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!
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!
This event will be at 2 to 3pm on the 28th of July 2025, at 1594 Germantown Road REDBANKS South Australia. If you are able to get there, feel free to contact me and I’ll keep a look out for you!
The image above shows a small section of my Art Installation, a very small part of it. But in this section are perhaps thirty or more items of the Redbanks RUST & FOUND Art Intallation, with the entire Installation having more than 700 individual items on display!
The intention with this brief display is to guage interest in it, and to showcase the variety of interesting concepts it touches on. There are definitely recycling aspects, with many of the items on display thrown away as rubbish, and headed for the dump.
To me though, every item can tell as story, about us, about how we feel about our world, and about the commnity we live it. There are concepts of road safety there as well, and the ideas around history too.
But is it Art though? I say yes, and I’d love to hear what other people think about that!
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 