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Today marks a pretty important day for me. You see today my mother gave birth to me. Mum is 90 this year and Dad 93. Guess you could say I am fortunate that I am blessed that they are both alive. I believe I am. Although they are km away in Singapore mum and still connect via whatapps on video. It means a lot for me. Add everyday I chat with Mum and sometimes dad. He does not use technology at all.

I am also blessed as I have an amazing wife that keeps me on the straight and narrow and a beautiful daughter who is in uni. I also have 2 jack Russell’s. So today when I turn 62, yes it’s just a number I am grateful that I have been blessed with such abundance in life. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 🙏💧🌿🤗❤

2021

Well we are now in Feb 2021. January has gone and I have begun new journeys into my retired life. I have begun learning how essential oils can provide me a Healthier Lifestyle and how they work on my body. They help ground and calm me and helps to keep me balanced. Being a Young Living wholesaler now for 2 years I am finally getting into the business side of YL. I am an O.I.L.E.R . I know not where it will take me but all things considered I expect to make a good business out of it slowly and surely within the next 6 months. My mind is set. On the spiritual side I have joined an Alpha course and will continue to assist in RCIA classes within our parish.

Maxine

Tomorrow is the 4th of Feb and our daughter will be 20 Years Old. No longer a teenager. She has her whole life ahead of her. With 2 years left to complete her degree in OT she will be challenged. We have no doubt that she will do well as she seems to like the course and what it teachers her. I sometimes feel like I am losing her and often miss her being around as she spends a lot of time as her boyfriend house. Sonia and I have each other and we pray that this Corvid business will soon be controlled where we can travel again without worry and fuss. In the mean time life goes on.

Wow! We are already in 2021 and January is almost over. Next week my wife and I celebrate 32 years of marriage. Yes 32 years. But I have know her for 38 years. Is 6 years of dating too long. I don’t think so. We needed time to get to know each other and she needed to find her career. Is 32 years of marriage a long time. Well my parents have been married for 68 years and whilst their twilight years aren’t the best, we do become one for better or for worse. Like them I could not think of someone better to go through life with than Sonia.

She grounds me and makes me whole. Keeps me on the straight path and whilst we have had our ups and downs we love each other. That love may have changed over the years but its still love. A lot has happened in that time. We have a daughter that turns 20 next month and is doing an OT course. I believe she enjoys it. We have had friends and family gone before us and we miss them dearly. We have also migrated to Australia and I am now retired.

What does 2021 hold for us is already coming to past. My cousin Melissa has just passed away after her 9 year battle with Cancer. Sonia Aunt too is unwell and her Dad is battling the effects of diabetes in his old age. Corvid is still with us and will be for a long time to come. It is having untold stress and impact on all our lives as we can’t travel to see loved ones and its has impacted our work and everyday life. For someone that is retired that may not be much but I feel I have to be close at hand for my wife and daughter. As January comes to a close tomorrow our RCIA candidates will receive Baptism, confirmation and Communion that they couldn’t have in Mar 2020. We will catch up with friends at Elwood Beach and on Sunday will attend a Minyan for Melissa. Next week too one of our parishioners Joanne Muscat who passed away too on the same day as Melissa from the same Cancer is to be buried. In all not a great start to the year. But we must count our blessings and live on. Love on.

Well its been 4 months now since we have been in lockdown in Victoria Australia and it does not look like we are going to go anywhere soon. Most states within Australia have been closed since March and half the year is gone. July fast approaches and I am yet to go back to driving Uber since March 21 2020. The Corona virus has had a massive impact of our economy, mental health and sanity. Sonia and Maxine are working from home and the stress and anxiety is showing. Mostly for Sonia as she has been unable to go to work in her office. We have many new cases of people testing positive surrounding our neighbourhood in Caroline Springs. Every time we go out it is beginning to feel different and troubling. Qantas today announced 6000 job loses with 15000 staff stood down for now. Their planes are parked in the Mojave desert in America. Will they be the first of many to close. Maybe.

Wrote this to my whatsapp class of school.buddies from 1975 year. Yes we are still in contact with each other.

Good Morning guys. Well its winter for us here and we have it all. Rain, wet roads, 9 Deg C and maybe later storms and possible a blessing of hail. Lovely weather. Some restrictions are also easing in Victoria but not much. On the news is George Floyd and USA in turmoil. Let us pray that it will end and the madness stops. But its hard to change a culture overnight. Where is the sense and sensibility of it all. Especially in these times when the world needs to change and we need to change. Just drove the car in for service and the roads are not packed for a Monday. At Subaru Service center it looked like business as normal other than me having to state and sign that I am not sick. A piece of paper says that only 109 are allowed in the service center hangs loosely below the declaration. Really did they count? Well its Monday 1 June 2020 and the world is still changing. God Bless and have a great week ahead everyone. Be well, Stay safe and seize the day. Shalom!

It’s April 1st and my wife asked me. Hey Ron what on your face. She then points to my face and says yes right. Go look in the mirror, which I do. Then she says April Fool. Ok she got me.

How I wish that this virus was an April fool’s joke. How we all would wish it to be. But its not, all around world countries have been infected by many cases of this fast spreading contagion, Corvid19. It had also killed many people. So much so that borders have been closed. No-one can fly in or out from anywhere. In Australia, in Victoria we are on stage 3 lockdown.

Essentially meaning only two people from the same household can go out and only for essentials. Like the supermarket, GP, hospitals, for a quick exercise and not much more. Beaches have had to be closed as too many had flocked too the beach. Not sure what they were thinking. Gathering of more than two will see people being fined. Police are enforcing the restriction. Only essential workers like nurses can move about somewhat freely. And so our battle with this pandemic contributes as April begins. It also seems like suddenly the darkness descends upon us. Suddenly.