Silent Sunday: Regeneration

Posted on September 13, 2015 by Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist

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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8 Responses to Silent Sunday: Regeneration

M-R says:

September 13, 2015 at 7:59 am

Good morning, lamb ! – I don’t remember reading or hearing about your area getting burned …!

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- Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist says:
  
  September 13, 2015 at 8:13 am
  
  Apart from controlled burns you are quite right M-R. I am really getting to the bottom of the box now. This was on the Central Coast in the late eighties but I thought with all the fires in the States it would be a good one to put in to show how quickly it comes back. But perhaps our vegetation is more conditioned to fire. I don’t know.
  
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  - M-R says:
    
    September 13, 2015 at 8:28 am
    
    Well, after all, it’s supposed to NEED fire, eh ?
    
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  - Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist says:
    
    September 13, 2015 at 9:54 pm
    
    True.
    
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Sharon Bonin-Pratt says:

September 13, 2015 at 8:03 am

Much depth revealed in this photo. The burnt limbs, those like polished bone and bleeding twigs, and then the green down of new growth – an entire cycle of death and rebirth. Such promise.

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- Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist says:
  
  September 13, 2015 at 8:09 am
  
  Absolutely. It shows there is always hope.
  
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Charli Mills says:

September 14, 2015 at 3:54 am

There is hope in regeneration. Many of our conifers in Idaho actually need fire in order for their seeds to regenerate, so I’m looking forward to that green one day overcoming all the charred spaces.

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- Irene Waters 19 Writer Memoirist says:
  
  September 14, 2015 at 8:53 am
  
  Then you’ll be seeing the same before too long.
  
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