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MY PERFECT MAN

My Man in Melbourne

Som Chai meets my family & friends

I am so excited that Som Chai is now in Oz and has been granted a partner visa.

He's met my family and friends, and even come along to Uni with me.

It is wonderful having him here with me - no more lonely nights or awkward outings on my own!

I can throw my wish list in the fire now because he fulfils all my dreams. I am so proud of him - he is charismatic, generous and kind, and he is also Budhist and a meditator!

An Ode to a Human Painting Machine

I wondered whether there was a difference between art made by a human and art made by a machine? So I made a fan that painted, and I became a painting human fan.
Conclusion: there was no difference.

Ketubot/Marriage Contracts

Just an Ordinary Peasant is based on my uncle’s experience as an inmate at Treblinka extermination camp in 1944. His memoir recounts that while being forced to carry corpses from the gas chambers to an open-air pyre, he was handed a sack which held little children who were still alive. The guard commanded the sack be thrown into the fire. The woman I play in Just an Ordinary Peasant is a hybrid character created from the memoirs of my uncle, my parents and my own research. She sings and dances and also throws a sack of babies into the fire. This piece explores my own biases as well as questions the culpability of ‘ordinary people’ who were accomplices to the atrocities carried out during the Third Reich.

An Ode to a Human Painting Machine

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She Ain't Heavy, She's My Mother

Mum decided to move into my home in 2017, a year after Dad passed away. She was in her early 90s with the first signs of dementia. Instead of feeling burdened, I saw this move as a gift — an opportunity to care for her and share these years together.

These posts capture that precious time: mum living in my ‘share home’ with family members, housemates and guests, supported, appreciated and surrounded by love. The stories also offer a glimpse into the daily joys and challenges of caring for a loved one.

'All about Marysia' also includes stories from her earlier life -- pre-war, the war, and post war years.

Today mum is over a century old.

YOU eat!

YOU eat!

YOU eat!

18.10.22 It’s daylight saving and mum and I are sitting outside. Mum’s dinner has just been served and we’re fighting over the food. I’m...

Jane

Oct 18, 20222 min read

Home for Shabbat Lunch

Home for Shabbat Lunch

Home for Shabbat Lunch

August 2022 Mum’s agitated to say the least. I’ve climbed into her bed to keep an eye on her. She’s so restless, it’s the fourth or fifth...

Jane

Oct 3, 20222 min read

Full of the best things ever

Full of the best things ever

Full of the best things ever

7.3.22 I always send photos and videos of mum to my family in Israel. Yesterday Alma, my eight year old granddaughter, commented to her...

Jane

Oct 2, 20221 min read

Nap time in Ashwood

Nap time in Ashwood

Nap time in Ashwood

What a pleasure it is to nap with a friend in the winter afternoon sun filtering through the window, Marysia and Som Chai (Jane's life...

Jane

Sep 16, 20221 min read

Heart-me, head-me, and the me in-between.

Heart-me, head-me, and the me in-between.

Heart-me, head-me, and the me in-between.

27.2.22 It’s heart wrenching separating from mum. There are two me’s: the heart-me and the head-me. The heart-me aches to leave her...

Jane

Sep 12, 20223 min read

Mission Accomplished

Mission Accomplished

Mission Accomplished

14.7.22 I visit mum at the facility most days and often stay for long chunks of time. It’s the perfect place to hang out, almost like my...

Jane

Jul 15, 20224 min read

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