{"id":5024,"date":"2021-10-10T00:06:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T07:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newearthcommunity.org\/?page_id=5024"},"modified":"2022-01-02T22:07:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T05:07:30","slug":"a-life-changing-situation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.newearthcommunity.org\/?page_id=5024","title":{"rendered":"HP40: A life &#8211; changing situation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>&nbsp;The Context Of My Brain-injury:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I went through a life-changing situation. In December 1995, I sustained a severe brain injury by falling off a boogie-board in shallow surf at Peregian Beach on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia.&nbsp; Consequently, I was in a&nbsp; coma for four weeks, confined in the hospital for six months, had to learn everything all over again. These things included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Walking, talking, and eating solid food again<\/li><li>Get my brain back together from a very scrambled state and learn to live with &nbsp;a new me<\/li><li>Lost a lot of intuitive ability to discern what other people are saying &#8230;.. although that has largely come back now<\/li><li>I cannot drive twenty-six years (1995-2021) out from my accident &#8230;. but I have learned to drive on the Internet &#8230;. to go around the world in a few minutes and see hundreds of people at the same time<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>At the moment these are my continuing challenges:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My balance is still a bit out at the moment this means:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I cannot ride a bicycle now &#8230;.. Used to ride for kilometres when I had one when I was younger. I would now fall off a bicycle from a lack of balance<\/li><li>I have to be careful in walking up narrow paths<\/li><li>I have to come down backwards still on steep steps at home whilst holding onto the banister<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>My mind has slowed right down. It is hard to take initiative for one&#8217;s life and make clear decisions. The result of this for me is that my wife Harriet now to manages all the finances on a day-to-day basis.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Ken-in-a-Coma-1996-197x300.bmp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8971\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Ken-in-a-Coma-1996.bmp\">\u00ef\u00bb<\/a>Ken in a comatose state\u00a0 December 1995<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day two of my friends, Colin and Julianne had come to see me with their little baby. Even though I was in a coma, I heard them talking. When you are in a coma you can hear people but cannot respond. Colin said to his wife &#8216;<em>Ken will not be doing this in hurry<\/em>&#8216;. Colin put the baby in my arms and I felt it lying there. The photograph  taken by a nurse is of that occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>_______________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before my brain injury for twenty years, I ran a small Landscape Design and Construction Company undertaking very creative, individual designer gardens for wealthy residential clients around Brisbane.&nbsp;&nbsp; I was an artistic person, a lateral thinker&#8230;. more artist than businessman. I thought of a landscape as a three-dimensional piece of space that people walked through. This space changed with time as it grew and changed with the time of day. Shadows vs. sun patterns, boulders, colour, plants, trees, earth-forms, solid structures, and water. These were the ingredients I used. Unknowingly, I was a landscape sculptor. Rather an intangible product to sell and run a business with!! However, I built a financial structure for my life: my marriage, family, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/1-the-house\/\">house<\/a>, and business from this base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See two of my jobs at these Website Posts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Green mount Beach Resort 1980- 2008:<\/strong>  28 years on from when I did the garden in 1980:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/my-past-work\/greenmount-beach-resort-1980-2008\/\"><strong>http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/my-past-work\/greenmount-beach-resort-1980-2008\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sheehan&#8217;s Garden in October 1984 &#8211; 2007: <\/strong>&nbsp;House and Garden in West End, Brisbane,  23 years on from when I did the garden in 1984:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/my-past-work\/sheehan-garden-october-2007\/\"><strong>http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/my-past-work\/sheehan-garden-october-2007\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Sustainable Life:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8216;A life-changing situation<\/strong> &#8230;&#8230; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/The-Recycled-Man-as-at-April-2021.pdf\">The Recycled Man as of April 2021<\/a> <\/strong>&#8230; can be downloaded as a <strong>PDF<\/strong> download. This story outlines how to be a victor through the worst situations in life. I attribute my ongoing recovery primarily to my Christian Spirituality which has brought healing, restoration, and transformation of life purpose. Christian spirituality comes as a consequence of having a Christian World view. It isn&#8217;t another Spirituality in the Post Modern Culture of many spiritualities which are all seen to be equal. It is a unique Spirituality which integrates the whole of life &#8230;..