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Very latest Themestream articles
by Farrah Tate:
http://www.themestream.com/authors/82837.html

A selection of articles are listed below:
(Those in orange are not currently uploaded)

My Poetry is also available for distribution at http://www.poetry.com

My themestream Bio reads:
My current passion is my volunteer work as the Tertiary Student Contact with SAYME (South Australian Youth with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (otherwise known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)). I myself have suffered from CFS for many years and have battled the books and my illness for what seems like too many years. I derive a heart-felt joy from writing poetry and also from painting and drawing. A dream of mine is to be published somehow and somewhere in the nearish future! Please help me with my vision, if you so share it. Through my written work, I hope to dispel the frequent misconception that scientifically minded people cannot be imaginative, creative and passionate.

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Most of my poems are listed above; the links will take you to Themestream by opening up a separate window.
It will not cost you a cent to read these but will help to finance me, at two cents per original hit. I have injuries which prevent me from working in the area that I am qualified in and I suffer much pain daily, yet I still dedicate myself to many hours of volunteer work .... so my takings through Themestream are special pocket money just for me. More important to me is the joy that it brings me -- the income will never be significant, but the satisfaction is immense. It has been so wonderful to be part of such a wonderful and kind community. Thanks to all the contributors and to Themestream for providing such a wonderful form for talent and passion, and thanks to those who take the time to read my work. I know many of you do this for every item, with out fail, and I do cherish your support. : )

I wrote the text below in 1999, at which time I had withdrawn from honours due to significant injuries and health complaints .... and so many people washed their hands of me too readily, like I was just annoying dirt to taint their golden day. It hurt .... but in time I realised that I do not have the deficit .... they do. I'm still the same old person. I am at Uni again but taking a different course now but the comments below still reflect most of my current thoughts. I learnt an important lesson that year of 1999 .... one that resulted in my mentors changing incredibly. Once they were academics with prizes a mile long and now they are two people whom I work with for the Society, who give their all to others with no want or need for any thing in return. They never grumble or complain about their continual giving without receiving. These two people are two of the most amazing whom have ever walked the Earth. One of them I have now worked with for close to two years and I just want to let you know that I treasure your friendship and guidance more than you could ever imagine : )

Before I started to write I never knew true passion. I was a golden University student coincidingly flunking the wonders of the world. I am now a University drop-out but my spirit has been enriched ten-fold. My old University peers and many of the academic staff consider me a "loser"; I consider myself fortunate for this opportunity to be a "loser", embarking every day on the fascinating journies of endless self exploration. I write with my heart and not my head, breaking the rules of academic structure; I will write what I believe not what study dictates I should believe, and I write the truth I know rather than the misguided word I've read in mistakenly worshipped texts. And if I am a "loser", so be it, but you must know that I am the happiest and most fulfilled loser on this Earth! If this is what it means to be a loser please let me also die and be remembered as a "loser". At least I will have been loved and remembered with fondness for what I am rather than what I know.

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If insects were inspirations it would explain why most of us miss our true calling -- in our haste to continue with our materially driven lives we spend too much time swatting at what we consider distractions, killing our true potential without a thought for the consequence ... Farrah J. Tate (2000).

LEFT: L-R is Erina, Leia & Farrah | RIGHT: L-R is Leia, Debbie, Erina & Farrah

ALL IMAGES JANUARY 2001

BELOW: Clockwise from top left is Debbie, Erina, Leia & Farrah

I know I've missed quite a few friends on here but if you'd like to offer yourself up for some recent photos I can add you!

The SAYME Sub-committee folding our September (?can't remember?!) mag
L-R is Skye, Kate, Paul, Karen, Alison & Farrah

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