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Sally Gillespie's avatar

Hi Lucinda, lovely post. I too live in suburbs close to CBD. Looking at skies, birds and big trees are my restorative for teh beginning of each day. Great remedy for when everything looks to small and static ! The thought of Quarterly planning for my life makes me weak at the knees , but then I don’t have kids to organise! So great you are taking them our bush , best sort of adventure for growing humans!

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Lucinda Bain's avatar

Yes I think perhaps I am giddy with the thought of managing three young people's routines when term goes back. I find this chapter of life is filled with many an aimless half hour between dropping one and picking up another, and I can feel unfocussed or like I am wasting time (when I have the pressure of plenty of my own commitments to attend to also). I often don't know what the 'next right thing' is but I do know that heading out into the bush seems to be the answer to most of my questions, and love sharing that with my growing daughters. Thanks for taking the time to comment Sally!

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Sally Gillespie's avatar

Yes I can only imagine the amount of picking up and dropping off you are doing! Doing this in a small way for my niece I would always head off for a walk in those half hours. Cars can be very claustrophobic!

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Elizabeth Cameron's avatar

Ohh how beautiful those walks and time in nature look! A trip to Gariwerd on our list xx

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Lucinda Bain's avatar

I think of you every time we go, the boys would love it.

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