Writing Memoir Archives - The Art of Creative Writing https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/category/memoir/ Your muse is live in the city and the bush Sat, 23 Nov 2024 03:11:52 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/cropped-cropped-cropped-cropped-cropped-cropped-Seagull-Ascent-2-32x32.jpg Writing Memoir Archives - The Art of Creative Writing https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/category/memoir/ 32 32 The Grafton Jacaranda Festival of Yesteryear https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/the-grafton-jacaranda-festival-of-yesteryear/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/the-grafton-jacaranda-festival-of-yesteryear/#comments Sun, 29 Oct 2023 01:36:00 +0000 http://blog.anneskyvington.com/?p=8874 I’m remembering the Jacaranda Festivals of my childhood at Grafton in northern New South Wales, with a certain nostalgia. Did such a time of innocence really exist? Is this celebration different today? Below is a photo from my sister’s album of her, Sweet Susan, and our dear little sister, Jillian, folk dancing with school friends […]

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]]> https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/the-grafton-jacaranda-festival-of-yesteryear/feed/ 6 Culture Shock and Vive La Difference https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/culture-shock-and-vive-la-difference/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/culture-shock-and-vive-la-difference/#respond Sat, 31 Dec 2022 07:50:20 +0000 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/?p=19873 Definitions “Culture Shock” is the term for an individual’s surprise, dismay and/or euphoria when first meeting with an alien or different culture. I experienced culture shock as euphoria, when I first arrived in Paris in the sixties. It’s not surprising that I was amazed at the beauty of the place. So different from Australian landscape, […]

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]]> https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/culture-shock-and-vive-la-difference/feed/ 0 A Memorable Third Reunion for Armidale Teachers’ College https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/a-memorable-second-reunion-for-armidale-teachers-college/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/a-memorable-second-reunion-for-armidale-teachers-college/#respond Fri, 09 Dec 2022 00:49:23 +0000 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/?p=19703 The Class of 1961-1962 A group of 65 of us — ex-Armidale Teachers’ College students — braved the weather and returned to our alma mater on Wednesday, 19th October, 2022, for a 60th reunion held over three days. We now know that the heritage-listed Armidale Teachers’ College was once the site of a former prison, […]

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]]> https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/a-memorable-second-reunion-for-armidale-teachers-college/feed/ 0 Do Soul Mates Really Exist, Or Not? https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/do-soul-mates-really-exist-or-not/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/do-soul-mates-really-exist-or-not/#respond Tue, 06 Dec 2022 01:40:23 +0000 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/?p=19245 A true story of karmic proportions…if you believe… Let me state at the outset that a soul mate is not necessarily a perfect match, in fact rarely is that the case, since it is a spirit-relationship, not a pragmatic coupling, like the ones you see on reality television programs, such as The Bachelor or Bachelorette. […]

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]]> https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/do-soul-mates-really-exist-or-not/feed/ 0 From the Archives: Australian Story https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/from-the-archives-australian-story/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/from-the-archives-australian-story/#respond Tue, 14 Jun 2022 00:04:17 +0000 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/?p=19303 I first saw the following video on a Facebook group that I belong to: Armidale Teachers College: The Class of 1961-1962 This was the year, 1963, that I started teaching primary school children in Granville, Western Sydney. The girls I taught were aged 8 and 9 and in 3rd and 4th classes. Some of my […]

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]]> https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/from-the-archives-australian-story/feed/ 0 I visit the Ukraine in 1968 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/i-visit-the-ukraine-in-1968/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/i-visit-the-ukraine-in-1968/#respond Fri, 25 Feb 2022 02:30:52 +0000 http://write4publish.com/?p=7119 My Travel Journal Continues: “From Paris to Russia and Back” Because of the events in Ukraine today, I have re-published this post with sadness in my heart at the thought of these memorable days. May the sufferings of the Ukrainian people come to an end soon, and the Russian troops ordered into the country by […]

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]]> https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/i-visit-the-ukraine-in-1968/feed/ 0 Did I Spoil My Child? Or Was It A Sign Of Infinite And Precious Love? And Polarities! https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/did-i-spoil-my-child-or-was-it-a-sign-of-infinite-and-precious-love-and-polarities/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/did-i-spoil-my-child-or-was-it-a-sign-of-infinite-and-precious-love-and-polarities/#respond Mon, 10 Jan 2022 02:51:36 +0000 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/?p=20247 My daughter leaves parts of herself all around the place. She especially sheds bits and pieces chez moi. As if she doesn’t want to be apart from me for any length of time. I find cigarette lighters, books, old credit cards, dirty clothes, clean clothes, makeup, food, bottles without lids on them, and children’s toys […]

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]]> https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/did-i-spoil-my-child-or-was-it-a-sign-of-infinite-and-precious-love-and-polarities/feed/ 0 Candidly Yours… https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/candidly-yours/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/candidly-yours/#comments Wed, 23 Oct 2019 02:01:56 +0000 http://anneskyvingtonblog.wordpress.com/?p=77 In search of a voice… My writing started out as therapy for a polarised — to be explained later on — childhood.  My own background had been stamped indelibly by my not having had a voice within the extended family I was born into. Others in my family had gorged themselves on yackety-yak, thereby filling […]

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]]> https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/candidly-yours/feed/ 9 Ancient Stories from Childhood https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/ancient-stories-from-childhood/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/ancient-stories-from-childhood/#respond Sun, 08 Sep 2019 01:56:28 +0000 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/?p=15448 As a child growing up in a valley where diversity was met with suspicion, I learnt, first-hand, about racism. However, I also saw paradoxes within my cocooned world, and turned to STORY to try to understand the conflicted reality surrounding me like a grey pall after bushfires. One of my favourite uncles, let’s call him […]

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]]> https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/ancient-stories-from-childhood/feed/ 0 Return to Croatia https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/return-to-croatia/ https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/return-to-croatia/#respond Wed, 14 Mar 2018 21:00:59 +0000 https://www.anneskyvington.com.au/?p=13722 En Route to Croatia We just flew over the mountains of Eastern Europe en route to Frankfurt from Dubai. Qantas have teamed up with the United Arab Emirates airline, so we did the first leg from Sydney to Dubai with Qantas, and the second one from Dubai to Frankfurt with Emirates. I really enjoyed stopping […]

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