Download the Karuna Christmas Market 2007 flyer
The festive season is fast approaching and Karuna’s creative and dedicated team of craft volunteers have been preparing since autumn for the annual Christmas Market in early December.
A sumptuous array of hand-made Christmas treats, decorations, festive food and gifts will be available to decorate and enhance your Christmas celebrations… and best of all your purchases will help to support the work of Karuna, your favourite Brisbane charity.
So mark these dates in your diaries now!!
Download the Karuna June 2007 Appeal in pdf format
Our story actually began a long time ago,but I will start on May 10th 2002, the day Philip and I moved into What If Farm.
We called it What If Farm after my propensity to start every sentence with ‘what if?’ What if we put up fences? We could have lots of animals.What if we built a barn? What if we went organic and grew our own vegetables? What if? What if? What if?
It became our mantra and What If Farm became the realisation of our dream. On September 21st 2002, Philip and I were married on the deck that he built (What if we built a deck? We could get married there).
This was a very happy time in our lives but two months later all that changed when Philip was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer.
Philip’s determination to ‘beat this thing’ was incredible.We applied our “What if?” mantra and we tried everything we could lay our hands on.
Throughout these first few years I heard of Karuna many times. Friends talked of the amazing support they had received from Karuna, our dear friend Maria, shared her strong association with Karuna with us. Karuna kept coming into our conversations and our consciousness.
Philip continued to work, we kept looking for answers, we kept hoping. Hope became the lifeline we sent out. But in December 2005 one of his tumors compressed his spinal cord. Paralysed from the chest down, Philip lay in the emergency ward of the Royal Brisbane Hospital. Emergency spinal surgery was scheduled. At 3.00 am the hospital staff suggested we say goodbye, his chances of surviving the operation was slim, the possibility that he would ever walk again was even slimmer. Philip survived and walked out of hospital 7 days later, but our world changed at that moment.
Continue reading ‘Karuna’s June 2007 Appeal Letter’
