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Christadelphian Aged Care S U M M E R N E W S L E T T E R
MARANATHA Address: 1582 Anzac Avenue, Kallangur QLD 4503
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Phone: (07) 3482 5333
Email: admin@chomes.com.au
Manager’s Message
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Welcome to Maranatha It is hard to believe that 2015 is almost at a close! Like barely controlled juggernauts, the years hurtle past in a blur of activities, events, emotions, disasters and discoveries. At Maranatha we have discovered that it is possible to survive protracted renovations and even be happy with the resulting improvements! We have learned that ‘builder speak’ is a language all its own. One that does not share well established concepts of time that are common to other western European languages. In ‘builder speak’, “a few days” has a very flexible interpretation; it could be anything… a week, a month, a year… even never! Pondering the difficulties of mastering builder speak leads me to think that time is a peculiar concept. Each of us experiences it differently. When we are small children time seems to crawl by. It can be an eternity between those monumental occasions; birthdays, Christmas or holidays. As a small child, I clearly remember thinking with some frustration and anxiety, “When will I EVER be six ?!!”. Now of course I find myself thinking (with even more frustration and anxiety) “Oh no!! Not another birthday… surely my last birthday was only a month or two ago?!” Time certainly speeds up as we age. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your age and viewpoint) we have devised clocks, calendars, dates and diaries to track time for us. Time is such a subjective commodity that without an objective framework our complex and complicated world could not function. In some societies (Vanuatu for example) the experience of time remains largely the property of the individual. It has a fluid and flexible quality which has been all but lost in our constrained society. Pandemonium ensues when the time structured Western world clashes with this far more relaxed and unrestricted view point. The results are usually totally perplexing to both parties!