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Dear Daddy – A letter I needed to write

3rd May 2017 By Jonelle

Dear Daddy - A letter I needed to write

It feels like a lifetime since you left us here, figuring the world out without you. Over a decade has passed and yet every day will be the shortest time that you’ll ever be gone because as the days pass, so does the time since I last got to speak to you. I’m writing a…

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Filed Under: Death & Grief, Being Resilient, Blog Tagged With: a letter to my dad, coping with grief, death and grief, grief and loss, grief never goes away, grieving daughter, I miss you dad

God? [November 2008]

22nd August 2016 By Jonelle

God? [November 2008]

I wrote this poem in 2008 after my dad died in a car accident. There is nothing great about the poem itself. It was just a 23-year-old who had lost her dad rambling onto a page. I was traumatised for a long time after he died. His death changed everything about me and who I…

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As I get older – the things we learn as we grow

8th May 2015 By Jonelle

As I get older - the things we learn as we grow | Tyranny of Pink

As I get older, I’d like to think I also get wiser. You learn things along the way, things you can’t help knowing. Silly things like what you like and what you don’t like as much. You learn about the things that make you laugh (not slapstick humour) and you learn about the things that…

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: change is good for the soul, change your hair, getting old means spending time with the ones we love, grief never goes away, I hope I've learnt something, old isn't always wise, older and wiser, roll with the punches, some day I'll be wiser, sometimes you just need wine, the things I know, what I've learnt

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Hello, I’m Jonelle and this is my story.

Wow! This was a moment. Turning 40 when I almost d Wow! This was a moment.
Turning 40 when I almost didn’t live past 32. 
Grateful for every day of every year since then! 
Life is so precious and life is everything you make it. 

Thankful for all the opportunities I’ve had along the way. Thankful for all the people I’ve met and the leaps I’ve taken! 

Grateful to live where we do. 
Grateful for my family and friends. 
Grateful to live comfortably and never have to worry about being without. Such privilege in a world with so much struggle. 

Thankful for my pets who drive me nuts and love me endlessly. 

I’m looking forward to the next decade. Stepping more into myself and knowing who I am and what my boundaries are. The things I will not tolerate or accept. 

Just grateful for my life. 
The end. #HBD to me!
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