without local aesthetic, 10 days ago, was where a top specialist from John Hunter Hospital operated to cut out the cyst that had grown on top of the injury, probably encasing yet more wood, at his rooms on the Central Coast. Not much fun but a great outcome!! When I took the patch off my eye 24 hours after operation it was the first time I haven't felt something was still in my eye. So now I'm slowly getting back to completing my long overdue Memory Smith work. In amongst looking after my daughter’s 2 year daughter, as her mother prepares to give birth I've now managed two half days of catching up on the paperwork and orders, from all you beautifully patient people, and hope to start making pieces as of tomorrow. I am sincerely grateful to you all for your care and support on this long journey. TO BEAUTIFUL NEW BEGININGS FOR US ALL. (for me with a new Soul arriving) I know that these have been really tough times for so many of you and I send you Love and Light in a world that even if it sometimes seems unbelievably difficult to see, is in fact FULL OF LOVE. Special wishes Trypheyna 22-6-20 I am absolutely thrilled to be able to give a wonderful update to the above story: I am so incredibly proud of my daughter Anastazia. I'm not sure how many women can claim to be a second generation water birthing woman, doing it all naturally. You did brilliantly and with a pretty large delivery. So with this magic outcome - for Alex and I - it now becomes 5 not 4 of these delicious grandchildren. Thanks for the beautiful gift Ben and Anastazia and her precious older sister.

05.01.2022 The way forward. Australia please help us on the ground to to do this after the bush fires

05.01.2022 "Coronavirus is hardly the first widespread human tragedy, though it’s the first in a long time to impact the entire world in similar ways at the same time. In the decades to come, many countries may consider how to remember the victims of COVID-19, though if history is a guide, many probably won’t; Memorials to soldiers who died during wars the last century are much more common than memorials to the 1918 flu, which killed millions around the world, or any other pandemic the ...last 100 years. Maybe that is because it’s easier, even preferable, to remember people who died doing something visibly momentous something that somehow feels larger instead of being overcome by respiratory distress. The records you are keeping will be a resource for historians, says Mark Honigsbaum, a medical historian and author of several books on pandemics. One of the stories we are going to tell is of the tremendous suffering and sacrifice. Sacrifice is a repeated theme of Lives Lost, particularly among health care workers who died taking risks to treat suffering coronavirus patients. They include Dr. Roberto Stella in Italy, who trained a generation of general practitioners in Lombardy, even organizing a course on COVID-19 before becoming the first Italian doctor to die after attending to patients. Or Dr. Ahmed el-Lawah, a pillar of the community in the Egyptian city of Port Said and a father figure beyond his family, who also died after getting infected by a patient. When this pandemic is over, and life returns to normal, the biggest scar will be all the lives lost. Regardless of how societies collectively remember in the future, for families and friends losing loved ones, the pain is now."

04.01.2022 In Memory of all those who have found it too painful to stay - The same sort of statistics will be relevant here in Australia - "According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 47,173 Americans killed themselves during 2017, which is higher in both number and percentage of the population than at any time since the CDC’s earliest published statistics in 1950. Today, there are two suicides for every homicide death, and 17 percent more suicide deaths per year than deaths from motor-vehicle incidents."

04.01.2022 "‘When I walk down the street, I look like a normal person with a normal life. Two kids in the pram, the older one walking. So it’s very easy to assume everything is normal.’ When Emily talks to people about her experience, she tries to convey one thing: Go easy on people, because you don’t know what they’re going through. ‘That ordinary woman might have just lost a husband. That man might have lost a brother,’ she said."

04.01.2022 Isn't our Earth exquisite

04.01.2022 "I exist because we exist." Obonato

04.01.2022 Thank you Jarah Tree for the wisdom you bring to this time in which as you so aptly point out there are far more Quest-ions than answers, but the one thing we all know we can do is LOVE. xxx

03.01.2022 I absolutely love this project. It brings the joy of Nature back into people's lives when they are having such a tough time. I'm not surprised that the guy cried about it being his greatest gift to the world through his work, above and beyond heaps of top scientific work.

02.01.2022 This is so exquisite.