Shelli van Santen

Writer

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50 firsts before 50

50 firsts before 50

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My latest adventure into the rainforest is up on YouTube. Link in my bio. Please like and subscribe to my channel on YouTube. I’m aiming for 1000 subs by my birthday. What a great birthday present! I’ll be doing 50 firsts before I turn 50! #adventurewomen #bushsurvival #rainforestwalk #overnightoats #overnighthikers (at Paluma Range National Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/COwgFU7pQJP/?igshid=11mm1jxrlj968

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A little disturbance at the Guesthouse

She lives in a guesthouse near the hill. Her days are spent walking, writing, reading and preparing food. Sometimes she walks the beach, others the hill, mostly just down the strand and back. Today is the sailing carnival. She has never been sailing but she will go down to watch. She packs her day bag. A book, her glasses, writers notebook, lovely pen, a tin of mints, water bottle and keep cup, a…

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Competition vs Collaboration

Today I drove for four hours and got thinking about competition and how it just doesn’t make sense to me. I get the concept of survival of the fittest BUT it seems that competition is a part (the cause?) of all that is wrong in the world.

I’ve never understood the need to compete in sports. Two teams “battling” it out to “win” and there’s always a loser. “Beating” each other. It sounds a…

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Walden, Thoreau and Wordsworth - ecocriticism

Walden, Thoreau and Wordsworth – ecocriticism

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Walden, Thoreau and Wordsworth – ecocriticism

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Coronavirus Covid19 Data Australia

This is data I have compiled from the State government media releases from 100 Cases onwards.

Sunday 22 March 2020

Totals 1068 up 285 to 1353

Deaths 7 (6 in NSW)

NSW 436 up 97 to 533

VIC 229 up 67 to 296

QLD 221 up 38 to 259

WA 90 up 30 to 120

SA 67 up 33 to 100

TAS 12 up 10 to 22

ACT 9 up 10 to 19

NT 4

Saturday 21 March 2020

Totals 876 up 192 to 1068

Deaths 7 (6 in NSW)

NSW 382 up 54 to…

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Lightning "Mum, can we canter?" Rosa had never cantered before. The pony she rode was called Lightning, he was quick and tall.

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This is me

who I am

strong because I’m

scarred

beautiful, broken and discarded

insecure, yet powerful

weak and soft and sensitive

lost and alone

in a crowd

loved

saved and undone by you

brave

real

afraid

alone

I am me

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WaterHorse The horse surged through the water. Each powerful stride lifting it's chest high before sinking back down until a hoof found purchase in the soft sand, launching it forward and upwards once again.

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Human

Are we human or are we dancers? Black and white questions like this limit our ability to se the truth that we are both human and dancers. We crave connection with others and the freedom to be ourselves. So although this song does bring up an interesting perspective, in fact it’s based on flawed, black and white thinking. Nobody truly wants to “cut the cord” and lose that connection. We just want…

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Tinder Swipe left, swipe left, swipe left... they were all alike. Nobody caught her eye. When they did, she realised it was because they reminded her of him.

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Romeo His dark hair fell over one eye and he kept flicking it back as he spoke to her, she noticed his right eye was greenish with hazel tinges and the left was brown.

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Regret The music belted out across the emerald green of the oval. Teenage bodied bounced and crashed into each other, white shoes with blue stripes at the bottom of stonewash blue jeans, hightop sneakers, shaggy haircuts and fluero Ra-Ra skirts, purple and pink makeup and colourful mascara.

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Madness What madness is this that we have exchanged living for earning a living, that we eat so much and so easily that we now must pay another to provide us with a machine which is powered by energy which took a million years to capture and make and we run like hamsters on a treadmill but do not capture the energy generated by our efforts.

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Mercury She stood up, her feet pressing into the fine layer of sand, smooth, round edged pebbles against her toes.