Terima kasih*

My mood has been sombre and I haven’t much felt like blogging, with all the terrible news coming out of Victoria. No doubt I am a wuss but I have actually been avoiding much of the news because I don’t want to see any gruesome pictures or read any horror stories of what Victorians have been going through with the bushfires.

I haven’t been thinking much about what I am grateful for, this week, and actually it’s been a bit difficult to find five things, but I will try:

1. Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA. I have recently rediscovered this album, and it’s been playing constantly on my iPod for the last couple of weeks. I loved the album when I was a teenager and still know all the lyrics. It’s strangely comforting listening.
2. Our accountant. (Although I think we will be doing our tax returns ourselves this year.)
3. The Swan river. I love crossing it everyday on my way to work. (I wonder what the Nyungar name for the river is?)
4. My Pelikan M450. My current daily pen. I love writing with it.
5. Opportunities. I am going to Aurora next week.

I leave you with some lyrics from No Surrender by Bruce Springsteen:

Now on the street tonight the lights grow dim
The walls of my room are closing in
There’s a war outside still raging
you say it ain’t ours anymore to win
I want to sleep beneath peaceful skies in my lover’s bed
with a wide open country in my eyes
and these romantic dreams in my head

*Thank you in Malay. Literally, “Receive love”.