Recovery. It is not a great experience. By definition, something bad had to happen first. Everyone goes through it at some point. Whether it is recovery from a serious illness or injury, grief, addiction or any of the other misfortunes that can strike us down. I was lucky enough to live a fairly blessed existence for much of my life and avoided a lot of these obstacles until recently. I was quite surprised by some of the things I found difficult about it and the strategies I needed to use to stay positive through the experience. I thought I would share my observations in the hope they can be helpful to others.
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I was really interested to see what happened with this game. I actually think both of these teams have the players on paper to match any team in the competition on their day. What I suspect lets them down is team consistency and the occasional lack of tactical cohesion. After being thereabouts for a few years, neither team was going to be happy to go out in week one of the finals and I wished both could have somehow progressed. While neither coach is quite at Mick Malthouse’s level of aggression in media interviews, I could see the losing coach at least matching Serena Williams and being about as amused as the Pacific Island leaders were with Peter Dutton’s sense of humour. Brad Scott’s decision to rest a number of players last week drew more opinionated media discussion that the Chinese Free Trade Agreement last week (that is barely even a joke and almost a sad indictment on our society) so how the roos responded would be another interesting subplot.
Read Full Article Alright, when I started this website, this was one topic, due to its complexity, that I thought I would avoid. Now I’m going to have a go at talking about it. I know it is an extremely controversial and politicised subject that people feel very strongly about, so I am no doubt going to invite criticism from both the left and the right of the political spectrum, but I feel it is time to express a view.
Read Full article I am lucky enough to add the words of Matt's sister Nicole, who so impressed me with her strength and courage both on the day of the funeral and in the preceding few weeks. I had originally thought I might put both eulogies on the same page, but decided these words needed a page of their own.
Read full eulogy At this point in the season, I have about as much confidence in the bombers as the Liberal Party seems to have in Joe Hockey, and after Richmond’s smashing of the pies last week, I wondered if a blowout was on the cards. So while I was wondering whether Essendon resistance would disappear quicker than Operation Fortitude, I wasn’t totally convinced that it would happen at all. Richmond’s may be a bit too good to be true (a bit like Damien Mantach) as last week’s scoreline flattered them and disguised the fact that their midfield was unable to really control the game.
It was pretty wet before the game and conditions for the opening bounce looked awful with the resulting football about as attractive as a hipster beard/ man bun combination. Both teams were finding it hard to get the ball out of defence easily with clearances coming back more often than an ageing rocker without enough superannuation. Read full article Our heroes never really leave us. They live on in the memories they leave behind. And Matt was truly a hero. Despite the sad occasion, I can only describe it as an honour to speak about Matt.
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I realised that the website was getting a little difficult to keep track of and people would have no way of keeping track of which new posts were recent. I will use this page to display links to any new articles from now on.
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