As you may know I visited Chanty Lang-Vermaas a week ago. On the surface we were two women with very similiar interest and histories. We both had been involved in acting, both were business trainers, both had a love of life and passionate about making a difference. And we both very much love to laugh.

Coming away it was like I had sat down in my old favourite chair and breathed in joy. Philaeo type love they call it, the love of one for a friend or a familiar object.

What is so astounding to me is that until a week or two ago we didn’t even know each other existed. We were both out there “tweeting” away to our friends. Our tweet paths crossed and a conversation about roses spurred a desire to meet.

Who would have thought that out of that one visit we would have been able to share our joyful meeting with the world, organise for Women Can girls to go for a “Mama Mia” night up the hill with Chanty. It just shows me that there are always precious and valuable little pockets of friendship just waiting for us to find them.

Well here is a piece of music that I composed in memory of my visit to Chanty (@chantified on Twitter). Chantified

I met with Geoff Quinsee and Lee Hancock this morning to finish off their blog site with them.  It was so exciting to see two men with a vision that was coming to pass and I was part of that whole process. 

I have to say that I love what I do…

Geoff and Lee are off on a trek, end to end, of the Bibbulmun Track.  It’s a 1000km journey and by no means an easy trip.  They will be traveling from Perth’s foothills to Albany in the South.  When they arrived at my home, they had just come from a training session at Surge where they’d had a bit of a butt kick regarding their food and training regimes.  For Geoff it was exactly what he expected but for Lee it was a bit of a shock to the system.  It will be interesting to see how their adventure goes forward.  I’m really looking forward to seeing the footage on TV.

Here is the banner I designed for their website…

I’m going to post some updates on their progress from time to time because I think these guys are really inspirational.  You don’t have to be a bloke to have an adventure, but to take on Western Australia bushland is no mean feat.

All the best guys!

Saw this video and it made me cry. What a miracle of life and determination on the part of one so small. Also, you could almost tangibly feel the love of the parents pouring into this child.

For my New Year’s Eve, I arranged a progressive dinner for some of the girls from Women Can International Inc. The night turned out to be the best New Year’s Eve I’ve ever had. We started out by spending time with three beautiful labradors down on Yanchep beach. While they were fetching stick, we sat and had our gorgeous picnic and I snapped off heaps of photos.

Then we went to a friend’s house and had a lovely meal, sitting out the back in the candlelight and discussing philosophy. It was such a precious time.

Then we sped off to another friend’s house, determined to be in her spa with a glass of champagne and a slice of the most goregous cheese cake I’ve ever tasted. It was just a slice of heaven. This stint lasted three hours and eventually we decided we should shelve our discussions and make our way home.

It was then that we decided to upload the photos onto one of the girls computers to see what they looked like. Apart from capturing the most gorgeous beach shots, we were very surprised to see that on about 10 of the shots there were light orbs. These are simply unexplainable. We didn’t see them at the beach. It couldn’t have been something on the lens as they are not in the same position. There is even a motion blur on one of them, indicating to me it was something moving. The only explanation I can find for them is that they are spiritual beings.

Take a look and tell me what you think.

They were on the viewer in the camera and initially I thought perhaps they were a tennis ball we were throwing, but then I saw there were so many of them and in different places.

For example, the sun was setting so it’s not the sun on the horizon. There was a moon and a star above it but they were quite high up in the sky. There just simply is no other explanation for them.

I’d love it if someone else could come up with a plausible explanation, so please post your comments.

I guess this little mystery adds something special to what was a wonderfully, warm and thoroughly enjoyable evening with girlfriends.