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Unveiling Equality: Celebrating the Harmony of Masculine and Feminine Energies
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So many Coups
15,208 views Aug 26, 2023 If You’re Listening | ABC News In-depthWhile everyone has their eyes on the war in Ukraine, there’s been a seemingly unstoppable wave of coups in West Africa, washing along the edge of the Sahara and gaining strength each time. Subscribe: https://ab.co/3yqPOZ5 After the recent military coup in Niger, locals were seen chanting “Down with France” and “Long live Putin”. Even the now former leader of Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin has been involved. What are France and Russia doing in West Africa? And could they end up in a proxy war? ABC News In-depth takes you deeper on the big stories, with long-form journalism from Four Corners, Foreign Correspondent, Australian Story, Planet America and more, and explainers from ABC News Video Lab. Watch more ABC News content ad-free on ABC iview: https://ab.co/2OB7Mk1 For more from ABC News, click here: https://ab.co/2kxYCZY Get breaking news and livestreams from our ABC News channel: / newsonabc Like ABC News on Facebook: http://facebook.com/abcnews.au Follow ABC News on Instagram: http://instagram.com/abcnews_au Follow ABC News on Twitter: http://twitter.com/abcnews Note: In most cases, our captions are auto-generated. #ABCNewsIndepth#ABCNewsAustralia
Memories
Memories
Leni Riefenstahl
Trudy Smith had always dreamed of being a painter, but she did not pick up a paintbrush until she was 85.
/ By Kate Stephens and Stan Shaw
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Trudy Smith had always dreamed of being a painter, but she did not pick up a paintbrush until she was 85.
Now 102, Ms Smith said it was a mixture of loneliness and newfound freedom that gave her the courage to start pursuing her passion following her husband’s death.
“The one thing I wanted to do was to paint,” she said.
“I never did very much before that because he [husband] was very critical.
“It has taken quite a while but suddenly I have realised that it is lovely to be free of everything.
“You can say what you like, you can do what you like and you can think what you like.”
Into the light
Some of Ms Smith’s latest work, ranging from colourful abstract art to landscape pieces, will feature in an exhibition at her local seniors community centre in Eaton, in Western Australia’s south-west.
She said organising the exhibition had been a lot of work, but she is not looking forward to the attention.
“I’m not very happy about meeting people and talking about my own things at all,” Ms Smith said.
All her paintings are organic with very little planning involved.
“I know some artists are very frightened of a blank canvas,” she said.
“When I see a blank canvas I just love it, and I can sit and look at it and the picture comes to me from the canvas.”
Embracing your inner weed
Trudy Smith had always wanted to be a painter, but it was not the life her father, a doctor, encouraged.
“I was sort of a misfit,” she said.
She saw herself as the weed growing in the middle of her family, a position she encouraged other black sheep to embrace.
“Be a weed — then you belong to everywhere or anywhere,” she said.
Say ‘yes’ to life
Ms Smith spends most of her time painting in her studio at the back of her house.
She is often asked how she keeps fit and healthy at her age but she said there is really no secret to it.
Instead, her advice is to just give anything a go, like painting in your senior years.
“Sometimes in life you think shall I do something, shall I move, shall I get married, should I have another child,” she said.
“Always when I have had that feeling of ‘shall I?’ The answer is ‘yes.'”
Posted 1 May 20181 May 2018, updated 6 Sep 20186 Sep 2018
Grace For Destiny
123,115 views Jul 7, 2023 #christianmotivation#godmessage#godmessagetodayHow do you know that God has chosen you to be in someone’s heart and intends for you two to be together? It is very disappointing to go through life with someone only to one day learn that you were never in their heart. This is the source of much heartbreak, disappointment, and distrust. However, when God chooses you to be in someone’s heart, it means that He wants you two to be together, and you can rest assured that the relationship with them will work out well. Why? Because God will be the foundation holding you up and the shelter keeping you safe. One of the most common things you will notice if someone truly has you in their heart and God has chosen for the two of you to be together is that they will love you. Now, please note that this is not obsession. You see, when someone is obsessed with you, they love you because of what they want to get from you or how you look. A person may be obsessed with you, and it will look like they truly care about you, but with time, the truth will reveal itself. #motivational#inspiration#christianmotivation#god#godmessage#godmessagetoday
This is what Marcia Hines said in 2014
“That’s why I like men so much because it is hard to understand them and we’re not supposed to, that’s the attraction, part of the beauty and the appeal.”
Marcia Hines divorcing husband number four with new single Amazing
MARCIA Hines is divorcing her fourth husband Dr Christopher Morrissey. “I think I must be unusual,” she says, promoting an album of originals.
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“I think I must be unusual” …. Singer Marcia Hines at the Blue Hotel, Woolloomooloo, Sy
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IF anyone is more qualified to write songs about love won and love lost, it is Marcia Hines.
Just as the much-loved singer released Amazing, her first original single in 20 years on Friday, Marcia Hines revealed she has split from her fourth husband Dr Christopher Morrissey.
The face of Smooth TV was sanguine about the demise of her 10-year relationship with the brother of designer Peter.
“Life is interesting right now. I am divorcing my husband. Am I all right? I had to make a decision,” she said.
“Things weren’t sticking anymore, for me. When I make a decision about something like that, then I’m cool. No one is to blame because I don’t believe in that but it’s just what has to be.”
The 60-year-old entertainer said that maybe she isn’t destined for a relationship which lasts a lifetime
“When I do it for life, I’ll tell you,” she said.
“I don’t know what I am but I know I must be, not so much a difficult woman, but an unusual woman to have come here at 16 years old, to have brought up a child and kept the family together and worked in a career where you are absent quite a bit with my mother as the glue who kept things together.
“So I think I think I must be unusual.”
Her new single Amazing is the first taste of a new record to be released in April which explores the many faces of love and heartbreak.
She credits a chance meeting with Joni Mitchell in Los Angeles for confirming her decision to write her first album of original songs in two decades rather than explore another covers record.
Giving Marcia help and support … Singer and songwriter Joni Mitchell.
Actor and singer … Russell Crowe in a scene from “Winter’s Tale.” (AP Photo/Warner Bros
“A dancer friend of mine Valentino told me someone wanted to meet me and it was Joni Mitchell. Then I caught my breath,” she said.
“We got to a house in Bel Air and there she is. Somehow Joni and I shuffled off to another room and we talked, with her encouraging me in the way that only another musician can.
“She played me her playlist of all the songs she would really dig if she was stranded on a desert island and told me I had to get mine together.
“I told her my ideas about what I wanted to do next and she told me to follow them.”
She has still got style and looks … Singer Marcia Hines.
First album of original songs in 20 years.
Guests on the album include Diesel and Russell Crowe, who duets on a song which is a tribute to Nutbush City Limits.
Some of the songs were influenced by her “spying” on people.
“I always have much to say because I am a very emotional person. And I like to hear what other people have to say too so I became a bit of a spy and would sit in cafes to hear what people would say about their love affairs,” she said, laughing.
“Usually it ends up with women saying that men just don’t understand them.
“That’s why I like men so much because it is hard to understand them and we’re not supposed to, that’s the attraction, part of the beauty and the appeal.”
Hines’ former husbands in the 1980s and 1990s were French businessman Andre DeCarpentry, keyboard player Jamie McKinley, and businessman Ghassan Bayni.
“When I do it for life, I’ll tell you” … Singer Marcia Hines at The Blue Hotel, Woolloo
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