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    The earth is sick and in need of salvage

    By Anne Skyvington|Published On: August 21, 2017|Categories: Ecology, Writing Topics|2 Comments on The earth is sick and in need of salvage|

    Sick Earth The earth is sick, its lungs stuffed and out of puff, its bones brittle near to break cancer cells spreading throughout its crests amid tumescent landfill dense as [...]

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    Tell me who your mentors are and I’ll tell you who you are

    By Anne Skyvington|Published On: August 8, 2017|Categories: Books & Movies, Writing Topics|2 Comments on Tell me who your mentors are and I’ll tell you who you are|

    Most people can only claim to have known one truly great love in their life. In the same way, it is likely that you will remember having had no more [...]

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  • Walking the Tightrope – Caring for Someone with Depression or Bipolar Disorder

    By Anne Skyvington|Published On: April 22, 2017|Categories: Writing Topics|0 Comments on Walking the Tightrope – Caring for Someone with Depression or Bipolar Disorder|

    Did you know that one in five Australians will personally experience clinical depression or a bipolar disorder over their lifetime, there are the families, partners, friends and work colleagues who [...]

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    Temperature Records Broken in Australia this Weekend

    By Anne Skyvington|Published On: February 15, 2017|Categories: Ecology, Writing Topics|2 Comments on Temperature Records Broken in Australia this Weekend|

    We live near the beach at Coogee, so we are fortunate enough to get a fairly constant sea breeze.  But other areas in Western Sydney and in the Western plains [...]

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    Shadows and Synchronicities

    By Anne Skyvington|Published On: February 8, 2017|Categories: Psychology, Writing Topics|2 Comments on Shadows and Synchronicities|

    The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung  (1875-1961) created many of the enduring terms for the mind and for the unconscious that have enriched literature and humanity during the twentieth century. Certainly [...]

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  • A Well-Loved Pet

    By Anne Skyvington|Published On: December 7, 2016|Categories: Writing Memoir, Writing Topics|0 Comments on A Well-Loved Pet|

    Zac followed my partner along the footpath near our home, one afternoon when Mark was walking towards the gym. An Aussie Terrier, starving and weary. These gym sessions were daily [...]

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    Dear WordPress Bloggers

    By Anne Skyvington|Published On: November 7, 2016|Categories: Craft of Writing, Writing Topics|0 Comments on Dear WordPress Bloggers|

    We're coming into summer here Down Under, while you in the northern hemisphere head towards winter. I have decided, paradoxically, to go into blogging hibernation now, while the outdoors activities [...]

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    New horizons in personal and national goals

    By Anne Skyvington|Published On: November 7, 2016|Categories: Writing Topics|0 Comments on New horizons in personal and national goals|

    New Horizons Those past two weeks had seen me have 2 new artificial lenses put in my eyes:  that is, cataract surgery on both eyes; seek digital assistance with making [...]

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    Taking Risks in Outer and Inner Journeys

    By Anne Skyvington|Published On: November 7, 2016|Categories: Writing Topics|0 Comments on Taking Risks in Outer and Inner Journeys|

    I've always been a bit of a risk taker in some ways. [See My Travel Journal: "From Paris to Russia and Back in 1968"].  Different cultures and new landscapes, tasting [...]

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    Can You Learn to Have Courage and Compassion?

    By Anne Skyvington|Published On: October 31, 2016|Categories: Writing Topics|2 Comments on Can You Learn to Have Courage and Compassion?|

    Sensitivity or Mental Illness? In our family, I was the overly sensitive one. Recently, I was rated high in intuition, feeling and perception, in a Myers-Briggs personality test. Fate had [...]

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