&nbsp; the Inner, Middle and Outer Persons { Spirit, Soul ( = mind, will and emotions) and the Body} It means being a disciple of the Person of Jesus Christ, not a follower of a Church as a Corporation.&nbsp; Christian Spirituality could also be termed a Spirituality from Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I speak about Christianity, I mean Christianity which is focused on the resurrected Jesus Christ. It is also focused on the Holy Spirit who He gave to be His personal representative to each person here on earth. It is a Spirit-filled Christianity and not a ritualized, hierarchical Christianity that has a Corporation view of itself. Harriet (my wife) and I personally share in the life of this &#8216;Spirituality from Jesus Christ&#8217;. It is this life that has sustained us and our family of two children since my severe brain injury twenty-six years ago. It enabled us to go on four-week holidays around the world. See this post:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/Ken and Harriet\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;s Travel post from 2003 to 2017.\">Ken and Harriet&#8217;s Travel post from 2003 to 2017.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A&nbsp; Christian Spirituality is not an abstract belief in some unseen dimension but it is about a living relationship with a Personal Higher Power who is the infinite &#8211; personal God through the Holy Spirit.&nbsp; This is a 24\/7 Vertical Spirituality which then flows out into a Horizontal spirituality to other people with the purpose of aiding others to find a better quality of life and belief system. &nbsp;In your life, it is where you are there for other people as Albert Einstein said long ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I now have three websites all largely free through Word Press and I send out three email broadcasts around the world based on these websites:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>My personal experiences website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/\"><strong>www.kenaitken.net<\/strong><\/a> This website is used to personally stay in touch with hundreds of friends and associates around the world. I frequently send out our personal experiences photos and then links to the website posts with the aim of building people up to stay in touch with hundreds of friends and associates around the world. Not only is it fun to travel but it means seeing new and often spectacular scenery and geography as well as experiencing people in new cultural settings.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>They maybe largely ignorant of you and the way you live and where you even live.&nbsp; Here are some years and countries we have been to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Trip 1:<\/strong>\u00a02003: England,\u00a0<strong>Trip 2<\/strong>: 2005: Italy,\u00a0<strong>Trip 3<\/strong>: 2007: France,\u00a0<strong>Trip 4<\/strong>: 2008: Canada,<\/li><li><strong>Trip 5:<\/strong>\u00a02009: England again,\u00a0<strong>Trip 6:<\/strong>\u00a02010: The South Island of New Zealand,<\/li><li><strong>Trip 7:<\/strong>\u00a02011: China trip,\u00a0<strong>Trip 8:<\/strong>\u00a02012:\u00a0 a two week holiday up in the Kimberleys in Western Australia,<\/li><li><strong>Trip 9:<\/strong>\u00a02013: Scenic Tours: Amsterdam for two days then a river cruise for 14 days from\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amsterdam\">Amsterdam<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li><li>to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Budapest\">Budapest<\/a> <\/strong>on the Rhine river with Scenic Tours.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scenic.com.au\/cruising\/destinations\/europe\">See this website<\/a><\/strong>. We then personally caught<\/li><li>\u00a0a train to Prague (six hours), stayed for two days, and then we flew home via Singapore after 3.5 weeks<\/li><li>of being away. \u00a0We came back on the 29<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0of \u00a0July<\/li><li><strong>Trip 10:<\/strong>\u00a02014: South Africa and Madagascar and now with\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/au.voyagestoantiquity.com\/\">Voyages to Antiquity  Cruises to Ancient Civilisations<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>in May 2015<\/li><li><strong>Trip \u00a011:<\/strong>\u00a02016:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/the-usa-holiday-for-six-weeks-from-1st-october-8th-november-2016\/\"><strong>THE USA HOLIDAY<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for six weeks from 23rd September  8th November<\/li><li><strong>Trip 12:\u00a0<\/strong>2017: Japan for 16 days from the 4 -19th August 2017.<\/li><li><strong>Trip 13:\u00a0<\/strong>2017: <a href=\"https:\/\/au.voyagestoantiquity.com\/\"><strong>Voyages to Antiquity:<\/strong> <strong>Cruises to Ancient Civilisations<\/strong><\/a>in September 2017. We sailed from Lisbon (in Portugal) to Rome over 17 days across the top of the Mediterranean Sea  we saw:<ul><li><strong>SPAIN:<\/strong> Cadiz, Malanga, Valencia, Barcelona<\/li><li><strong>FRANCE:<\/strong> Carcassonne, Marseilles, French Rivera<\/li><li><strong>ITALY:<\/strong> Florence (by bus), Rome, Colosseum etc.