Tell us about times in which you linger — when you don’t want an event, or a day to end. What is it you love about these times? Why do you wish you could linger forever?

For me lingering is not about not wanting an experience to end, but reflecting on its significance to mine or someone else’s life. Traveling to different countries and cultures has given me many moments to linger and reflect on to gain understanding and insight into what life must have been like during that time in history.

My first experience of really lingering in a place was when my house was packed into removalist boxes, ready for transport next day to Sydney, prior to my marriage 25 years ago. I suddenly realised my old life was in those boxes and my new scary, exciting and mysterious life was awaiting me. I sat quietly in the dark surrounded by my mountains of boxes reflecting on my life until I gathered the momentum to close the door behind me and move forward with my life. During reflection I consider some or all of the following:

Remembering the significance

Experiencing the emotions

Frozen in time

Lingering in the moment

End of an era

Choosing a new direction

Trust

Invoking insight and inspiration

Open mindedness

New horizons

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Last Monday 13th April 2105 saw Surfers Paradise’s Metermaids turn 50. They were introduced to combat a bad image brought to the tourist strip of Surfers Paradise after the introduction of parking meters in December 1964. The original metermaids wearing a gold lame bikini and tiara walked the strip placing coins in nearly expired parking meters to encourage people to return to the area and bring goodwill.

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These bikini clad beauties quickly became an Australian icon—promoting tourism in Surfers Paradise nationally and internationally. Over the decades the metermaids role has changed as well as their uniform. Today they still walk the strip taking photos with tourist and promoting the area in other ways although today their uniform is a gold lycra bikini completed by another Aussie icon—the Akubra hat.

Photo Credit: Getty Images

Photo Credit: Google

Photo Credit: Google

Photo Credit: Google

 Happy Birthday Metermaids—may you live to be a 100.

Create a new word and explain its meaning and etymology.

Words play a major role in our life and at times, we create them to suit ourselves.Initially I thought this prompt would be easy as it appears that I am often making up words as regularly I hear some one repeat the word I have just stated and ask “what is that?” Until that moment I hadn’t even released I had made the word up. Now as I go to share these words with you—they have escaped me.

When I asked my husband he agreed there were plenty but none were good enough to become common words in our world. One word we have substituted for the real one and I cannot remember its origins is Kangarwalla fox. I think it may have come from the kids when they were young and we were living in the country to describe both Kangaroos and Wallabys as they could tell the difference.

Its an interesting point and I will begin to take more notice of the things I say and maybe develop a dictionary for myself.

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