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Category Archives: Our Cyclone Yasi Story Throughout the course of that horrid night when Cyclone Yasi crossed the coast and quickly transformed our beachfront palace into a tent, like all of our neighbours, we lost our belongings … a.k.a ‘Our stuff’. It’s okay though, although devastated by the sudden change in status, once we were used to the idea, the thought…  Well, to say leaving a place you love dearly isn’t difficult would be underplaying the roller coaster of emotions associated with removal trucks and send offs and long car trips and doggy transfer flights. We’d lived on the Cassowary Coast for just on six years, moving to the area with my posting as Principal of…  For some of us, day to day living is pretty normal. Then there are the ‘others’. The ones who not only work, sleep, eat and have family life but also make magic happen just because that is their passion, without wanting anything in return. Recently I have been touched by a few of…  My beautiful day, today … .. a sleep in till past six o’clock .. laughs with the boys at the breakfast table, admiring their funny morning conversations .. laughs at the eldest boy having a hissy fit over a lost toothbrush .. meeting beautiful people at the distribution centre, discovering new friends .. phone calls…  Their scope of toy collection was not extensive in the slightest. Play in our Tully Head’s home was simple. We tended to purchase collections and kept to the same type of play for the most part of each day. As long as there was some construction, some sport, some imagination and some role play,… |
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