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October 23, 2018

Lost children

October 23, 2018/ Mary-Rose MacColl
Lost children

Last Monday was International Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day and many people, including me, lit a flame to mark a loss. It was also the day nearly 6000 Australian doctors sent a letter to the Australian Prime Minister expressing grave concern about children held in detention by Australia on Nauru.

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October 12, 2018

Mount Coot-tha unzipped

October 12, 2018/ Mary-Rose MacColl
Mount Coot-tha unzipped

In my city of Brisbane, there’s a hill we call Mount Coot-tha about ten minutes from the CBD. You can walk up to the summit, down the other side and back up and down in around an hour and a half. For those ninety minutes, you bathe in a eucalypt forest.

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October 12, 2018/ Mary-Rose MacColl/
mountain, Mount Coot-tha, zipline, Brisbane
May 28, 2018

Ordinary people

May 28, 2018/ Mary-Rose MacColl
Ordinary people

I watched Ordinary People on the weekend, the film directed by Robert Redford and released in 1980, based on Judith Guest’s wonderful novel. The film tells a story about two different ways of approaching the pain life brings to all of us.

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Ordinary People, Robert Redford, film, tears, crying
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