Wife, mother, Poet, Writer, Art Installationist, Stand Up Comedian, Dog Enthusiast. Spending most of my time being creative in a variety of sometimes quirky ways!
I have suffered in my life, I have had wonderful things occur in my life. Concentrating on the wonderful things makes it easier for me to live a great life.
But as I’m learning, it’s also a tricky thing to get organised, and to get the word out about it. And when that business is an art related thing, but doesn’t actually happen at an Art Gallery, but actually is something quite different, it’s at your front fence, well, difficult!
I’m excited about this business idea, but oh my, it’s not easy to get my head around all of the hits and pieces. I have plans regarding getting help about that, and with luck, and action on my part, 2026 may be the year I begin making my way in the business world!
Some people may find this challenge a bit scary, but to me the challenge is exciting, not scary at all! The worst thing to happen is that it won’t work in terms of making money.
I won’t be spending much more than I already do, so given how things currently are, it’s a no brainer to not go for it!
2026 will be the year I give business a go, and stop pussy footing around with it all!
I suspect next year will actually bring a number of confusing and worrying things, as well as clarity and things, same as usual, but not completely …
My earnest expectation is that my long thought about, written about, and sadly ignored Business may actually blossom in the new year, and may begin making money!
Today I’ve put together notes, to share with a relevant person who knows what they’re doing, and will be able to set me on the right track.
And I know where to go to get this process started, and I’ll go there tomorrow morning, or in the afternoon, when I will have an empty time between other appointments.
So bring on the clarity, I’m ready and willing to embrace you, big time!
For me, being an Art Installation Curator means thinking about that Installation often, every day in fact. There are a variety of different aspects of that, a main one obviously is having items on display, and the item above is such an item.
My ‘Redbanks RUST & FOUND Art Installation’, in the Adelaide Plains Region of South Australia, is made up of found objects, so I’m always on the look out for items to put out On display, and that lovely battered and rusty Screwdriver is the latest item, and I was certainly thrilled to find it!
I was walking along the road this Art Installation is on, which is also where I live, and a slight deviation from my path brought me to this delightul tool! I quickly grabbed it, then took it along with me as my husband and I and our dog Lenny continued our walk.
it’s been a while since I’ve found an item of note, such as this one, and so when our walk was over, I happily and quickly examined possible options for a good display spot. And then I placed it out, as shown in the photo just there.
This Art Installation is home to a good few such tools, found by myself as I walk around various places. I’m not particularly looking for potential such display items, but am always open to the possibility of finding them!
Life’s like that, I feel – remaining open to good things that may happen, makes it more likely they will in fact happen. If I hadn’t taken that slight sidetrack today, this Screwdriver would have remained in the undergrowth, becoming ever rustier until it finally became a scattered collection of rusty scraps of nothing much at all.
As the Curator of this Installation, a major role is definitely the collection of such material. And the putting these items is of course an important part. Another not so readily recognised part, is bearing in mind possible ways to bring attention of potential visitors to what is on display. This aspect is an ongoing learning experience for me, and I’m glad to have this website where my various Business related interests are ‘out there’ on show!
There are over 700 items on display – tools, horseshoes, old chains, and a varied collection of other items, in various shapes and sizes. They’re found, then eventually put on display, for visitors to view.
I’m keen now though to bring an exciting new aspect of this Art Installation to the fore, and that is as a Tourist site. In the Adelaide Plains Region, agriculture has always been the most important business.
These days though, with ever increasing numbers of residents with no working relationship with agriculture, but only that of being a consumer of such products, there is much more of a focus on other ways to bring interest and so money into our region. My desire is to assist in increasing visitor numbers to the northern Adelaide Plains Region, to the betterment of all of us here!
At the moment, I’m both happy with things in my life, while being sad about the reasons for that, but now also terribly upset about an awful medical situation for a loved family member.
I’m fine, and husband, son, and daughter-in-law are also fine. But death has marched into my life twice this year, and demanded I deal with my thoughts and ideas about such deaths. The idea of ‘a blessed relief’ has never before been as well understood as on the death of these two.
Living with pain, with inadequate pain relief is a terrible thing, and at the moment I’m definitely in favour of the idea of euthanisia and voluntary assisted dying. The two deaths I’m referring to here are firstly than of my mother, and secondly, that of a dog who has been living with my husband and I for about a year.
