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We left Merricks this morning to celebrate my mothers birthday at the Tea House in the city. It was good to get together and the food was excellent.
The rest of the day was low key. The twins have a sleep over tonight at friends and Siena and I went to the movies. Petra is not feeling great with the flu threatening to take hold and stayed home to rest.
Watched the end of the Eddie Mabo story on TV tonight which was worthwhile. Staying up to watch the French open final.
Clearly I am more sensitive to this but I have noticed a reasonable number of ads on the TV recently dealing with cancer. There is one where a father waits in the Drs waiting room saying to himself “please not cancer” and another of a young mother washing her baby in the bath wishing she could live long enough to see her child grow. This is on ovarian cancer. I was watching TV with the twins over the weekend when the first ad I described came on again. Alessia looked at me with a knowing look of compassion and fear. I told her mine was a better cancer, not lung cancer. She smiled. Not sure I convinced her. Hard.
Anyway, watching the Eddie Mabo movie tonight and he to passed away from cancer. It’s in our face a bit.
It is proving difficult to always deal with it on my terms.
Anyway, this week will see no. 5 come and go and there will only be one more to go. I have been starting to contemplate the what next, but that still appears a little uncertain at the moment so I will let that rest for a while longer.
My Unplanned Sabbatical 