Retired but not Retiring
@verdar.bsky.social
Championing ageing as a positive life stage. No botox, no lifts or tucks. No anything for the 'over 50's' (or 60’s or 70’s come to that). No ceiling - glass or otherwise. Just living it as it is and loving it.
West is best. So many sunsets
October 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
West is best. So many sunsets
Ann Patchett asks you not to read her books. 😆
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September 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Ann Patchett asks you not to read her books. 😆
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On Ditching ‘The Pitch’
For Female Writers 60s-Plus
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September 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Clearly of interest to me. You too? open.substack.com/pub/kisanesl...
This, as I walk my way into old age 😉 Recommended for everyone, not only aspiring teachers.
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Somatic Walking Teacher Training
Learn how to walk the way you love, and love the way you walk. And how to teach this groundbreaking somatic approach to your students!
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September 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
This, as I walk my way into old age 😉 Recommended for everyone, not only aspiring teachers.
www.movingness.com/somatic-walk...
www.movingness.com/somatic-walk...
No woman is safe from the male gaze: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/w...
A Glow-Up Gone Awry
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August 22, 2025 at 7:15 AM
No woman is safe from the male gaze: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/w...
Calling all authors, please read and comment - www.theargus.co.uk/news/2504849...
AI development which threatens writers' copyright - By Graham Bartlett
The US current affairs magazine, The Atlantic, has had quite a week. You’ll have heard that their editor in chief was erroneously added to a group…
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March 31, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Calling all authors, please read and comment - www.theargus.co.uk/news/2504849...
My last week, and living on the beach again. The tail end of Cyclone Alfred is a bummer.
March 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
My last week, and living on the beach again. The tail end of Cyclone Alfred is a bummer.
From the worst of humanity to the best in 24 hours: Sydney’s Gay Pride Mardis Gras
March 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
From the worst of humanity to the best in 24 hours: Sydney’s Gay Pride Mardis Gras
Still with the sea as my muse and while waiting for my first-ever beta-reader feedback on my first ever novel, I’m doing something I never dreamed of - plotting the second. Dreaming big. The best is yet to come.
February 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Still with the sea as my muse and while waiting for my first-ever beta-reader feedback on my first ever novel, I’m doing something I never dreamed of - plotting the second. Dreaming big. The best is yet to come.
I’m reflecting on my good fortune to have been born when I was and to live my life extravagantly and with such freedom of choice. And yet now to have to wonder what activism will be required of women to maintain these rights in the face of the US regime change that would seek to engulf Europe too.
February 17, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I’m reflecting on my good fortune to have been born when I was and to live my life extravagantly and with such freedom of choice. And yet now to have to wonder what activism will be required of women to maintain these rights in the face of the US regime change that would seek to engulf Europe too.
On the website of the Rubin Observatory, the US administration has altered the text referring to its eponymous luminary to remove all references to the advancement of women in science. Are there those who still think it an exaggeration to refer to Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale as prophetic?
February 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
On the website of the Rubin Observatory, the US administration has altered the text referring to its eponymous luminary to remove all references to the advancement of women in science. Are there those who still think it an exaggeration to refer to Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale as prophetic?
Open to interpretation, a lakeside sculpture at Warners Bay, Lake Macquarie. Lost in thought?
February 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Open to interpretation, a lakeside sculpture at Warners Bay, Lake Macquarie. Lost in thought?
Sad to leave my amazing room with a view but happy that the sea has been a wonderful source of inspiration. Procrastination be gone. I have a full and coherent draft of my novel at last.
February 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Sad to leave my amazing room with a view but happy that the sea has been a wonderful source of inspiration. Procrastination be gone. I have a full and coherent draft of my novel at last.
I’ve spent a wonderful month taking the slow road from Newcastle, UK, to Newcastle, NSW, two cities whose fortunes were built on coal, NSW still exporting as much as 143 million tonnes of the stuff in 2023. It’s also a city of beaches, my preferred territory 🤭 Fabulous - the view from my balcony.
February 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I’ve spent a wonderful month taking the slow road from Newcastle, UK, to Newcastle, NSW, two cities whose fortunes were built on coal, NSW still exporting as much as 143 million tonnes of the stuff in 2023. It’s also a city of beaches, my preferred territory 🤭 Fabulous - the view from my balcony.
One calendar month into my trip and the end is not even in sight 😄 East coast tomorrow 🇦🇺❤️
January 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
One calendar month into my trip and the end is not even in sight 😄 East coast tomorrow 🇦🇺❤️
Little did I think I would re-read my favourite book of all time in the very place that is its focus. Posted in the Asylum Café, Port Arthur, Tasmania. A ‘must read’ anywhere.
January 29, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Little did I think I would re-read my favourite book of all time in the very place that is its focus. Posted in the Asylum Café, Port Arthur, Tasmania. A ‘must read’ anywhere.
I’ve not known the luxury of long-term travel before and my relaxation response has kicked in now. Not looking for glasses, phone, and keys several times a day has reduced my blood pressure significantly. When you travel light, if you can’t find something, it’s because you’re sitting on it. 😎
January 27, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I’ve not known the luxury of long-term travel before and my relaxation response has kicked in now. Not looking for glasses, phone, and keys several times a day has reduced my blood pressure significantly. When you travel light, if you can’t find something, it’s because you’re sitting on it. 😎
I am in the apartment I have dreamed of for ever with this view of the Southern Ocean. Swam today. Went the same colour as the sea. I’m really better off on the balcony with my book.
January 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
I am in the apartment I have dreamed of for ever with this view of the Southern Ocean. Swam today. Went the same colour as the sea. I’m really better off on the balcony with my book.
I like it that I’m expected to be responsible for myself here in WA. It’s survival of the fittest.
January 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
I like it that I’m expected to be responsible for myself here in WA. It’s survival of the fittest.
I’ve never really understood the point of personal car plates but this one is at least useful.
January 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
I’ve never really understood the point of personal car plates but this one is at least useful.
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver’s question becomes ever more powerful. It hints at urgency. It demands focus. And I ask myself: Do I treat life as precious? Do I feel? Am I truly present? Tomorrow is never promised and, as we know, never comes.
January 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” Mary Oliver’s question becomes ever more powerful. It hints at urgency. It demands focus. And I ask myself: Do I treat life as precious? Do I feel? Am I truly present? Tomorrow is never promised and, as we know, never comes.
Even a hot, arid landscape supports life - though here there is water nearby. Pictures taken from the sofa.
January 3, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Even a hot, arid landscape supports life - though here there is water nearby. Pictures taken from the sofa.