What has Alice been up since 2010 to now?

Wow! its have been 5 years since my last entry in my blog and today is my 46th birthday and a wonderful friend, Leanne send me a pic of us taken together in India in 2007. This jotted my memories and I re-visited my blog to view the Indian trip back in Oct/Nov 2007 and whilst I was at it, started to read all the journals and videos since I started my blog journey way back in 2006.

Wow, what an adventure I had back then. Since 2010, I met a lovely man, Phil, got married, had a baby girl and Gemma is now 3 1/2 years old. All this time, I have been nesting and having lots of quiet and quality time with my young family.

Tonight, after reading my blog, I made up  mind to be more active and start blogging again. So watch this space for more updates to follow.........

Badger's Drumming Circle 14th August 2010

What a fantastic night it was at the monthly Badger's Drumming Circle. The energy and the spiritual & heart connection with everyone was awesome. I took my friends , Sue and Christine to their very first drumming circle and they enjoyed it tremendously as you can see from the smiles on their faces.

Updates

I can't believed that time has flown so fast and it has been nearly 10 months since my last blog. Lots and lots has happened...everything good and wonderful. I will fill in the blanks and uploads more photos as soon as I get time. Stay tune :-)

Spiritual Medicine for Relationship

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but not eat from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.

~The Prophet, Kahill Gibran

What have Alice been up to?

Ok it has been a while since I last posted what I have been up to. Well time sure has flown so quickly. Blink an eye and it has been months since I have kept up to date with my blog. I definitely have not been idle at all.

Well, this is a brief update. I am in a relationship with Phil :-) YooHoo!!!!, hit my 40th birthday, saw Pink's concert on the eve of my birthday, started my scuba diving course on my birthday and finally completed the course, so now I have the licence to thrill underwater!!. Been abseiling, hand gliding, goddess retreats, meditation, been in a plane with parachuters and filming them (that was awesome!)and still am drumming and belly dancing. :-) Life is fantastic and I am still having so much fun.

Me abseiling backwards

Me abseiling forward..that was fun and fast!

Me getting ready to do a sprint down the hill with the gliderYeah...I survived with minor scratches!!!

Me and Phil

PREM Bank

I am so proud of my little sister, Irene. She has been donating her excess breast milk to help preterm and ill hospitalised infants. This is a picture of her and her husband, Simon and Dr. Ben and Nurse Tracy at King Edward Memorial Hospital.

Attached is a letter from Dr. Ben in recognition of Irene's effort and the donation from Irene's work Alcoa.

Dear Julie and Rod,

Please find attached a photo of myself and our milk bank Nurse (Tracey Sedgwick) receiving the Alcoa Bravo Grant cheque from Irene Chai and her husband. The PREM Bank (Australia's first donor human milk bank) provides donated breast milk to preterm and ill hospitalised infants at King Edward Memorial and Princess Margaret Hospitals. Doctors looking after extremely preterm infants encourage and support all mothers to provide their own milk to their preterm baby as we know clinical outcomes are improved and artificial formula may be associated with significant clinical complications in these babies. However, as these baby's may be born up to 3 months early (at 23-24 weeks) weighing as little as 400g some mothers struggle to provide sufficient breastmilk to meet their baby's needs (these babies will not physically able to breastfeed for up to 2-3 months so mum will be initiating and maintaining her milk supply with a breast pump). For these babies, we now offer the option of pasteurised donor human milk (PDHM) which is provided by mothers, such as Irene, who are producing more milk than their own baby requires. The screening process we subjected Irene to was consistent with that for blood donation (questionaire and blood test) and all milk is heat treated and tested before being made available - with parental consent - to patients in our Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Now in our 3rd year of operation we provide donor milk 7 days per week and use 2-3 litres daily - on any day we may be feeding up to 20 babies in the NICU. Initially, a tiny 24 week old baby may only require 12mls of milk over a 24 hour period. This volume is gradually increased and we hope that supporting mothers with donor milk allows time for them to establish and increase their own supply.

We would like to thank Alcoa for providing the Bravo Grant which will enable the purchase of equipment to increase our processing capacity. More importantly, we would like to take the opportunity to thank Irene for her extremely generous donations which, over the course of her donation has helped many extremely preterm babies and their families.

Kind regards,
Ben
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Dr Ben Hartmann
PREM Bank Manager
Neonatology Clinical Care Unit
1st Floor Block A
King Edward Memorial Hospital
Bagot Rd
Subiaco 6008
Ph: 08 9340 1563
Fax: 08 9340 1266

A Spiritual Conspiracy

A Spiritual “Conspiracy”

On the surface of our world right now
There is war, violence, and craziness
And things may seem dark.

But calmly and quietly
At the same time
Something is happening underground.

An inner revolution is taking place
And certain individuals
Are being called to a higher light.

It is a silent revolution
From the inside out
From the ground up.

This is a global co-operation
That has sleeper cells in every nation.
It is a planetary Spiritual Conspiracy.

You won’t likely see us on T.V.
You won’t read about us in the newspaper.
You won’t hear from us on the radio. We don’t seek glory.
We don’t wear any uniform.
We come in all shapes and sizes, colors and styles.

We are in every country and culture of the world
In cities big and small, mountains and valleys
In farms and villages, tribes and remote islands.

Most of us work anonymously
Seeking not recognition of name
But profound transformation of life.
Working quietly behind the scenes

You could pass by one of us on the street
And not even notice.
We go undercover
Not concerned for who takes the final credit
But simply that the work gets done.

Many of us may seem to have normal jobs.
But behind the external storefront
Is where the deeper work takes a place.
With the individual and collective power
Of our minds and hearts
We spread passion, knowledge, and joy to all.
Some call us the Conscious Army
As together
We co-create a new world.

Our orders come from the Spiritual Intelligence Agency
Instructing us to drop soft, secret love bombs
when no one is looking. Poems ~ Hugs ~ Music
Photography ~Smiles ~Kind words
Movies ~ Meditation and prayer ~ Dance ~ Websites
Social activism ~ Blogs ~ Random acts of kindness…

We each express ourselves
In our own unique ways
With our own unique gifts and talents.
“Be the change you want to see in the world”
That is the motto that fills our hearts.

We know this is the path to profound transformation.
We know that quietly and humbly
Individually and collectively
We have the power of all the oceans combined.

At first glance our work is not even visible.
It is slow and meticulous
Like the formation of mountains.
And yet with our combined efforts
Entire tectonic plates
Are being shaped and moved for centuries to come.

Love is the religion we come to share
And you don’t need to be highly educated
Or have exceptional knowledge to understand it.

Love arises from the intelligence of the heart
Embedded in the timeless evolutionary pulse
Of all living beings.

Be the change you want to see in the world.
Nobody else can do it for you.
Yet don’t forget, we are all here supporting you.

We are now recruiting.
Perhaps you will join us
Or already have.
For in this spiritual conspiracy
All are welcome, and all are loved.
The door is always open.~

~Author Appropriately Unknown

Hillman Farm Skydiving

Lesley and I did a trip down to Hillman Farm Skydiving Adventure in Darkan for Lesley's long awaited tandem skydiving jump. Phil organised the booking and for us to meet his lovely skydiving family. The weekend was awesome and here is the video to show the highlights. Check out www.skydivingadventure.com.au