All those years when we could have been singing.All those years if they didn’t go away.All those times when we could have been laughing.All those days when the children would have played. Time stood still while lives were disappearing.City streets silent when the people stayed inside.All those years when we could have been living.Swallowed by…
Tag: Pandemic
Singing from the Same Hymn Sheet
“Don’t just believe everything you read girls, question everything.” She emphasised that word: ‘EVERYTHING’. The class was quiet. And I’ve since questioned why her words stayed with me. Ms T. was my English teacher in my senior VCE high school years. She was Greek-Australian with frizzy long hair, a zest for life, a hearty laugh,…
What Matters Most
Lent 2021 is almost upon us. This time last year life was, for all intents and purposes, kicking along in this new decade. Sure, there may have been rumours about some sort of virus in China spreading but many people – here in the southern hemisphere at least – were only hearing tiny rumblings and…
Wounded in a Dark Wood
Did you know that 2020 marks the seven hundredth anniversary of the completion of Dante’s Divine Comedy? How apt. This post was not going to be about that, but I stumbled across this fact as I was searching for a metaphor about being ‘wounded’. Lost in a dark wood? Bingo. Little did I know in…
Isolated, But Not Alone
Dear MuSingers, I didn’t want to write a post like this. I never believed that I would. Not in a million years. I wanted to be telling you about how good my study life had started to feel, how my mind had been expanding and my brain cells jumping as I learnt new things about…
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