Author: Maria

Disability Life Journey
01/04/2023

Human dignity means valuing and appreciating humanness.

Human dignity means valuing and appreciating humanness no matter how quirky or misaligned a human function is. A pride parade of smugness that every human being functions as a human being no matter how quirky or misaligned that function is. Acknowledgement each and every soul is born into human existence with a connected innate grace that makes them equal in the eyes of the creator […]

Australia Life Journey
25/03/2023

Peace, Prosperity, Happiness – A chosen path

No matter where people live on Earth giving birth can be an empowering experience for any woman, however, the encounter comes with risks including maternal and infant death. One could say that those who live in Australia are luckier than some populations living in third world countries. But living in Australia does not stop mothers and babies dying in childbirth no matter what the colour […]

Australia Life Journey
25/03/2023

Feel love, show love, share love of time and life

Once upon a heaven’s day Love came to me with tears of joy and sadness. Help us, Help us, the masses cried. Help us, Help us, the masses cried. Joy! Joy! Joy! to the world below and beyond. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you… Feel the love. Show the love. Share the love of time and life, today and tomorrow, it is the chosen path. […]

Australia Disability Life Journey
25/03/2023

Without me, there is no we…

Without me, there is no we. Here we have a human problem that cannot be solved by any written legislation. Just image, if you care to, how much happened to my husband in the 65 years he lived with paraplegia, and to me in the 43 years we shared together. The physical exertion and pain, the financial struggle, the emotional trauma, the mental anguish. The […]

Australia Life Journey
13/02/2023

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia’ is a modern dreamtime

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia’ is a modern dreamtime of some power driven greedy Aboriginal/First Nations activists… Will these people achieve in Australia what Putin has in Russia…? My concern is not a personal issue related to one personal experience it is a public interest issue that effects all people said to have protection under our Australian Constitution and current complex and confusing human […]

Australia Disability Life Journey
18/02/2022

Inside and Outside Maria’s Disability Pie

Inside and Outside Maria’s Dis-ability Pie. The place I come from is not explained by the colour of our skin, our cultural heritage, our ancestral heritage, our gender, our sexual preference, our age, where we lived or what language we spoke. I come from a place no one else can because no one else but Tony and I was there. Young lovers eagerly, willingly, committed […]