After a beautiful seafood feast with my parents, grandparents, cousin and best man, we walked down the pier behind The Anchorage Restaurant in Williamstown, as new husband and new wife, on the 12th of January 2009. The Australian sky blue like the one I looked up to on the 12th of January 1993, when my family and I officially came to Australia to live. Wendy Matthews’ The Day You Went Away played over the radio on that drive from the airport, and eversince, whenever that song and this colour of sky met, I’d be reminded of the first day of absolutely starting over ~ new everything. My apprehension, doubt, fear and uncertainty resonated in her lyrics ~ Hey, there’s not a cloud in the sky/ it’s as blue as your goodbye/ and I thought that it would rain/ on a day like today. Now Australia is home. A date for beginnings, today, the 12th of January 2009, I start a brand new life with my husband, Gavin, under the same, glorious Australian sky, and the word, gratitude, comes to mind.
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