Celebration….50,000 Views!

It’s party time. This week, Beyond the Flow finally clocked up 50,000 views. Wow! So, we’re going  Celebrate with a photographic retrospective.

I’m so excited about reaching this milestone…especially when it took around 2 years to finally reach the 10,000 mark. There was quite a lot of soul searching back then, but what they say about persistence and hard work paying off, is all true. Moreover, it’s not worth selling your soul to get numbers over content. My bottom line is connecting with people and hopefully they find something through my journey crawling over deep and dark crevices in the mountain, celebrating at the summit and then fighting my way along through to the next summit. It’s no wonder I love watching clouds and immersing myself in nature. You can’t seize the day without a bit of balance.

Blogging is very much about reciprocation. Communcation. Conversation. So, it hasn’t just been about me, but I hope it’s equally been about you. Not as some cheap marketing or political cliche,  but through sharing each others’ journeys.

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The Happy Family

A family photo with Bilbo as a pup Mother’s Day, 2007.

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The family playing violin

Our Family 2014- Byron Bay Lighthouse, Australia.

Family Photo 2nd July 2010 outside Byron Bay Lighthouse

The Family

In this way, blogging is very different from writing a book and sticking it out there…especially in the more traditional sense where your book was published by a publisher and reader and writer rarely ever met. That is, beyond fleeting book signings or, at best, author talks.

So, I would like to thank everyone who’s made my blog our meeting place where we’ve poured each other more than a cup of words and made this big planet with all if differences, divides and troubles, shrink and become touchingly intimate.

Bilbo Beach

Dog Beach: my daughter inscribed this with a stick in the sand.

Lady at Ocean Beach, NSW.

Our Philosophical Dog walking along beside the tide. He doesn’t like getting wet paws.

Ocean Beach, Umina after the storm.

The Dogs at the Beach.

The Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House viewed from a ferry looking East.

The Queen Victoria Building or “QVB” , Southern end.

Sydney Opera House

The Sydney Harbour Bridge viewed from Sydney Tower Eye.

University of Sydney 1870s

Sydney

Nigella’s Nightmare…The Avalanche.

Happy Birthday Mister.

The epitomy of perfection: my Choc Orange Cupcake.

Lego Santa Loves Christmas Cake.

A Cupcake for Mum

The Thomas Cake. I think I used sprinkles to cover up the cake crumbs in the icing.

Evil Chocolate Cake

How could anything this sweet do you any harm?

I was quite surprised when my mum ordered me a violin cake for my birthday in 2012. It was something of a premonition! Good on you Mum!

Give Them Cake.

While I wouldn’t say that the blog is a perfect mirror image of our lives, it has captured so many important moments…the highs and lows, the celebrations and disappointments.

That is life with its ups and downs…a never-ending game of Snakes and Ladders…as much as we might not like it at times!

My favourite tea cup: Shelley’s sunset in the Tall Trees, designed by Charmian Clift.

Mister in the Climbing Tree 2011, Aged 6.

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Tea & Coffee

Philosophy adorning the toilet wall.

Me with Backpack

Writing on the Window Sill at the Hotel Henri IV July, 1992.

So, the journey continues…asking more questions, some with answers, more without but having that sense of belonging and being part of something beyond myself, where I live and that we can somehow transcend humanity’s shadows.

Love & Blessings to you all!

Rowena