SubscribeOk. Are you ready? At the risk of making a fool of myself ….. I am hooked on The Biggest Loser. I know what those of you that have known me in real life will think. I am after all the girl that didn’t own a television for 5 years. I used to gloat about [...]
The View from Down Here
The musings of an Aussie seeing the world from waist high.... from a wheelchair
Month: March, 2009
I landed
We have landed in Melbourne. It was the most ordinary and seemless unload I’ve ever done. Thanks Qantas
Op Ed
My work requires a lot of advocacy. Usually systemic in nature. Arguing the case for the holistic inclusion of the needs of people with disabilities into the way places do business. Trying to make it easy for the decision makers to look good and if your very lucky understand why such policies will work.
It requires [...]
St Thomas said
What you bring forth out of yourself from the inside will save you. What you do not bring forth out of yourself will destroy you
A library all my own
I have been sporadically following Tony’s blog for at least 18 months now. He is a Church of England vicar from Oxford who wouldn’t know me from a bar of soap. I like the way he thinks.
In a recent post about Lent he said;
But then came the double whammy. Alison informed me that what I [...]
Views from the edges Part 1
I was there yesterday. squeezed into the back of the church for the funeral of one of my inspirations; Matt Laffan That was hard. The fact he was only 7 years older than me and died of complications from his disability is even harder.
