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“I was born in the Kingscote hospital in 1957. It was great growing up here. I grew up right opposite the school bus bay on Addison street and I wouldn’t go to school until I heard the first bell ring. After school, I’d walk in the door, pick up a sandwich, glass of water andContinue reading “Haydon”

“I’ve had lots of happy moments in my life. I was the happiest when I married Ivan and I was free of responsibilities. We were living in Whyalla for a time, we had nothing, but that didn’t matter. Possessions are not happiness. Ivan had consented to come over to Kangaroo Island as a home missionary.Continue reading “Joy”

“I came to Australia to study at the Australian National University and finish a graduate diploma in archaeology in 1998. When I went back to Texas, I was hired as a transportation mapper and town planner. I did not meet Sarah until my going-away party to go back to Australia to do my master’s degree. I justContinue reading “Boone”

“My Dad Chris was always the clown in the family. He was known—amongst many other things—as a larrikin. He had this wonderful talent to always turn something negative into something that was fun—and not just funny, but hysterical. He had a great sense of humour that would let you see something from a different perspective,Continue reading “Louise”

“Not being able to help people enough scares me. Not being able to get the things to help people, because that’s what I live for. It has kind of already happened during Covid; we have kind of been there. The lack of supply, lack of support to help enough, not being able to do whatContinue reading “Catherine”

“I grew up in Canberra.  I was an economist there for twenty years in the Treasury, grew sick and tired of that, had a complete life change and then became a herbalist and Tai Chi teacher, which I loved. I really enjoyed talking to people, one on one, trying to understand them and their lifeContinue reading “Peter”

“I believe that our life path is already set, regardless. We are presented with choices and might or might not make the ‘right choice’ at the time, but whatever choice we make, we always come back to our life path—whichever way it meanders. I am not young, I am 61. I look back at theContinue reading “Bea”

“Being bedridden for 20 hours a day is pretty tough going. It’s just the hardest way to live that I have ever experienced. Mentally I am relatively sound now, but physically I have never been worse. Whatever you go through physically in your life, you just don’t panic too much because you know you’ll comeContinue reading “Steven”

“I grew up in London in England. I’ve had a great life. I grew up after the war, my dad was in the D day landings in France. The whole war thing was really hard on him and affected him for the rest of his life. We had a great family, they looked after us,Continue reading “Anne”

“I decided to go hiking Tongariro in New Zealand and it was the first time I travelled solo. It was like a whole mountain already just getting to New Zealand on my own. I wasn’t really prepared to go and do a 24-kilometre hike and I honestly didn’t think I could do it. It wasContinue reading “Kylie”