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New Blog post: Carpe diem....

Posted by torsum on Aug. 12, 2014, 3:11 a.m. 1 comment

It's been a big morning. News broke around the globe's social media that one of the funniest men on the planet, famous for 'seizing the day', in movies anyway, killed himself. For some reason it seems even sadder when a comedian has depression. Why is that? I guess the happy mask they wear is just amplified and more believable, so it seems less likely that they could be haunted with the same afflictions ...

New Blog post: Don't mess with a grieving mother

Posted by torsum on June 23, 2014, 7:08 a.m.

I have realised something.....I am very, very different to the person I used to be.

I wear masks, have attitude, and very often I don't care about anything. I simply don't care.

I am a force to be reckoned with because I have no fear anymore.

I laugh. Thank god I can laugh. It is the one small miracle in all of this.

Nothing scares me. Fear and hesitation disappeared the day ...

New Blog post: Shhhhhh don't talk about death....

Posted by torsum on June 12, 2014, 2:03 a.m. 1 comment

Why can't people talk about it?

One thing that is guaranteed in this world is that we are all going to die and we're all going to lose people we love. Why then do we have such an inability to talk about death/grief and all the emotions that go with it? Our ancestors have been dying before us, and at far younger ages than us! Why didn't we learn from them ...

New Blog post: Survival is the only choice after a child dies

Posted by torsum on June 5, 2014, 4:07 a.m. 1 comment

When Sophie said her private good byes to her brother behind the ICU curtain she took this amazing photo. She never told us and then suddenly it appeared on her facebook page with these words:

"Will I can't describe how much I'm going to miss you. Through everything that has happened to our family, we have always had each other's backs, and you have helped me with so much. I never thought ...

New Blog post: Houses and flowers.....

Posted by torsum on June 4, 2014, 9:59 a.m.

It’s the Saturday after the funeral and I cant believe what’s just happened. My phone rang early and it is the agent from down south with a more reasonable offer on the farm, and they want to settle in 10 days. I have to do this. I have to sell that chain around my ankles and look forward. I rush into Subiaco and meet the agent and my accountant. I gloss over the ...