On a day like this

It’s the second day of spring and here, in Melbourne, it is a magically sunny day. There is a cloudless sky, sun, a tinge of warmth and just the tiniest hint of spring in the air. There is blossom on the tree outside my bedroom window. It’s time…to start writing this blog…the blog I dreamt of back in October. After my second miscarriage, my dreams were often vivid, crazy even. I like to think it was my dreams that helped me process the tumult of emotions and thoughts that often plagued my waking hours during those troubled months. One morning back then, I woke and I had dreamt that I had a blog titled “Segovia”. With my geography lacking, I didn’t even know Segovia is a city in Spain so I remain uncertain how the word even made its way into my subconscious. But that was October. And now it is September and it’s time. I think I was waiting for “the perfect moment” to start writing this blog, “the perfect first post” to kick things off. But today I realised that it has to be now, there is no such thing as the perfect post and life is too short to wait.


This morning I checked on the many blogs I read. One blog in particular has been occupying my thoughts for weeks. Many in the online world were waiting for the happy news of Mirne and Craig’s son arriving into the world. Sadly, Mirne’s post informed of his birth and his death, at only 3 days old. Mirne and Craig have already suffered the loss of 2 babes (Freyja and Kees), so the loss of their precious Jet is their third loss and a tragedy beyond words, beyond grief, beyond comprehension. I don’t know these two beautiful parents personally, I have only followed their blog from afar, but today I feel their pain intensely and I have cried lots of tears for them and for their three angel children, Freyja, Kees and Jethro. Please visit their blog and send them whatever love and support you can.


This news has somehow compelled me to act, to communicate, to reach out. Like I said, today I realised there is no such thing as the perfect moment and life is often way too short to wait around. The time is now.