It’s a living thing….

Conversations with your children often bring up long forgotten memories)

Summer 1978 – The Golfer and I were the best parents in the world! 

At least that’s what we were told that warm February evening as we all sat near the front (not up the back ‘in the cheap seats’ on the grass) of the Myer Music Bowl waiting to hear this sung in real life

Sailin’ away on the crest of a wave, it’s like magic 
Oh, rollin’ and ridin’ and slippin’ and slidin’, it’s magic 
And you and your sweet desire 
You took me, oh (higher and higher, baby)…

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It’s nearly four years since ‘our big girl’ and her partner left town (towing their home behind them) looking forward to doing ’a big lap’ of Australia. 

After a year on the road she mentioned that so far they’d had the time of their lives.

Yes, so far, is what she said – at that time decisions were being been made and they were soon to be off again to give it another go and see some of the things they missed. 
Impressions at that time (2022) – contrary to what some may have said – everything’s alive out there. 

Even during Covid times….Australia was a living thing!
(Cue 1978 memory)
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At that time I wondered how I’d feel when the words Good Bye were spoken again. There were mixed feelings on my part when they drove off…….. ever since she was young child we’d provided her with roots and wings which she’d acknowledged several times so I was comfortable waving her off………it was just that I knew they were looking for something different but didn’t know what……and of course when after another year had passed and they reached the other side, the far western side of Australia they knew that they had found it……that was the place they wanted to be.

She’s been back since then (latest Oct ‘24) – knowing they are living The Dream (their way) makes it easier to say those two words but it always leaves me in a reflective mood, wondering if time is running out – wondering if I’ve lived all my dreams, – are there any more waves for me to crest’?

How about you – do you ever feel like life is passing you by?

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