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A Tapestry Of Fragments

From My Mind

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From the author of Echoes of the Past, comes A Tapestry Of Fragments From My Mind, a more expansive compilation of thought-provoking poetry from the observations, life experiences and imagination of Lesley J. Mooney, now aged over 90. This heartfelt collection is both meaningful and creative. Comprised of two parts, the poems in Part One: A Tapestry Of Fragments are from the heart, exploring the facets of love, emotions and dreams, as well as actual recollections, while the poems in Part Two: Fragments From My Mind involve more direct, and often amusing, comments, thoughts and opinions about l...

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The author Lesley June Mooney (nee Hubbard), of mixed English/European blood, was born in the early nineteen-thirties in Perth, Western Australia, during the Depression. She was educated there at boarding colleges until aged fifteen, when her parents separated. With Dad and younger brother Bradley, they left Perth and lived and worked outback in North Western Australia on sheep stations. She went to Wyndham then, when nearly seventeen she took on clerical work for the government in Darwin for over two years, then Sydney, and again in Perth. While separated her from her brother; he accidently died on holidays after his marriage to Mary.At the age of twenty-one, Lesley flew to Queensland to cook on Yelvertoft station near her father, though totally inexperienced. She then cooked and cared for an elderly man in McKinlay Queensland, where she met her future husband. After their honeymoon in 1953 to Melbourne with five of his mates, she met and talked to her mother, who later disappeared. Ernie and Lesley returned to Mackay to live and she worked with her husband, a carpenter/plasterer, who then ran a dairy for his employer, until being hospitalised for two years, leaving her to look after the family. By 1966 Ernie and Lesley had six children, five daughters and one son, and he ran a bull stud until 1973, when they both moved to a hotel which he leased in Glenella, Mackay. Lesley quickly learned to do bar work, book-keeping, and became friendly, astute and wiser, while cooking for her family and the hotel until 1980. (It was later demolished.) Ernie continued to run the bull stud, and Lesley took on selling jewellery, then nightwear (using models), then ran a coffee shop. Their only son died in an accident when aged twenty-one, after which Ernie retired to fish; but Lesley gained financial help and bought a small five acre property out of Mackay in 1989. Here she pulled out guinea grass and rocks for years to establish lovely gardens on the hill and build a small home, with her daughters helping. She and Ernie divorced in 1992. Her family visited often as did the many groups which she joined. Ernie re-married but they stayed friends. He has since passed on. Being a Taurean, Lesley is artistic, loves music, the piano, art, singing and dancing, and in her fifties she started tap dancing, then learned all ballroom styles in competition, plus Latin and belly dancing. She has taken courses at TAFE, and with U3A she started a theatre group forseniors, then had fun with her tap dance group who entertained around town. In 1996, while in her sixties, she injured her ankle, and so began to write. First came 480 poems, named Fragments of the Mind, then many novels, seven of which she later published to good reviews, finally publishing her first poetry book Echoes of the Past in 2021, when aged 90. Although she now has a few eye and health problems, she has a loving family who are always there helping, and she appreciates the time she has to enjoy her music, gardening, writing and her loving wonderful families, until God decides it is time for her to leave.