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Well it's a beautiful day! Gloriously warm and sunny and the sky is clear. It feels busier -more cars appearing and roaring up and down our streets.
We moved just before the lockdown. We were in our glorious family home for 25 happy years - but it was time for a change. So we just made it! In the nick of time! Now we are in the middle of a still bustling Potts Point with new faces and new walks - and with each other constantly! From large house to apartment living - an adjustment at the best of times - but eerily different in these circumstances. But we are happy.
Covid-19 and the need to be locked down has been both liberating and confronting. Liberating because we have permission to just 'be' - not having to physically be somewhere else - and permission to go under the radar and be anonymous.
On the other side of the coin however, is the very fact of being with oneself - and challenging dark thoughts I can otherwise physically escape from. It can be like sitting in the middle of a mess - just sitting with and amongst it. And some days are better than others.
But aren't we blessed! A close-knit family making change and living in the safest of surroundings when we compare ourselves with other parts of the world. Truly an island. Perhaps that's what lockdown feels like - a lot of individual islands.
Today, Saturday is great. Our beautiful daughters and baby granddaughter are visiting - and it is absolute joy! I had no idea being a grandmother could extend my excitement and love as much as it does! And feel like a child again myself - a naughty one!
More to come.
Enough for today.
Bronny Carroll
We moved just before the lockdown. We were in our glorious family home for 25 happy years - but it was time for a change. So we just made it! In the nick of time! Now we are in the middle of a still bustling Potts Point with new faces and new walks - and with each other constantly! From large house to apartment living - an adjustment at the best of times - but eerily different in these circumstances. But we are happy.
Covid-19 and the need to be locked down has been both liberating and confronting. Liberating because we have permission to just 'be' - not having to physically be somewhere else - and permission to go under the radar and be anonymous.
On the other side of the coin however, is the very fact of being with oneself - and challenging dark thoughts I can otherwise physically escape from. It can be like sitting in the middle of a mess - just sitting with and amongst it. And some days are better than others.
But aren't we blessed! A close-knit family making change and living in the safest of surroundings when we compare ourselves with other parts of the world. Truly an island. Perhaps that's what lockdown feels like - a lot of individual islands.
Today, Saturday is great. Our beautiful daughters and baby granddaughter are visiting - and it is absolute joy! I had no idea being a grandmother could extend my excitement and love as much as it does! And feel like a child again myself - a naughty one!
More to come.
Enough for today.
Bronny Carroll