Fragile

I guess the problem of celebrities is perennial.

@rav3n and how their influence is manifest in the society.

I am not overly impressed that AI and high use of devices will make up for the shortcomings. Sorry, guess I am old fashioned. I have a few decades of teaching up my sleeve. The increase in learned helplessness may also play into the lack of resilience…. But I am generalising. There will always be exceptions….I live in hope..l

@Till23 @Dimity @tyme

Hugs @Emelia8 thank you for your support

how are you? And Hannah?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-01/childcare-worker-alleged-sexual-assaults-melbourne-west/105480228

As someone with 2 generations of CSA in institutional settings, and individual personal experience, and as someone who has mixed with many others during silent protests and attempts to get enquiries and commissions in place, I am concerned about this situation. Concerned in many ways. I don’t believe, mass screening for sexually transmitted infectious diseases is wise. And yes personally triggering, as a person with files eagerly stamped with examinations done… and yes, the knowledge among survivors that not all doctors are ethical about it. KEEP YOUR HANDS TO YOURSELF DOC. Disgust, disgust, disgust. Outrage. Even in the legal circles there needs to be more care and less assumptions.

Please be careful with other young lives.

you can put a trigger warning on this. I won’t tag people who are not employed for support

@tyme @rav3n @Jynx @AuntGlow

yes this issue is part of the context of premature deaths in my family.

Hearing you @Appleblossom 👍💗 and yes, you have my silent support and greatest admiration. Always 💕

I am okay thanks. Having fortnightly apts with my psychologist, which is helping. And Hannah 🐕 is also a big help 😀 💞

Little signs of connection like pushing the support really helps. @Emelia8 I guess after a while we don’t have to say much, but the little touch matters.

Yes, our fur family makes a big difference.

I had a good session with my psychiatrist today. He said very briefly something in a way that showed he understood my circumstances. When his secretary called for the money, she said I was one of the good clients. I try hard not to go over time lot or be difficult. I am a good little Vegemite…. lol.. have been with them for years.

Not sure how your weather is… it’s wet here…

 Greg Irvine - Sunday, St Kilda

and Portrait of a Lady on a balcony

Cheering myself up with a new artist… that I have recently learned about

@rav3n @tyme @Ru-bee

I love these @Appleblossom I can see why'd their pieces would cheer you up - they're so vibrant

wow i love those! i'm so used to seeing artwork from Europe and the US... and then when i see ones from Australia like Irvine's, it's always a lovely surprise recognising some of the places from the paintings! thanks for sharing @Appleblossom 💙

@AuntGlow

thank you for your response about me visiting my father’s grave.

Maybe it is best I share about my feelings over here. I lost my father as a child, and had a lot of death and abandonment to deal with in various ways throughout my life. I am probably too used to being alone. Eg left at 6 with young ones to care for. Orphanages and all that, then return as a single child to my parents, but then dad died. Complex family circumstances. I tried to adapt my post to normalise and give an example of grief. My sister died young too, even younger than dad, and is buried with my father, I have found comfort visiting the graves of my family over the years. I don’t do it all the time anymore, but had a couple of weeks ago. Yes letting go…. And respectful remembrance is important.

Some interesting synchronicities in my life, Eg a person I just met, are showing me some bizarre woo connections with a triggering event outside my family’s control, which may have led to my parents being stressed and psychotic and going into psych wards when we were put in orphanage.

I am grateful to the forum too, as a member who lived in the area knew of this event, and I was able to place a weird little memory, off to the side, of 6 years old apple, which has historical records online.

Ah that is why it happened! It would have been really traumatic for them and very unsafe. But for me it was a curiosity, and dad held my hand and encouraged me to walk on the broken air plane wing, but then they were gone….it wasn’t the only reason, but the straw that broke the camel’s back.

@Dimity @tyme @Emelia8 @Ru-bee @rav3n @Zoe7 @Faith-and-Hope @AuntGlow