Inspired by a rant from Woog (which you can read here) I need to get a few things off my chest (both good and bad) . I need to do it so urgently I don’t even have time for an introduction. So here goes:
The BAD
Hunting
Seriously! WTF is it with people who hunt lions for sport? Melissa Bachman is an American television presenter who posted an image on Facebook and Twitter of herh olding a rifle and smiling beside the corpse of the most magnificent male lion. ”Incredible day in South Africa, Stalked inside 60 yards on this beautiful male lion – what a hunt!” she said.
It’s not a hunt when you stalk an animal with a gun. It’s just barbaric murder. I hate her. I hate everything she stands for and I hope she never sleeps a full night again. Sorry, I know that is a hideous and terrible thing to say but I really can’t help feeling it. I am not displaying the picture here because it makes me sick to the stomach. Her – not the lion.
The Australian Government
I am horrified by the Australian government right now. Embarrassed to be Australian and so extremely sad to be governed by a country that has no compassion, no heart and seemingly no clue. Scott Morrison’s treatment of asylum seekers is showing Australia his heart is made of a lump of black coal. I wrote about it earlier in the week (you can read that here).
Today when I read that Tony Abbott was supplying naval ships to the Sri Lankans I thought it was a hideous untruth. But no, it’s not.
He sickens me. Think people, for one minute of what the asylum seekers are fleeing.
Pain in the neck
On the far more trivial and self indulgent side, my neck is so sore from being tense about the world that I can hardly move. There will be no tennis match watching in my immediate future.
My hair
I tried to get balyage. It’s safe to assume it failed because when my friend Fi saw me she mentioned that it might look like the kind of hair colour you go to the hairdresser to change. I did preempt the conversation with a tirade of how much I hated my hair. (Fi is very lovely). I spent more hours at the hairdresser than you want to know about.
Kale
I tried to make kale tonight in the hope that I would discover the secret to longevity, health and eternal skin clarity. I also fantasised that my son would love it and beg to take it to school in his lunch box. The truth is kale, even in the form of kale chips, smells and tastes like kale.
The GOOD
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Books
On Saturday morning I went out for breakfast with my husband and son and we found a bookshop. A real bookshop that sells book. It’s rare to find a book shop these days and I was happier than you could imagine to find such a beautiful one. Sadly I have forgotten what it was called even though we may have paid their rent for this month with the purchases we made.
Guest posting
I guest posted on Five Frogs Blog. Check it out here. What a lovely blogging community she has there! You should join it.
Meditation
I have started doing a meditation course and while I am no Buddha (reference all the hate I was displaying before) I am starting to be a lot more accepting. I am also ready to give up the disgusting habit of hate reading that I have. No more reading things that fill me with negative emotion. I mean I guess I still have to read the newspapers but I am not going to read sites that make me feel less than “clean”.
This article on asylum seekers
I hope everyone in Australia reads this article on the journey that asylum seekers make to get to Australia. It was published in the New York Times and is compulsory reading.
My friend
My friend Kerri Sackville’s brilliant post on Ariel Levy’s AMAZING post on late term miscarriage was on the front page of the digital copy of The Age. I was genuinely thrilled, as if she was my own child. Read both the links.
My bed
I bloody love my bed. If this post become a weekly habit I will include my bed every week.
Muay Thai
My son attended a Muay Thai seminar at his very brilliant Tae Kwondo academy. As well as learning amazing moves and exercising his butt off, he came home filled with the wisdom that the sensei that taught him. He was also one of a very few kids there – him training in a class of adults makes me both proud and petrified.
So, over to you. How was your week?
Your pride in me made me so happy I can’t tell you. Truly. SO happy.
And in unrelated news, zucchini chips are the only way to go. I have made them several times (once even without burning them!) and if you get them right they are delicious.
But seriously. If you have to take cooking advice from me then you may as well shut down your kitchen right now.
