Weekly photo Challenge: The calm face of past and present

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist
© irene waters 2014

© irene waters 2014

At Angkorr Watt the history of the Cambodian people is told on the walls of the temples. Nothing has changed. Wars followed by peace. The temples a place of calm today and yesterday.

 

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About Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

I began my working career as a reluctant potato peeler whilst waiting to commence my training as a student nurse. On completion I worked mainly in intensive care/coronary care; finishing my hospital career as clinical nurse educator in intensive care. A life changing period as a resort owner/manager on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu was followed by recovery time as a farmer at Bucca Wauka. Having discovered I was no farmer and vowing never again to own an animal bigger than myself I took on the Barrington General Store. Here we also ran a five star restaurant. Working the shop of a day 7am - 6pm followed by the restaurant until late was surprisingly more stressful than Tanna. On the sale we decided to retire and renovate our house with the help of a builder friend. Now believing we knew everything about building we set to constructing our own house. Just finished a coal mine decided to set up in our backyard. Definitely time to retire we moved to Queensland. I had been writing a manuscript for some time. In the desire to complete this I enrolled in a post grad certificate in creative Industries which I completed 2013. I followed this by doing a Master of Arts by research graduating in 2017. Now I live to write and write to live.
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7 Responses to Weekly photo Challenge: The calm face of past and present

  1. MR's avatar M-R says:
    May 31, 2014 at 2:33 pm

    Those poor bastards, up there in Cambodia. How that Vietnamese Hun Sen ever managed to get himself into the position of their ‘leader’ is beyond me. Too many powermad men in the world.

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  2. Noelle Granger's avatar Noelle Granger says:
    May 31, 2014 at 9:59 pm

    Now there is a man with true inner peace. I found the same sense of timeless and peace in the temples in Japan. Gene and I would escape to one of them every day just to be away from the pressure of humanity.

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  3. G. J. Jolly's avatar Glynis Jolly says:
    June 1, 2014 at 2:36 am

    Meditation is a wonderful tool. Some thing you have to be into the Tibet mode to get anything out of it. The other day while my husband was in surgery, I sat in the waiting room in one of their straight-back chairs and went into meditation. I keep me calm and relaxed. When I came out of it, I felt somewhat rested too.

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