The second death, that of the loved pet, who was an old dog, suffering from a nasty cancer in her shoulder that was causing her much pain. She was humanely ‘put down’ recently, in my home, with the people who loved her present, with a vet doing the medical procedure.
It was a sad, but also glad time, because we all knew how much pain this poor dog had been suffereing from in recent times. And at her age 14 years, and considering the cancer, there was no way she was going to recover and be completely pain free, for more that a matter of a few months, and only if she’d gone through the removal of the affected leg.
That was deemed to be far too much, by her owners, my son and his wife, and having lived with this lovely dog for so long, I also wanted her pain to be gone, even if that meant she would have to die. That pain, even with pain killers, was awful to see, and would have been terrible for her to experience, I’m sure.
Her final day. She loved to lie down on the grass, in the sun!
So all of us present on this day could agree, this was a beautiful and compassionate ending to a life lived with those who cared.
Sadly, my mother’s death was something quite different to this loved dog’s ending, even though Mum also had people in her life who loved her and wished her well. My mother, at 85 years of age, died, also having suffered pain, even though she had been taking pain relief.
That pain relief though seems to have actually have been adding to some of her medical symptoms, is my understanding, although I am far from a medically trained person. My mother had been taking paracetamol, and the cause of her death was this:
Combined effects of paracetamol toxicity and cardiac failure led to my mother’s death
While this was an awful way to die, at her age, death was only around the corner anyway, so in a metter of only a few years, it was bound to happen.
The death of this lovely dog mentioned, at her age of 14, it was on its way too. A new death has occured though, a third death, with this death being the death of a young man, my nephew from a torn Aorta, that was unexpected, devastating and awful. My nephew was a young man, happy in life now, living his dream life in fact, until, suddenly this disease hits him, and despite operations to try to save his life, he died.
I’m having trouble with this death, it has hurt me to the core, and I am incredibly sad for his parents and siblings who’ve lived with him, and know the beautiful soul that he was, so much better than I. I can only think of the pride and love I’ve felt for my nephew, and feel grateful to have known him.
So, yes, there have been good things in my life, but overall, at the moment, the bad is weighing heavily on me, and on my family. If bad things come in threes, then are the better times on their way? I don’t believe in that either
I wish I was a believer in heaven, but the best I can do is to imagine my mother, the young man, and that loved dog all getting together and have a lovely time with pats, treats, and love galore!
May we all have such beautiful times, in life, many times, before the Grim Reaper comes to do his job and takes us away.
My mind is filled with so many ideas, it’s difficult to settle down to actually write anything, sometimes, like right now! I had a fabulous idea to write about a plant that’s going well in our garden, making it a combination of giving information about herbs, and also including poetry, which is a very much favoured way to write for me.
This new plant has flowered, and I’ve noticed the bees around the place are very much attracted to the sweet little flowers that grow on this plant, which is new to me, having been icluded in a seed mix to plant out ro attract butterflies, and as I’ve noticed, also bees.
The plant is borage, and if you click on the link, you’ll see the lovely little blue flowers, and large leaves.
What I wanted to do, and may still do, is to write a bit about Borage, and how it came to be growing in our garden, and then post an Acrostic poem using “B O R A G E” as the starting letters of a six line poem about this delightful new plant …
So that’s one thing, but I also possibly could be writing more of the Cosy Murder Mystery Novel I’m possibly more that half way through, but have been more or less ignoring for far too long. I’ve also been ignoring this website of mine, even though I actually love writing and connecting with other people online!
And of course there are the other things on this website of mine, which is relatively new to me, and I’m not really sure about how to use effectively … I haven’t been loving it, so have been ignoring it, which anyone who comes here may realise.
The image above is definitely NOT what I wanted to post here, which proves how much I still need to learn about how to use this website! I’d actually taken that photograph for something else entirely, the monthly newsletter I create and distribute in my local town, Mallala.
The photo was of one of the entertainments at the 2025 Mallala Christmas Street Party, which curiously takes place mostly at the local oval, rather that the street …
Anyway, enough of this, it’s time to move on to other things now, and I promise I’ll be back again soon, as long as I manage to actually manage to get here again! Haha, at least my sense of humour is still working!
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 