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>When the trip finished in Rome, Harriet and I took another week going up by train to\u00a0Lake Como\u00a0then down to\u00a0Milan\u00a0for two days. Then we flew home to Brisbane via a night in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com.au\/Tourism-g295424-Dubai_Emirate_of_Dubai-Vacations.html\">Dubai<\/a>. It was six hours from Milan to Dubai and thirteen hours from Dubai to Brisbane &#8230;&#8230; a long way to travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the way up to&nbsp;Lake Como, we stopped off at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/italy\/umbria-and-le-marche\/assisi\">Assisi<\/a>&nbsp;for two days&nbsp;then&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tripsavvy.com\/verona-italy-guide-1507230?utm_term=verona+italy&amp;utm_content=p1-main-2-title&amp;utm_medium=sem&amp;utm_source=google_s&amp;utm_campaign=adid-d6338a85-514d-48c5-ae02-a3001f614b4b-0-ab_gse_ocode-4348&amp;ad=semD&amp;an=google_s&amp;am=exact&amp;q=verona+italy&amp;o=4348&amp;qsrc=999&amp;l=sem&amp;askid=d6338a85-514d-48c5-ae02-a3001f614b4b-0-ab_gse\">Verona<\/a> for two days then&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.italythisway.com\/places\/bellagio.php\">Bellagio<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/italy\/lombardy-and-the-lakes\/lago-di-como\">Lake Como<\/a> for two days. Then we went down to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/italy\/milan\">Milan<\/a>&nbsp;for two days on our way home. I came back home with about&nbsp;5,250 ++ photos &#8230;&#8230;.. there was so much to see !!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Trip 17<\/strong><\/td><td>2018<\/td><td>September<\/td><td>3 weeks<\/td><td>Albatross tours<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>At the start of September this year\u00a0 (2018), Harriet and I flew via Hong Kong to Zurich in Switzerland to join a tour organised by\u00a0 Albatross tours. We travelled around the Alps which included Chamonix in France for two weeks then drove to Northern Italy and stayed there one week. The posts are:<br><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/hong-kong\/\">Hong Kong<\/a><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/albatross-tours-alpine-tours-schedule\/\">Albatross Tours Alpine Tours Schedule.<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/zurich-in-switzerland-the-old-section1st-2nd-september-2018\/\">Day 1\/2. Zurich in Switzerland &#8230;&#8230; the old section: 1st\/2nd September 2018<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/3-chamonix-2nd-3rd-september-2018\/\">Day 3. CHAMONIX 2nd &#8230;&#8230;. 3rd September 2018<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/mageve-4th-september-2018\/\">Day 4a. An Alpine Adventure: Mageve &#8230;. 4th September 2018<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/annecy-4th-september-2018\/\">Day 4b. An Alpine Adventure: Annecy &#8230;.. 5th September 2018<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/chillon-castle\/\">Day 5. An Alpine Adventure: Chillon Castle &#8230;.. 6th September 2018<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/gruyers-the-medieval-town\/\">Day 6. An Alpine Adventure: Gruyers &#8230;.. the medieval town<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/gruyers-the-medieval-town\/\">Day 6a. An Alpine Adventure: Bus to Grindelwald &#8230;. a cozy Swiss ski town<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/grindelwald-a-cozy-swiss-ski-town\/\">Day 6b. An Alpine Adventure: Hotel Grindelwalderhof &#8230;.. where we stayed for two days: 6th-7th September 2018<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/grindelwald-a-cozy-swiss-ski-town\/\">6c. An Alpine Adventure: Grindelwald &#8230;. a cozy Swiss ski town<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/grindelwald-the-cable-car-ride\/\">Day 6d. An Alpine Adventure: Grindelwald &#8230;. the Cable Car Ride<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/bus-to-bern-a-city-in-switzerland\/\">Day 7a. An Alpine Adventure: Bus to Bern &#8230;&#8230;. A City in Switzerland &#8230;. 8th September 2018<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/bern-a-city-in-switzerland\/\">Day 7b. An Alpine Adventure: Bern \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.. The Capital City of Switzerland <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/bus-to-bern-a-city-in-switzerland\/\">&#8230;. 8th September 2018<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/the-impressive-trummelbach-falls-near-lauterbrunnen\/\">Day 8. An Alpine Adventure: The Impressive Trammelbach Falls near Lauterbrunnen <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/bus-to-bern-a-city-in-switzerland\/\">&#8230;.9th September 2018<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/zermatt\/\">Day 9. An Alpine Adventure: Zermatt &#8230;. 9-10th September <\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/glacier-express-10-11th-september-2018\/\">Day 10. An Alpine Adventure: Glacier Express &#8230; 10 &#8211; 11th September 2018<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/chur-swizterlands-oldest-city-started-in-3000-bc\/\"><strong>Day 10a. An Alpine Adventure: Chur &#8230;&#8230; Switzerland&#8217;s Oldest City. Started in 3,000 BC.    <\/strong><\/a><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/busd-to-klosters-10-11th-september-2018\/\">Day 10b. An Alpine Adventure: Bus to Klosters &#8230;. 