I have a personal goal for capturing personal moments in time that I hold dearly to myself that I am able to recall and thank that I can feel them at any given moment.
Sounds a bit philosophical, but let me explain. I was recently in Yallingup celebrating my wife's cousins 50th birthday with a lunch at Lancers, having travelled down with my son, his wife and my grandson, Hamish.
On Sunday morning, Hamey had just been fed, bathed and was a little unhappy with life...crying for reasons that no adult can understand, but looking for something. I took him off his parents and went outside from the beach front chalet we were staying in and stood watching the ocean. Just me and my grandson.
The wind was blowing, cool, but not cold. The sun was up and warming his back. The sound of the sea one can listen to forever. And then I started to speak to him. Just a comforting grandfather speaking to his grandson and within an instant he had not only settled, but was looking over my shoulder at the ocean, watching a seagull and for a short period of time, we were connected in no other way that anyone can describe.
For that special moment in time, we bonded. We looked at each other, a smile came onto his lips, I smiled back, and it was done, moment captured to last the rest of my life.
The smile, however, was a front for Hamish throwing up on my jumper... but it was my moment only shared by us.
Then out of the blue we..., I like that, 'we' saw a whale swim past with her calf about 200 metres offshore. Both coming up for a breath simultaneously, and I felt connected to nature. Perhaps it also was a grandfather looking after his grandson! who knows, but it was my special moment in time.
I have many special moments in time and can recall them all.
Whats yours!
Sunday, August 22, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
What was she thinking
I have no idea why someone who was supposed to sue David Jones for $37 million for sexual harassment would even consider hiring a publicist. Kristy Fraser-Kirk has been offered less than $1m to settle the issue.
Will she, won't she. Lose and she'll have a multi-million dollar fee to pay lawers. Win and she'll get no more than about $500k. Accept the milion, she'll be seen to have sold out for money and be seen to have been in it for the money.
She will be tarnished either way for the person who decided to sue DJ for $37 m and who would want to hire her. A Women's group, book club or other.
She did the right thing by saying NO. She did the wrong thing by demanding money as compensation, and a great deal more than has been paid anywhere in the world.
Why did she do it. Young, naive, given the wrong advice, watched too many American movies, who knows.
But her future is clear. She'll be the person who will end up the victim.
Will she be able to get a job after this or go on to the speaking circuit as a womens right activist, her life will change.
What should she have done then...
Will she, won't she. Lose and she'll have a multi-million dollar fee to pay lawers. Win and she'll get no more than about $500k. Accept the milion, she'll be seen to have sold out for money and be seen to have been in it for the money.
She will be tarnished either way for the person who decided to sue DJ for $37 m and who would want to hire her. A Women's group, book club or other.
She did the right thing by saying NO. She did the wrong thing by demanding money as compensation, and a great deal more than has been paid anywhere in the world.
Why did she do it. Young, naive, given the wrong advice, watched too many American movies, who knows.
But her future is clear. She'll be the person who will end up the victim.
Will she be able to get a job after this or go on to the speaking circuit as a womens right activist, her life will change.
What should she have done then...
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Come what may...
Life throws many interesting curve balls at each and every one of us and yet, know one knows exactly what to expect or what will happen.
I look at my new, shiny and precious grandson and want to wrap him in cotton-wool and make sure the world doesn't spoil this bundle of love.
As I watch a program about a young girl on 60 minutes, who having fluid drained from her brain at 4 years of age, she started having compulsive fitting, whereby her mother, under medical advice, had literally half her brain removed.
They interviewed someone else who had half her brain removed, now in her late twenties, and without much use of her left side of her body, she can still drive, recently completed her Masters degree and is a ten-pin bowling champion.
The funny moment was when she stated that as the missing half created a cavity in her head, which later filled with spinal fluid, if she moves too quickly, she said there's a kind of 'sloshing' sound, humour - still intact.
We have such a gift of life that to abuse, misuse or even neglect it seems futile in having a reasonably healthy life in the first place.
Now consider organ donation, some people have the misfortune of not having such a healthy existence whereby their bodies break down and don't function normally. Unlike a car, spare parts can't be picked up off the shelf and replaced so easily.
Hence, the need for people to honestly say that their organs can be and are free to be used upon their death, now that's a gift you can't buy for someone, a new lease of life.
The upcoming project bodes well for reasoning out the registration of organ donation, but the truth is, people are cautious and unaware of the simplicity or ability to register for organ donation.
PR people, that's now your task.
I look at my new, shiny and precious grandson and want to wrap him in cotton-wool and make sure the world doesn't spoil this bundle of love.
As I watch a program about a young girl on 60 minutes, who having fluid drained from her brain at 4 years of age, she started having compulsive fitting, whereby her mother, under medical advice, had literally half her brain removed.
They interviewed someone else who had half her brain removed, now in her late twenties, and without much use of her left side of her body, she can still drive, recently completed her Masters degree and is a ten-pin bowling champion.
The funny moment was when she stated that as the missing half created a cavity in her head, which later filled with spinal fluid, if she moves too quickly, she said there's a kind of 'sloshing' sound, humour - still intact.
We have such a gift of life that to abuse, misuse or even neglect it seems futile in having a reasonably healthy life in the first place.
Now consider organ donation, some people have the misfortune of not having such a healthy existence whereby their bodies break down and don't function normally. Unlike a car, spare parts can't be picked up off the shelf and replaced so easily.
Hence, the need for people to honestly say that their organs can be and are free to be used upon their death, now that's a gift you can't buy for someone, a new lease of life.
The upcoming project bodes well for reasoning out the registration of organ donation, but the truth is, people are cautious and unaware of the simplicity or ability to register for organ donation.
PR people, that's now your task.
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