Monday, 18 August 2014
Small Steps
Posted on 23:30 by Cassie Cameron
So here I am, nearly seven months on from my last post, and I cannot decide whether time has moved fast or slow. In one sense, I am exactly where I was in the wake of this strange year, yet in a literal sense, I am somewhere far away - and somewhere I never would have thought I'd be.
A good friend of mine passed on some very pertinent advice to me recently. I have always been one to find the deepest of meanings within the simplest of phrases, but the relevance of these words to the situation in which I have found myself gave me a little more comfort...
Saturday, 25 January 2014
Thank You
Posted on 02:36 by Cassie Cameron
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
- Anne Frank
There are many parts of me that are strong. I've proven to have a lot of will when I've needed it, presumably because there have been times in my life when I have had no choice but to be strong. But there are some parts of me that are not; some parts that are somewhat fragile. And I guess that's all part of being human. We can fight out way through the roughest of storms without an ounce of self-doubt, and yet fall to our knees at something so small, so insignificant...
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Wednesday, 11 December 2013
The Silver Lining
Posted on 23:59 by Cassie Cameron

Optimism is a
difficult notion to convoke in the midst of adversity, and even more difficult
to maintain, when there is little more than a glimmer of light trickling
through the faraway exit of the dark, dreary tunnel that is your world. Time is
just as capable of harm as it is healing, when days turn to weeks, and all you
can do is sit, wait, and watch your progress dwindle away with the minutes. And
for six weeks, that is what I did.
After...
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Saturday, 20 July 2013
Ups and Downs
Posted on 18:16 by Cassie Cameron

I could lie and say that - very much like my dining experiences here in the land of supersized portions - my plate has been piled a foot high with all sorts of American adventures, and has left little room for my otherwise frequent blog updates. But the simple truth is, I have been slack.
In fact, I have been left with a lot more time to play with than I would have liked, due to a few unexpected, and unwelcome, hurdles along my way. Only two weeks...
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Friday, 7 June 2013
Living the American Dream
Posted on 20:20 by Cassie Cameron

I like to live by the philosophy that things will always fall into place. Whether this is a genuine belief, or simply my way of justifying my organisation deficiency, I am unsure. Whatever the case, my first few days in Kutztown, USA have reinforced it.
We arrived in our new hometown after a somewhat flurried few days of travel; it's never easy when you have your weight in luggage to drag along with you wherever you go. This included an overnight...
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Sunday, 5 May 2013
24
Posted on 19:13 by Cassie Cameron

Twenty hours spent doing one thing, irrespective of how enjoyable it would usually be, will in most cases become somewhat tedious toward the end. Even twenty hours of sunbathing on the coast of Tahiti would have a certain degree of monotony once the halfway mark was reached. So when I suggested twenty hours of solid bike riding as a fundraising idea for our U.S. campaign, I struggle to understand why we were so enthusiastic about it.
We had no doubt...
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Friday, 12 April 2013
They Come In Threes
Posted on 01:27 by Cassie Cameron
It was with an unsettling familiarity that I was thrown to the
road in a brutal stack up after only seven kilometres of the Te Awamutu Tour on
Saturday morning, and as I lay there with shredded hands and loose shards of
stone embedded in the side of my head, I was hardly surprised at this
continuation of misfortune. It was defeating at first, having to pull myself
off the road to see the battered condition of my body, a broken bike and even
more fluro paint scraped from the ends of my prized Sidi Wires.
But in my adrenaline-fuelled state,...
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