LOVE YOU x
Zucchini chips? How about we stick to potato? x
Kale chips are vile. VILE! We will never be hipsters x
Yay! Music to my ears
Why? Why did I not know about Kerri’s article on The Age? I too would be bursting with pride (off to find it now). Why? Why would someone shoot a lion? Why would someone shoot any animal in their own habitat? Why? Why would anyone eat Kale????? xxxxx
Love! xxx
Here’s Kerri’s article. http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/pregnancy/pregnancy-health/why-ariel-levys-miscarriage-story-is-boundary-breaking-20131113-2xh61.html xx
I am so on board with everything (including my bed), I too am embarrassed to be Australian. My anger had also arisen from interactions with Govt Depts and their policies or lack thereof and well, the Human Rights breaches are never ending, worldwide. As for kale, I believe the only ways to consume it are either covered in chocolate (as with most food, including chocolate) or juiced with many other nice tasting things. Keep ranting.
I like the way you think Sandra xx
I just can’t bring myself to eat Kale chips. They are green, chips are not supposed to be green people!
Also when did kids books get so damn expensive! I am doing the book advent calendar that has been making its way around Pinterest and I spent over $100 on the books. None of them were by well known authors too.
My Facebook feed at the moment makes me want to make house calls and stab them in the eye. So much ignorance. I even had one woman say that Latifa needed to suck it up and deal with not being able to visit her baby.
I also realised today that I haven’t taken my meds for a couple of days…so that explains my homicidal rage…which was nipped in the bud by a nap and a childfree night.
Here’s to next week being awesome!
Get back on those meds Tegan! Most important thing in the world is to look after yourself.
Loved your comment – hope your next week is also awesome! x
What a post…it sent me rushing to links everywhere. I can’t look at those photos of triumphant hunters gloating over their wretched ‘kills’…are they even human these people?? I feel they must be some aberrant species (the hunters, not their victims).
The posts on late-term miscarriages were outstanding.I know this because I experienced one at 31 weeks. Kerri’s and Ariel’s perfectly capture the bittersweetness, the taboos, the pain.
Congrats on the budding Tai Kwondo aficiando 🙂 And hair, the older you get the more grief it produces!
PS. Kale scares me.
Wow Lee-Anne, a loss at 31 weeks would have changed you forever. I had 9 miscarriages before having my precious son and I too loved the words that both Ariel and Kerri chose xx
PS. You are right to be scared by kale
Saw the photo of the lion and its killer – absolutely the most disgusting thing I have ever witnessed in my life. I just went to South Africa in May and visited two safari parks. The most beautiful thing was seeing the lions and all the other animals there. Admittedly what the lioness had just killed and was eating in front of us isn’t worth repeating (although it does quash the rumour that a lion won’t eat another lion), just seeing them up close was incredible.
Kale – just don’t go there! Although sweet potato chips are a great way to eat more vegies. I just spray some oil on them and cook them in a very hot oven.
Read Kerri’s post on the miscarriage – beautiful.
As for what’s good this weekend for me…had a great afternoon practising on my ukulele with a like-minded group of friends. If you’re in Sydney on 1 December – we’re performing at Shir Madness at Bondi Beach. Come and say hi!!! And after the music, finished the evening my working on a quilt. Does life get any better?
Potato for chips. Everything else is just ….. manky.
With for all the bad. Loved all the good. xxx
OMG…Little pencil is standing right next to Benny “the Jet”. He’s quite a star in the martial arts world. He is John Cusack’s teacher (he also appeared in John’s movie “Gross Point Blank”) and has quite the record and reputation. I know I’ve already bored most readers of this blog, but just in case little pencil doesn’t know (I DOUBT it), here’s some more info.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Urquidez
I don’t think I’ve every really wanted something VERY BAD to happen to anyone in my life, but that ghastly woman who KILLED A LION is No. 1 on my list. That beautiful lion! Perhaps I’ve got it upside down. I should care so much more about the plight of the asylum seekers (my naive solution – let them all in, but they must go and help repopulate the dying country towns, not into ghettos in the cities – think Woolgooga – a fabulous example of an energetic Indian community!) A number of families from the same culture would re-energise the school, the doctor, the grocery shop etc. etc. And they would not be cut off from their own culture and traditions as there could be a dozen or so families there together. Couldn’t finish the miscarriage article, was crying too much to read.
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