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No adulting here.
Just sea flap flapping by to bat rays your spirits!
My Monday morning vibe. The faster I get this shit done, the faster I can play in my Glass Studio.
Questions that might be worth pondering…..…
What are your birth expectations……your dreams….your birth choices?
If they are out of reach how can they be achieved?
I have taken our eldest daughter Beth’s illustration from the book So That’s Where I Came From, to scribe my dream for all, sadly after all these years it is still a dream rather than a reality.
I returned from the conference with a broken arm, all is now repaired but as ever I am reminded of how wonderful yet unpredictable life and birth can be.
I do however hope your births are as celebratory as this and life is full and rich.
========================================================= I would appreciate any comments or corrections you may have regarding this Sydney centred view of our Homebirth History.
30th National Homebirth Conference Closing Ceremony Melbourne 2015
Homebirth in Retrospect
Almost 22 years ago my daughter came into the world. Intentionally and, I must say, with an attitude of self-direction and sovereignty, I chose homebirth.
I chose homebirth not just for the end game, the “birthing experience.”
I chose it because I considered it my biological birthright to decide where and how I would bring that baby into this world. I chose homebirth because I trusted in the collective biology of women as gestators, incubators and birthers of the next generation. I chose to have a homebirth because of the women and couples I’d read about in Sheila Kitzinger’s books.
I wanted that experience and in order to have it, I needed to be outside of the march of physicians in hospitals and in commune with a person who understood pregnancy and childbirth and supported the myriad reasons a woman would chose this path.
Trudie De Keijzer was that person.
At the time, she practiced in and around Sydney, Australia. Her office was in her home, a place I found eclectic and inviting. A bit older than me, her demeanor was calm, a stark contrast to my usual energy and ebullience - and much needed. For all my bravado, I was at the beginning of the most important journey of my life and was not wont to go it alone. I had my fears and I needed skilled strength.
I liked Trudie immediately.
There is much to say. Indeed, many women hold dear the narrative of her children’s birth(s). For me it is the first chapter of one of the greatest stories of my life. But recounting the hours and hour of Hannah’s birth is not necessary here. Certainly it would be on-topic but then the over-arching message of “why” would get lost in the details.
And it is the answers to the question, “why homebirth,” that are important. That a person even wonders, “why,” speaks volumes about the misinformation surrounding pregnancy and birth and the lack of choice or lack of awareness of choice we have in determining the path of a monumental beginning in our lives.
And so, in retrospect, the over-arching narrative of Hannah’s Birth is of a woman who made a conscious decision, with knowledge and feeling, to bring into this world, as far as possible on her own terms, a baby, at home, with the help of a skilled, caring midwife so that the beginning of the most important story was not lost or stolen and authored mindfully.
The shop at my website is open again:
http://www.tomgauld.com/index.php?/shop/how-to-order/
Amongst other things, I have have the print shown above and copies of Endless Journey.
No, I’m not getting rid of my books. In fact, I’m going to buy more.
That realization that in fact, you are not as flexible as you’d like to believe.
Always tired vs always sleeping
Always tired:Leo, Gemini, Capricorn, Scorpio, Pisces, Taurus, Virgo
Always sleeping: Libra, Aries, cancer, Leo, Sagittarius, Aquarius,
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
Bertrand Russell (via quotemadness)
My parents are funeral directors
I pretty much grew up in a funeral home and I have so many stories.
Here are a few of them:
One time we had hired a new funeral director, and we ran out of holy water so he ran up to my dad so panicked and asked how we could order some before the funeral that afternoon. My dad told him to “Boil the hell out of it”. We thought he would laugh but he spent the next hour boiling water on the stove.
One time my dad was driving the hearse to a funeral and the council hadn’t dug the plot, like they full on forgot to dig a hole for a funeral. He rang up my mum crying because it was so stressful and mum honestly though him shouting “I lost the plot” was a joke.
My brother and I use to play hide and seek at a graveyard and we almost fell in open plots a few time. We would steal peoples flowers until mum told us the importance of flowers. After that I would pick flowers from the bushes and give them to every grave without them because I felt so bad for them.
When we would go driving we would always keep an eye out for parks with roses so we could come back later and “borrow” the rose petals so we didn’t have to pay for them.
Mum has heard “you raise me up” and “Amazing grace” so many times shes told us if we play them at her funeral she will straight up haunt us. Discussions about what we wanted at our funerals have been a normal part of our lives since we were tiny. Every year each one of us would give mum and dad a detailed description of our funeral, kind of like a morbid letter to Santa. So many people died from car accidents and mum and dad discussed funerals all the time I became so phobic of driving I would have a panic attack when ever I got in the front seat. When I was about 10 I would steal all the fake crosses for coffins and give them to people at school. When I was 14 I really wanted to be a mortician so mum said I was allowed to come in and help prep a body for a funeral. I went in all gloved up and pulled back the sheet on the body and it was the ACTUAL mortician and he sat up and screamed at me. I died a little inside that day. In the back room there was a fridge for the workers and it mostly had coke but once it had a can of beer and I sculled it before I knew what it was….I was 11. Once my brothers and I hid in the coffin display room to scare my parents but they knew about it and shut the lids. Assholes. When I was 13 i was obsessed with phantom of the opera so I would play music on the organ in the viewing room in the dark, thought I was so edgy. We have one of the only horse drawn hearses in the country so we were asked to bring it down for a historical reenactment in the oldest cemetery in the town. I got to wizz around an old cemetery on a horse drawn hearse with a top hat on. I made so many goths jealous. Was a good day. I am so terrified of the idea of ghosts (I don’t believe in them) even though I grew up at a funeral home. Once this person who thought ghosts were real asked my parents if they had had ghostly experiences and they laughed in her face. She was so offended that people who had spent most of there life around dead people didn’t have any proof ghosts were real.
“Mum has heard “you raise me up” and “Amazing grace” so many times shes told us if we play them at her funeral she will straight up haunt us.”
how to be a winner
This is so important
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Home girl boutta schmooze her way through college
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That discussion board one actually works. Got an A in that portion of my Senior Sem doing that. This is gold.
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This is her calling. You can DEFINITELY use the same hacks at your job with a few tweaks here & there!
Literally this is how I’ve survived 3.75 years of college. This is gold. This is truth.
Passing college like a Slytherin………I love it
And to think she will come out of college $35,000 in debt. Way to go #UnderAchiever
I’d like to thank my friend Avistew Teague for translating this!
So important.
Fulfilling a dream, Kyjuan and Alex take #flight #skymax #introductoryflight #flyaplane #learntofly #fortlauderdale #pompano #thingstodo (at Skymax)
Will you #marryme? #lbts #lauderdalebythesea #florida afternoon #beach #proposal #scenicflight #shesaidyes #skymax (at Skymax Airplane Rides) http://www.skymax.com
A shot of Old Caples from the beachfront!
Sarasota is... breathtakingly beautiful.
Cat Owners Will Understand (24 Pics)
A #beechcraft premier kissed by the setting South #Florida sun after another stellar #loveFL day in #fortlauderdale. (at Sano Jet Center)
A Westwind in the foreground of another beautiful #florida #sunset. I #loveFL (at Skymax)
These are like the polar opposite of the infomercial gifs
All good but #catsrule