10 &#8211; 11th September 2018<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/klosters-alpina-hotel-10th-11th-september-2018\/\">Day 11. An Alpine Adventure: Klosters Alpina Hotel = 10th -11th September 2018<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/klosters-museum-11th-september-2018-c2\/\">Day 11a. An Alpine Adventure: Klosters Museum = 11th September 2018<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/cable-car-at-klosters\/\">Day 11b. An Alpine Adventure: Cable Car at Klosters<\/a><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/hotel-caesius-thermae-and-spa-resort\/\">Day 12. An Alpine Adventure: Hotel Caesius Thermae and Spa Resort<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/coffee-at-bolzano\/\">Day 12. An Alpine Adventure: Coffee at Bolzano<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/the-fort\/\">Day 13. An Alpine Adventure: &#8230;. The Fort from 1277 A.D. &#8230;. 14th September 2018<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=16098&amp;action=edit\">Day 13a. An Alpine Adventure: Coffee at Garda on Lake Garda 13-14th September 2018<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/day-14-an-alpine-adventure-verona-in-upper-italy-15th-september-2018\/\"><strong>Day 14. An Alpine Adventure: Verona in Upper Italy  &#8230;.. 15th September 2018<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/2017-mediterranean-sea-and-italy\/verona-20th-21st-september-2017-general-pottering-from-our-hotel-market-square\/\"><strong> <\/strong><\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/2017-mediterranean-sea-and-italy\/verona-20th-21st-september-2017-general-pottering-from-our-hotel-market-square\/\"><strong>Day 14a. An Alpine Adventure: Verona in Upper Italy &#8230;.<\/strong><\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/day-14a-an-alpine-adventure-verona-in-upper-italy-15th-september-2018\/\"><strong>Day 14a. An Alpine Adventure: Verona in Upper Italy. General Pottering from our Hotel. Market Square. 20th &#8211; 21st September 2017<\/strong><\/a><br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/3-our-travels-around-the-world-2\/an-alpine-adventure-september-2018\/coffee-at-garda-on-lake-garda-13-14th-september-2018-2\/\"><strong>Day 14b. An Alpine Adventure: Coffee at Garda on Lake Garda 13-14th September 2018<\/strong><\/a><br><u><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=15873&amp;action=edit\">Day 15a. <\/a><\/strong><\/u><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=15873&amp;action=edit\">An Alpine Adventure: 15th September 2018. Sirmione on Lake Garda<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=18097&amp;action=edit\">Day 15b. An Alpine Adventure: The Farm Winery Redaelli De Zinis Valtenesi in Lake Garda. 16th September 2018<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=14412&amp;action=edit\">Day 16. An Alpine Adventure: Sforzesco Castle<\/a><\/u><\/strong><br><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=14760&amp;action=edit\">Day 17. An Alpine Adventure: Milan<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"2\"><li><strong>New Earth&nbsp; Community:<\/strong> This is a global Christian Cyberspace Community<strong>:<\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newearthcommunity.org\/?page_id=372\">See this website.<\/a> <\/strong>This community is meant to bring a new sense of belonging with the real discovery or affirmation of identity through the Sustainable Life which comes from Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"3\"><li><strong>The Brain Injury Community:&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/braininjurycommunity.wordpress.com\/\">https:\/\/braininjurycommunity.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/strong> This is a global Brain Injury Cyberspace&nbsp; Community of many hundreds of people.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>This Community is focused on Beyond Being a Brain Injury Survivor into Being a Brain Injury Thriver. This is in contrast to the motto, Victim, Survivor, Over Achiever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This community has ceased as of early 2021 as I wasn&#8217;t getting sufficient interaction .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Activities:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&nbsp; am glad I have had a brain-injury &#8230;.. it has brought so many good things into my life over twenty-five years (to 2021).&nbsp; I am so excited by life &#8230;. Life is <strong>AWESOME !!<\/strong>&nbsp; &#8230;.. life can hardly keep up with me. I wake up at 4.30 am.&nbsp; every morning, excited to get into the day.&nbsp; These are some of the things I do:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Overall: <\/strong>Because I have a&nbsp; lifelong Income Protection which CPI indexed for life, I do not ever have to go work again &#8230;.. the money just comes into our account every month for life &#8230;. CPI indexed. The money is far better than a Government pension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Inside the House:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I spend my time in the morning writing on my computer &#8230;. I have become a writer and photographer &#8230;.\u00a0 I just love doing these\u00a0two things<\/li><li>I spend time every morning from 4.30 am. to 6.00 am. reading and meditating\u00a0 on the Bible &#8230;. the Christian Scriptures seeing I have a Christian Spirituality<\/li><li>Because I have three websites, there is\u00a0a lot of reviewing, rewriting,\u00a0 and writing new material<\/li><li>We have been going overseas every year since 2003 &#8230;..