Author: Jane

Remembering Jane – Thoughts on 9/11

Remembering Jane – Thoughts on 9/11

Posted by | Sep 11, 2015 | |

Remembering Jane – Thoughts on 9/11 Please read how I came to know about Jane….. Remembering the remembering in 2014 a dear friend who now lives in NYC visited the 9/11 memorial and took these photographs for me, mid summer 2015 Jane S Beatty did not die alone. As you see she her name is amongst many many others. There isn’t much to say. I have said it all before. Every year, as I crawl through a Southern Hemisphere winter, I begin to think of Jane. Her Legacy book is...

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Pearls in all seasons

Pearls in all seasons

Posted by | May 25, 2015 | , |

a list is being made…the interviews are taking place and when winter arrives* the relaunch will begin. I really like the television program Grand Designs. I also enjoy Grand Designs revisited, where the very erudite Kevin returns to see how things have worked out. This is most interesting to see the home, now well established and to hear how the occupants have settled in. How is the reality compared to the dream? I blame my father for this fascination. He was an architect. Mainly of hospitals, however in my young childhood he was a mad keen DIY man. (well...

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Summer storms and revitalization

Summer storms and revitalization

Posted by | Dec 18, 2014 | , |

This December has bought a combination of summer storms and revitalization. Sliding, as we are,  rapidly into the Christmas season, winding up school and business, looking forward to summer, down here, or to winter up there, I find myself already thinking about next year. This was my goal and theme for 2014. Ha! I am currently looking back in order to plan forward and to make a new theme for 2015, which must, be better than this year. Actually I started dreaming forward and then recalled I needed to look back….thus I am in the midst of  summer storms...

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Remembering the remembering: 9/11

Remembering the remembering: 9/11

Posted by | Sep 11, 2014 | , , , |

No longer weighed down with heavy grief I find I do not want to forget. Thus today I am remembering the remembering. I always think of Jane S Beatty as we come into September. I watch the documentaries about what we now call 9/11. I remember it, on each anniversary. Yet the events seem kind of distant now. I don’t want them to be. During one doco I watched an interview with a woman named Edie, she is the sister of the man who heads up ‘Cantor Fitzgerald‘ This is  the financial services business based on the 101 –...

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The Final Act: caring for my mother.

The Final Act: caring for my mother.

Posted by | May 11, 2014 | , , , , |

I’d flown in for her second last Christmas. Mum had told her friends she wanted Christmas Day just with me and they had helped her arrange things so it could be that way. I was deeply moved. I arrived prepared for a long hot day but the weather played its tricks and it was to be a cold gusty wet day. Regardless, it was a special day.I flew home a few days later, before New Year’s Eve.A month later on a strong prompting I flew back.That was to be the end. The Final Act: caring for my mother.Let me tell...

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