love and connection

Lying in bed awake at 12:30am

Pondering love. 

Such a comfy state. 

When one is together. 

The song mickey has a line:"you take me by the heart when you take me by the hand" and its so true. 

There's an emptiness when one is apart. 

Going back in time, there's a huge ache, grief when it breaks apart.  Possibly visualise like when one rips a loaf of bread in half both halves have jaggered edges.  Maybe why when relationships end there's all the constituents of grief - anger, sadness, denial, bargaining, depression. Sometimes so intense that they are all piled ontop of each other all at once. 

Love stitches two people together. Healing the torn wounds of the soul. Creating something new.  Close.  Very close. Two become one. 

All of this is a selfish love. It's all about me. Even when Freddie Mercury crys:"find me someone to love", it's all about him. 

In the silence I ask myself, what does she want? What does she need? What does she feel? What can I do for her?

Tour de Brisbane

4:50 wake

Breakfast.

Load bike

5:30 depart Corinda 

600 drop Henry round the corner from Somerville. 

Off he went to ride 120km.

10:27 Henry texts: "Finished. Safe".

I respond: "Already?"

Phoebe and I decided she'd go home. We will catch up later. 

I drove in.  The roads are open.  I feel the council have done a good job. Esp since they did not keep them closed after the event. I collected Henry in the cul-de-sac near the wheel of Brisbane. 

Palm Sunday

SUNDAY

In the Christian calendar, today is Palm Sunday. It's remembering what's referred to as Jesus's triumphant entry into Jerusalem. Apparently, at the time, the Jews were looking for a military strong man to rise up and push the Romans out. They were expecting a big man on a horse. By contrast, Jesus borrowed a donkey, a poor man's creature, symbolising suffering, service, humility and not a military animal. 

Kind of contrasts with a recent entry by ISRAEL into Gaza.

In a way,  Jesus entry was one of many symbolic events calling us to a way of life and focused millions over two thousand years.

St Mary's Church 2

Lovely service at St Mary's Kangaroo pt.

Second time we've been. 

Beautiful architecture. 

Lovely people. 

Good service. 

This week the morning tea liturgy was outside.  

In regard to the architecture, 

I like the clear window to the left of the inside picture. A nice contrast to the stained-glass.

 Philosophically, the stained-glass glass windows reminding us of church history and the big picture that involves the world outside but paradoxically prevent us viewing that same outside.  That one big clear window works in well with such Philosophical musings.

Peter & Robyn Kirakov Wedding

Attended the wedding of good friend Peter Kirakov  and his now wife Robyn.  I had the honour,  along with another old friend, Ashley Miller as the ring bearers.

So nice to see such love and commitment. A light friendly service with lots of fun injected by Peter.

Ashley and I were chatting about the really good memories we have of youth group way back in the early '80s

Park run

Rocks Riverside parkrun results for event #559. Your time was 00:43:50.

I was being very careful testing out my right ankle.  It was walk run walk run.  A fair bit of walking. 

Congratulations on completing your 43rd parkrun and your 32nd at Rocks Riverside parkrun today. You finished in 474th place out of a field of 564 parkrunners. You were the 267th male and came 13th in your age category VM60-64. Take a look at this week's full set of results on our website. Your PB at Rocks Riverside parkrun remains 00:36:07. Your best time this year remains 00:41:14.

Electricity Bill

 Recently received my electricity bill  $701.67

I wonder whether what rate I am paying 

Item Description Units Price Amount
General Usage 1565.460 kWh $0.336160 $526.25
Controlled Load 2 Usage 236.829 kWh $0.206910 $49.00
Daily Supply 90 days $1.366530 $122.99
Daily Supply - Controlled 90 days $0.038060 $3.43

		Origin	Qantas RED
General Usage	c/kWH	33.6160	30.448
Daily Supply	c/day	136.6530	118.8
Controlled Load 2	c/kWH	20.6910	20.79
Daily Supply - Controlled	c/day	03.8060	0 I think

RED ENERGY

https://www.energymadeeasy.gov.au/plan?id=RED552334MRE&postcode=4075

10000 Qantas points when pay first electricity bill.  + 2 points per $

 

 

Botanic Gardens

 Adelaide Botanical Gardens. 

Seemed contradictory that we were drawn to look at glass art. And stayed to enjoy trees and flowers. 

Church St Peters Anglican

 

Went to the 8am service at the Anglican cathedral in Adelaide. The sermon was on the story of the prodigal son (google it).  

The short version is a father has 2 sons and the younger one convinces dad to give him his inheritance and he moves to another country and loses it all through dodgy living and ends up working as a badly treated farm hand and decides he'd be better off working as a farm hand for his dad who apparently treats his farm hands well. So he returns home. Dad's super excited and throws a party. Older son gets angry. Feels resentment that he's stayed home and worked the farm with no recgnition or thanks.

One message one can take from this is that it's the older son who's actually lost. We, men, can see what we know and that's we don't pick the subtleties in human feeling. So we as dads can use the learning as a prompt to ask ourselves so we know how our kids are travelling?

Kids or people who are slaving away out of loyalty should recognise that what was once altruism can turn and eat away at our soul.

The key being communication. Making sure the atmosphere is conducive. That you listen and speak as appropriate. 

David Coles 60 Birthday

 The key motivation to come to Adelaide was cousin David's 60th birthday party.

It was held at the South Australian Aviation Museum. 

The best bit was catching up with many cousins who I'd not seen for many years. 

Metropolitan Hotel

 We are staying at the Metropolitan.  This is somewhat old world with shared facilities and live music.  

Friday and Saturday night live music started with removing the windows.  The stage is in the background.

Adelaide 2 Fri - Glenelg

Breakfast at Adelaide Markets 

Bus to Glenelg 

Street walk. 

Post cards

Coffee

Swim

Cocktail at Mosley Beach bar. 

Fish and chips on grass 

Wedding dress and

First nation's v white man

(Strange tour guide)

Ice cream

Tram home

Snooze

Pub dinner

Band

Breakfast at the Adelaide Markets which are right across the road. It's indoor with lots of fruit stalls and bakeries. We've found a vegan place that does lovely coffee and for breakfast we added a bowl of salad. 

 

Breakfast at the Adelaide Markets which are right across the road. It's indoor with lots of fruit stalls and bakeries. We've found a vegan place that does lovely coffee and for breakfast we added a bowl of salad

Slept off breakfast and then took a bus to Glenelg. More coffee. 

Wrote a post card to Tim and Ro. Next stop is the beach. 

Went in search of toilets and change rooms.  Luckily found a tour guide who pointed us in the right direction.

Beach side cafe with deck chairs and beds and a bar.  Had a swim and then ordered a cocktail.  Lay about reading for a bit.

Day 1 Museums & Galleries

 Took a bus to North Terrace and started walking

 

Saw a couple of ladies cleaning a statue.

Just need to find a concrete plinth and lop off her head.

Inside the war memorial

Outside the war memorial

Street beside the war memorial

History of radio museum.

My kind of radio.  Complete with spirits.  

Love the valves.  Another era when the mechanism was a part of the art.  

Engineers!

That too much art gallery rest and rejuvenate.