It is not even golden hour in Sydney on the Sunday morning yet we are up packing a picnic to join a community event …
Today community at Old Erowal Bay at Jervis Bay gathers together to pour love and kindness on one of its neighbour who is battling with cancer and the community put together a concert in order to show it cares and to raise funds to help with renovations of the house.
It is going to be an afternoon with neighbours and friends listening to powerful and soulful jazz vocalist Kim Hair (née Hatton) and many other local musicians who are getting together on the spirit of community moment.
This week Michael Pascoe penned one of the most insightful essays about his lessons learned during his 50 years in journalism and some of his extracts go into the heart of community and its great network of kindness and good causes.
“Margaret Thatcher was totally wrong – there is ‘Society’ and it is magical in what it achieves and can achieve. It is Society, all of us, that makes everything possible, including the mega-rich who seem to think it’s all their own work.” (Allegedly, Michael was not having a go at my surname)
… ‘I was struck by a passage in Ian McEwan’s new novel, Lessons. An 11-year-old boy witnesses a serious traffic accident and its aftermath of blood and police and ambulances:
“He began to cry. He moved away so that his father wouldn’t see. Roland was sorry for the man and the woman but that wasn’t it. His tears were for joy, for a sudden warmth of understanding that did not yet have these terms of definition: how loving and good people were, how kind the world was that had ambulances in it that came quickly out of nowhere whenever there was sorrow and pain. Always there, an entire system, just below the surface of everyday life, watchfully waiting, ready with all its knowledge and skill to come and help, embedded within a greater network of kindness he had yet to discover. It seemed to him then, as the ambulances receded with their distant sirens sounding, that everything worked, and was decent and caring and just.”
Kim Hair: Diva and the Harp and friends Location: Jervis Bay, South Coast Nsw Country: Australia
There are so many reasons the grass is always greener and brighter on the South Coast - courtesy of Kathy Lette
- Punny Phillip
South Coast communities and fauna and flora are out of this world
One of my sceptic cousins in Europe is green with envy about some of the picturesque scenes coming from the south coast so he shared few links to snow resorts and my favourite pub in Prague ;-)
The overview of the ski resorts in The High Tatras
10 of the world’s most sustainable ski resorts
The secret to happiness is human connection, not economic growth
