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Saturday, January 14, 2012

maybe it's just about space...... in time!

maybe it's the time that I spend thinking alone, or maybe it's just my observation, but I tend to think that my mind is much more active in the thinking about life quest that it ever has been.

I tend to have more discussions with people now about my life, the choices I have made and what it means to be me....

so I have had a thought:
"life is not measured by achievements or even how people are treated, it is measured by how well you run the race, how well you stay living to your moral judgement and most of all, what leagacy you decide to leave behind to the next generation about what is important and how to live your life to the best you can, even if it means standing alone in the face of popularity." Sometimes it's the only way to stand.....

Friday, January 13, 2012

Happy Birthday to the toughest but most inspirational guy I know.... DAD!


In life, there is always people who inspire you, teach you lessons and most of all demonstrate to you what it means to battle life with all your might. Dad has taught me many lessons throughout my life and as you can see from the pictures, it really has been a crazy but amazing life so far. From humble begginnings to a champion boxer, to a football umpire, husband, father, uncle, grandfather, mr fix it man, painter, artist, musician and most of all advice giver (even when I didn't want it). So lessons learnt are important... living wisely is important to. So what advice did he have for a son.




1. Never ever give up on the important things in life.
2. Always strive to do the best you can in all that you set your mind too.
3. Don't be bullied into doing what others do, but stand by principles.
4. Always know how things go back together if you are going to pull them apart (I learnt the hard way with the mower as a teenager).
5. Treat others with more respect than you plan on getting back.
6. Always believe in yourself and the abilities that God has given you.
7. Smile at the moments in life that are special.
8. Art can soothe the soul.
9. Even in illness, when others count you out; prove to the world that it's not good enough to sit and suffer. You have to fight to be fit, to be healthy and to be strong.
10. Life will end one day, but it's about what you leave behind as a legacy that is in the end the most important.






Dad is not perfect, he is not always right, he is not always strong. Dad however shows me everyday that life without the journey that we walk together would be incomplete and not as special if we didn't take the time out to sit and share a laugh. The years have softened all of our family and especially the males in the househould. Two of us in total (5 females) have had to stick it out sometimes but I know that Dad will power on and try his hardest to make the best of his life!

Happy 71st Birthday Dad! My hero, my inspiration and one of the toughest guys I know in the World!!