\u00a0 I can come back with several thousand\u00a0 photographs which need to be downloaded and\u00a0 sorted into named folders. This process of going overseas every two years has ceased  with the advice of my cardiologist. I have two stents in the arteries to my heart. My cardiologist says if I have another heart attack, there may not be a cardiologist who could be called on.<\/li><li>The several thousand\u00a0 photographs I comeback with, can then be carefully selected and incorporated into posts on my <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\">Personal Experiences\u00a0 Website<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li>My personal experiences website is used to personally stay in touch with hundreds of friends and associates around the world. I frequently send out our personal experiences photos and then\u00a0\u00a0links to the website posts<\/li><li>Weekly I forward on wonderful email broadcasts I receive from other people around the world.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Outside the House:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I try to have a balance of practical work outside<\/li><li>We use a big compost heap down the back for the gardens and any planted pots. We have three lidded\u00a0 compost buckets outside\u00a0 (A small one inside the kitchen at any given time)\u00a0 which need to taken\u00a0 to the\u00a0 compost heap in a wheelbarrow every week<\/li><li>We also have a big paper and cardboard bin under the sink which is also sorted outside in a wheelbarrow every week. Bore water is added to this paper to aid decomposition. This is also added to the compost heap. It helps make excellent compost<\/li><li>I always spend quite a bit of\u00a0 time out in the garden or on our land of five acres<\/li><li>We have 11 garden rooms around our house so there always\u00a0 a lot\u00a0 of monitoring\u00a0 and\u00a0 maintenance work on the different garden rooms<\/li><li>We have dug out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/2-whole-garden\/dipping-pool-april-2016\/\"><strong>Dipping Pool<\/strong><\/a> which is deep enough to cool off in summer. Old planed demolition timber paving has been laid around this new pool by my son Anthony and I along with many square metres of old brick paving to join the existing brick path. See our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/2-whole-garden\/post-7-permaculture-garden-room\/\"><strong>Permaculture Garden Room<\/strong>.<\/a><\/li><li>There is a\u00a0 lot of new building (raised garden beds) and growing new things in our\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/2-whole-garden\/post-7-permaculture-garden-room\/\"><strong>Permaculture Garden Room<\/strong><\/a><\/li><li>My son Anthony\u00a0 has\u00a0 built these raised garden beds and I have added the soil and compost and planted the plants\u00a0 as featured in this post<\/li><li>He is currently building in May 2016 another big raised bed for our herb plantings<\/li><li>Another thing I have been involved with as an observant is with my son Anthony. He has become very focused on tree houses and has a big tree down the back of our bush block land where he is has built his treehouse. He has formed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/treehousesaustralasia\/\"><strong>Treehouse Club<\/strong> <\/a>on Facebook.\u00a0 He has about 347\u00a0 members already from around the world. \u00a0See the first photo to see his completed tree house and the next few ones on showing the building process.<\/li><li>See the PDF file which has many\u00a0 photos and explanatory words here:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/ANTHONY-OUR-SON-BUILDING-HIS-TREE-HOUSE-ON-OUR-LAND-.....-for-PEW.pdf\"><strong> ANTHONY, OUR SON, BUILDING HIS TREEHOUSE ON OUR LAND<\/strong><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>People<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>People are very important to Harriet &amp;\u00a0 I. See the photographs at the bottom of\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenaitken.net\/2-whole-garden\/post-1-the-outside-amphitheatre-garden-room\/\"><strong>Post 1: The Outside Amphitheatre Garden Room\u00a0<\/strong><\/a> of our Amphitheatre in use at night with a large group of people<\/li><li>We are heavily involved in a nearby Christian church at Rochedale which is a Community Church rather than being a Corporation Church. We have a wonderful sense\u00a0 of community there with different people<\/li><li>People are always being invited over for coffee\u00a0or a meal<\/li><li>In the last few\u00a0 months we meet every two weeks with three other Christian couples at night\u00a0 for a meal and afterward a time of communal sharing and building in Biblical edification (building up our Christian Spirituality) &#8230; see what I have written on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newearthcommunity.org\/?page_id=1502\"><strong>New Earth Community Post about Jesus Christ and community vs. organisation<\/strong><\/a><\/li><li>Harriet (now she has retired) and I are closely involved with two Brain Injury survivor groups meeting at Browns Plains and\u00a0 Logan Village.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;The Context Of My Brain-injury: I went through a life-changing situation. 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