Memory joggers

Pictorial representation of the year coming to an end.

Frankston Beach, late autumn 2005.

Petronas Twin Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 2005.

Fruit picking on the Mornington Peninsula, January 2005.

Therese. Red Toyota Corolla, sedan.

Ingrid. Laptop

It's been a year of acclimitisation, a year of trying to understand how I fit in this place I've found myself in. A process that is, still, uncompleted.

I have accomplished nothing stupendous, I've not visited anywhere terribly exciting, I've not made brilliant discoveries, I have not contributed to society. I am an ordinary woman, leading a very ordinary life. Right now, at this very moment, I want nothing more than this very mundane life. It's less complicated, and it is relatively painless.

Was it Shakespeare who coined, "Woe is me"? I can never recall. Perhaps a better phrase to describe this moment is from that old nursery rhyme which describes, "Wednesday's child is full of woe."

I was born on a Wednesday.