Happy New Year - Looking Forward 2008

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Looking Forward to 2008!

When all about you is black with gloom,

And all you feel is pending doom.

When your bones are racked with grim despair -

When every breath is a gasp for air.

Keep on going, though you need to grope,

For around the bend is a ray of hope.

A ray of hope is perhaps all that's left,

As your will to live has been bereft.

You've lost it all, it's just no use!

You can end it all, you need no excuse.

But throw away that piece of rope,

And give yourself a chance of hope.

Just give yourself another day,

Brushing aside what your thoughts may say.

This is your life and you can make a new start,

By ignoring the brain - just follow the heart.

Taking baby steps in order to cope,

And minute by minute you'll build on your hope.

Build on your hope, one day at a time,

Though the road be steep and hard to climb.

The hurts of the past - they should be dead.

The fears of the future are all in your head.

Just live in the present and refuse to mope

Your life will sparkle for you're living in hope.

Hope
by Brian Quinn

2007 - Looking back

Looking back at the year 2007, good and very tragic sad times.

Two major highlights new job in SA and Isla Mae born 10 Dec.

Two very heart felt departures Auntie Irene and JD Ashton.

Gravity and Depth are the only two words I can find to explain "I", she was an amazing mother to three beautiful daughters and a non stop attention giving Nana to all in her care. To the extended family as well - the Fire Cracker Chinese Restaurant in Perth will never be the same!

Jonathan Ashton was a lad that I fell head over heals in love with, left home to live with in Philip St in Toowoomba QLD, and stayed a solid friend over the last decade or more with.

To the point of walking past each other on opposite sides of Market Street in Fremantle a few years back and not able to turn around and catch up with him and Shauna fast enough.

My most cherished memory of JD is being introduced to Grover - the wonder dog.

The love he showed this animal was a cementing moment in my life that left a mark of a amazing man.

So on 25th Dec 2007 - no call to JD for HAPPY BIRTHDAY, just a quiet moment to say thank you and smile.

Merry Xmas - Meow

Wishing one and all a merry christmas - yule tide!

Isla Mae Rowe

Isla Mae Rowe - 10 Dec 2007 @ 1116 am

Welcome to the world bella!

Second child to my sister Delilah and little sister to Kade Rowe

xx