YOU'VE GOT A FRIEND performed by the worldwide cast of BEAUTIFUL (in qua...

Love it! Too good not to pass on.  Uplifting quarantine music. 

ANZAC spirit is in all of us

Hi there

I'm passing on an extract from an article written by a friend, Eda Utka. To me, it epitomises the spirit of Australia, including our new residents from other lands.  Thanks Eda

LEST WE FORGET
Claire

"This Saturday is a special day here in Australia. It’s a day of remembrance for the men who sacrificed their lives to fight battles in faraway lands. One of those distant lands where Australians and New Zealanders fought was Turkey, my homeland.

This year, I baked ANZAC Biscuits. These biscuits are symbolic of a mother’s love and the innovative spirit of the ANZACs. The mothers of the ANZAC soldiers developed a recipe made from non-perishable ingredients to last the long journey to Turkey and this biscuit made of flour, rolled oats, coconut flakes, golden syrup and butter was born.

So this ANZAC spirit that we talk about, mateship, humour, ingenuity, courage and endurance, it is not only in the men who served overseas, but in the women who were left behind to raise their children to provide moral support, bake and ship off ANZAC biscuits as a symbol of their love. These days I see ANZAC spirit in people who leave behind their homes to come to Australia to study or start new lives here with their families.

I see it in people like Christabelle, who first offered me ANZAC biscuits despite being Indonesian. I see it in anyone who’s left all they know to start a new life after battling an illness, breakdown of a relationship, becoming a mother for the first time, decided to write a book, left a job that was comfortable for a new challenge. In short, we all embody the ANZAC spirit. It is the human spirit." Eda

You can read this article in full at https://www.writepublishgrow.com/lest-we-forget-that-anzac-spirit-is-in-all-of-us/

Mindfulness is a relaxing state of mind - Colouring- In techniques

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Leunig loves to paint with a broad base of primary colours.

BTW - mindfulness is simply BEING  in the moment without other distractions.
You may want to get out your coloured pencils or  pastels and colour in the above. 

Click on the link below for beautiful relaxing music - harp, flute, piano along with tranquil images.  Relax and enjoy. Clara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6R8uiaMtb0&list=RDV6R8uiaMtb0&index=1

8 hours of beautiful relaxing music (called "Dance of Life", ★91) composed by Peder B. Helland for sleep, meditation, studying and relaxing. "I am a composer from Norway and I started this channel with a simple vision: to create a place that you can visit in order to chill out and relax." Peder

Download this music (30 minutes long version) https://soothingrelaxation.bandcamp.c...

Listen to more relaxing music composed by Peder B. Helland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXYtJ...

Download my music ►https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/pe...

Vivaldi - a favourite for

Vivaldi - 'Quattro Stagioni'  Janine Janson - Internationaal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzE-kVadtNw&list=RDzzE-kVadtNw&start_radio=1

'From My Camp'  Arthur Streeton 1896

Great music for a walk around our foreshores or on a desert island.

Photo - Christopher Maait - 'From Curlew Camp' 2012

"I shout and laugh at my immense wealth, all free and without responsibility.  Who could steal this from me?  No-one"  Arthur Streeton

(The wonderful thing about these two images is that with about a century between them.) 

This foreshore walk has it all - spectacular views to the city, natural bushland, history: with places to linger and imagine how it was for the young men at the Artists' Camps.  

1890's Streeton and Roberts 'pulled through the lazy green water

and lunched in the shade and in the open air'

to join their fellow artists under canvas 

in camps set up by Hopkins and Ashton.

" 'til matrimony claimed their souls"

My walk took me here to the same spot this week.  

(More about these camps - P37 Through the Heads to Balmoral, Sydney and Mosman Meanders & foreshore flavours)

Isolation with Mozart

To get you in the mood for a beautiful walk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhLO3qnLWR0

Piano Concerto No. 21, Andante (Elvira Madigan)  ...  much loved Mozart piece

Sirius Cove, the closest harbour beach to home, is the beginning of a fabulous walk around the foreshores to Taronga Zoo.  A walk such as this inspired 'Mosman Meanders and foreshore flavours' and still does, with its rich history and natural beauty.  

Our foreshores beckon

Child and dog-friendly - the beginning of the foreshore walk to the zoo.

Babyboomers had the BEST music

Hi there

Friday night is a time to get together with friends but...

We've ordered our usual Friday night takeaway from Charcoal Charlies and are polishing up the music videos.  However, Utube offers a wealth of fantastic music - this is G's favourite ie 'Songbird' Christine McVie from Fleetwood Mac.  The added bonus is that you can click on related music if you feel like listening to more.

Cheers Clara

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLRyYETnoIE

www.fleetwoodmac.com/