Breathe in

A different morning today, waiting with my mum at the hospital while my dad has surgery. Lots of expected big feelings and fear, but also gratitude that I live in a country where health care is affordable and good. A short walk through the park on hospital grounds, with an old cemetery (old for this colonised land), and wondering at the lives that ended in 1886, 1889, 1900, while magpies play and fight with noisy miners in huge twisty tree tops, shedding their winter skins