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Kev Peirce 🇦🇺 @[email protected] · 2026-08-17 · 09:24 UTC

A quiet residence glimpsed across calm water through stone arches.

Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia.

#Photo #Photography #Australia #Tasmania #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #PortArthur #Waterfront #FramedComposition #HeritageSite #AustralianHistory

#photo #photography #australia #tasmania #blackandwhite #monochrome

Kev Peirce 🇦🇺 @[email protected] · 2026-08-17 · 09:24 UTC

A quiet residence glimpsed across calm water through stone arches.

Port Arthur, Tasmania, Australia.

#Photo #Photography #Australia #Tasmania #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #PortArthur #Waterfront #FramedComposition #HeritageSite #AustralianHistory

#photo #photography #australia #tasmania #blackandwhite #monochrome

HeathC @[email protected] · 2026-08-17 · 08:48 UTC

As I said, it’s difficult to get an interesting photograph of a wombat. They pretty much just turn their back and put their head down to graze all day, so you end up with a lot of wombat’s arses. But occasionally, a baby wombat pokes its head out for a little munch. #photography #wildlife #tasmania

#photography #wildlife #tasmania

HeathC @[email protected] · 2026-08-17 · 08:48 UTC

As I said, it’s difficult to get an interesting photograph of a wombat. They pretty much just turn their back and put their head down to graze all day, so you end up with a lot of wombat’s arses. But occasionally, a baby wombat pokes its head out for a little munch. #photography #wildlife #tasmania

#photography #wildlife #tasmania

Robin Evans @[email protected] · 2026-08-17 · 05:54 UTC

SAM’S BODY MADE ME THINK
ABOUT MY OWN 💎

Watching Sam's video on YouTube today, I couldn't help noticing his weight.

https://youtu.be/l6UNS8zFdGE?si=BwlIxbTWYv--obu2

For an able-bodied person, he might simply look on the bigger side. But watching him struggle with movement, I found myself wondering how much additional work that weight must place on a disabled body already having enormous difficulty moving.

I say that with enormous understanding and sympathy, because I had a major stroke myself and have lived with left-sided hemiplegia for decades now. I know how much effort an impaired body can require simply to get through an ordinary day.

In my own case, losing a substantial amount of weight through daily fasting has changed my life.

Moving is vastly easier. My balance has improved to the point where I can now stand still comfortably. I no longer feel so top-heavy and unstable. Walking is easier both uphill and downhill. I live in Hobart, so walking around this city provides plenty of opportunity to test that.

I can dress myself again. For years, I needed my partner's help with much of my self-care and dressing. My body simply feels lighter and easier to carry around, and I can reach everything with my one usable hand.

Breathwork has been equally important for me. I practise it every day, and together with fasting, it has changed the way I experience both my disability and my body.

For me, breathwork has coincided with far less depression, clearer airways and a much more active mind. I write every day now, often using AI to help me turn my thoughts into words.

I'm not suggesting either fasting or breathwork is a treatment for what happened to Sam. His medical situation was vastly more complicated than mine.

I'm only speaking about what happened to me.

When I was Sam's age, being disabled and overweight didn't seem particularly important. Nobody in the medical world said much about my weight, so I didn't either.

By 50, carrying it was becoming challenging.

By 65, it was crushing.

That was when I began fasting.

Becoming physically lighter has given me an extraordinary amount of my independence back.

I'm still disabled. That hasn't magically disappeared.

But at 70 now, I'm lighter, fitter and more independent. I can walk 10,000 steps in a day, dress myself, and move through the world far more easily than I could several years ago.

For this disabled body, it has been life-changing.

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#disability #stroke #hemiplegia #fasting #breathwork #recovery #mobility #independence #aging #health #livedexperience #Tasmania #Hobart #AI #accessibility #people #peace #person

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