BOOK TITLE: The Australia Times - Life & Love magazine. Volume 2, issue 6
COMPANY NAME: THE AUSTRALIA TIMES
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LIFE & LOVE
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AUSTRALIA
August 2014Vol. 2 No: 6
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE
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EDITOR’S WELCOME 3
‘TIS THE SEASON TO BE SNOTTY 6
PLAY TIME 10
MY HEART IS A GLOBE: ROME 18
LEARNING TO HANGOUT 22
DTF: A DATE TO FORGET 26
ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA 32
BOOK THE STRIPPER, WE’RE HAVING A
DIVORCE PARTY! 36
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Independent Media Inspiring Minds
This issue, we are getting busy.
Busy learning, that is, but not how you might think.
We’ve been learning to put down our phones,
pick up our plastic shovels and build sandcastles.
We have kicked off our winter boots to run
barefoot across the grass like school kids. We have
spent lazy Sunday mornings on the couch having
ludicrous tickling matches and frosty afternoons
inging the Frisbee through the last remaining
slivers of daylight.
We have curled up in sleeping bags, even on the
chilliest of evenings and gazed up at the glowing
night sky, armed with hot cups of tea and grins
plastered on our faces.
We have been learning how to just hang out,
reminding ourselves what it feels like to just muck
around, be silly and PLAY.
Being the control freak that I am, I sometimes
struggle to cope with uncertainty. Events I cannot
change, decisions I can’t control, rainy days when
the sun is nowhere in sight. But this month, I’ve
been trying to let go of that all-consuming desire
for certainty.
Life isn’t certain.
“Life is what happens while we’re busy making
other plans”, are words John Lennon once
shrewdly declared. Sometimes, no matter how
meticulously we may plan, we don’t have control
over what happens next. What we can control, as
I’m currently learning, is how we react – and that is