Caroline (@consciouscat)
Transformational Specialist | Online Educator | Avid Adventurer | Storyteller
Where did the last month go??? 🤦♀
Oh dear. It appears to be 1st September, and I feel like I have been MIA from Hive for altogether far too long. There is evidence in my lack of posts, lack of comments, but also that I had a grand ...
Can we set up a parkrun course in the dark?
It’s 5:31 am and we walk out into the cold, dark night. I have my bright headtorch on, and it’s a marked change from inky black that surrounds us. I press familiar buttons on my watch and start a r...
Birthdays are a day to celebrate that you exist. Agree or disagree? (LOH #293)
It seems that birthdays appear to create very different responses in different people. I, for one, love being celebrated on my birthday. In fact, it feels really important to me that I am with peop...
Heard of red light therapy?
I've been learning about and playing with different colours in the light spectrum for a few years now. I have come to understand that there are a lot of benefits to red and infrared light. While I ...
I needed help and was brave enough to ask. Here's what happened. [LOH #291]
It was November 2015, and I had just contracted Dengue Fever. I was living on the island of Bali, several thousand kilometres from my family. I knew on that very first night that I had Dengue Fever...
Is it Hive Power Up Day already?!
How did another month go by, just like that, already? It's amazing how fast it goes! This month I was pretty impressed because I managed to power up another 100 HIVE (or stake, as we say). And actu...
I made an assumption and I totally was wrong. Here's what happened...
I had an hour in total between leaving the house and when I needed to get back to the house to be able to go to the local shops: - buy a whole bunch of groceries - some natural insect repellent - p...
I had an accident. Here's how I navigated it... (The result is impressive!)
We had some guys over yesterday, and they were installing solar panels on our roof. Originally, I thought I would be needed to help, but @new.things let me know they had it covered. I thought I wou...
I keep seeing 111, 222, 333...
This morning I went for an easy (ish!) jog for the first time since parkrun last Saturday. My watch offered me a Drill Workout, which consisted of a 10 min warm up, 5x 30 sec cadence drills, 5x acc...
I was not expecting this much rain...
Gosh, it's wet! Today I only managed to get 6,000 steps because it rained and rained and rained some more. I did sneak in a brief walk this morning. I'd watch the rain radar like a hawk and picked ...
Where's the balance between too much and not enough?
It took us just under 1 hour 15 to run a lap around the perimeter (ish) of the big chunk of bush near our home. After a very broken night of sleep, I wasn't sure that I should be attempting my long...
Do you like pumpkin?!
Almost by accident, my partner (@new.things) and I grew a butternut pumpkin as long as my torso! We like gardening. I grew up with a mother who was into permaculture. And when Brad was a teenager, ...
Why do I keep buying more books?!
I love books. I was raised by two well-educated humans who were both teachers for a few or a lot of years. They were also both big bookworms. My mother always had a novel on the go, and still does ...
Kata Tjuta, Northern Territory, Australia - 2004
While I was living and working in Central Australia, based out of the very small town of Yulara, I would end up out at Kata Tjuta (also known as The Olgas) at least once a week. The company I...
Can You Be A Compassionate Witness?
Just over a month ago, a tragedy happened to a family who live on our street. An 18 year old girl, fell while climbing down a small mountain about 1 1/2 hours north of here. She was climbing with h...