Selectively Juggling

How do you want to retire? Oh, and young! I’d like to have the capacity, time, resources, energy and physicality needed to follow my passions. To be honest if I came into enough money today, I’d quit my job and throw myself into writing and photography. It would be brilliant to have more time to…

What’s the oldest thing you own that you still use daily? My mind, my free will, my imagination and my sense of humour. Basically, the oldest thing I own is my own unique perspective on life, all material things come and go, whereas it’s my true sense of self that remains. The years have helped…

What are you passionate about? Life …

What’s the one luxury you can’t live without? The one luxury I can’t (or don’t want to) live without is C.H.O.I.C.E – informed choice and the ability to make choices. This is real privilege, and one that requires gratitude and assertiveness, self-belief and understanding.

If you had to change your name, what would your new name be? Given my obsession with the Aurora Borealis, I would change my name to Aurora.

What fears have you overcome and how? MI’ve overcome a whole raft of fears, from fears associated with parenting a child with additional medical, cognitive and social support needs, to fears of death and dying. How? You might ask, well quite literally embracing courage, compassion, humour and an impenetrable sense of resilient tenaciousness. I faced…

Do you practice religion? No, I do not practice religion, and this is based on my conscious choice. I was raised in a religious household. I needed to undo, unlearn that dogma. I am spiritual though, and see beauty and incredible love, power and energy in nature. My church is nature, the waters, the lands,…

What are you good at? I’m pretty much a Jill of many things, but a master of none! Translated, this means I have a broad base of things I’m relatively good at, but unfortunately I don’t excel at many. It relates to an idiom or saying we have here in Australia “A jack of all…

What does “having it all” mean to you? Is it attainable? In my personal opinion no one has it all. Yes, many live lives filled with love, purpose and comfort, yet these values or markers are highly subjective, or relative. Likewise, we may look at others and think “wow, they really must have it all!”.…

Who would you like to talk to soon? Today I’d love to NOT have to talk to anyone, rather slipping out the door, armed only with my camera bag, water bottle, packed lunch and walking shoes. I’d disappear into a day of spoken silence, instead hooking in to the abundant (and sometimes discordant) sounds of…