Leaving footprints in the Sand

07/11/2025

Mens Sheds and Leather.

When it comes to Men's Sheds the mind can wander to what actually goes on inside these places of many trades?

Jim, Kevin and Terry down at Beenleigh District Men's Shed where telling me about a couple of special projects but none more amazing then helping modify and make an addition to a wheel chair with a Lower Extremeity Amputee Support to make freedom of movement and community access more comfortable.

Here, I am handing over some donated leather work tools. I know right! Yes, repairs and custom leather work, donated lawn mowers are reconditioned and given to community members as well as working in the metal shop.

If you or someone you know has a skill they would like to learn or utilise what skills they have and connect with like minded males, then I could not recommend finding your local Men's Shed enough.

To find Beenleigh District Men's Shed go to the link below:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DHA3Jbxh5/

I can be found Monday - Friday, beside the other Team members supporting Logan City Council community members at Logan East Community Neighbourhood Centre.
Being a Community Connect Worker means offering Logan based Supports and Services that work towards positive outcomes to people who present in crisis, issues or for service navigation.
For more information contact me at LECNA:
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05/11/2025

Breakthrough Movember: An evening with Corey Lum and Hayden Esparon

Thursday 27 November 2025 at 6:00PM
Logan Hyperdome Library

Growing a moustache isn't the only way to be part of Movember and change the face of men's health. Join us for an intimate and powerful evening for men with 2 inspiring wellbeing advocates —Corey Lum from Logan East Community Centre Association and Hayden Esparon from KENG KENG.

They will draw on their lived experiences and, through open dialogue, work to break down barriers—encouraging men to speak up, seek support, and empower one another.
Corey and Hayden with be joined in conversation with radio host Jason Dasey. There will be time for audience questions and informal chats over light refreshments. For ages 16+ and adults. Bookings required.

When
6:00PM - 7:30PM
Thursday 27 November 2025
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Contact
(07) 3081 5400

Where
Logan Hyperdome Library
66 - 70 Mandew Street
Shailer Park QLD

https://loganlibraries.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=172432





KENG KENG Logan East Community Centre Logan City Council

Growing a moustache isn't the only way to be part of Movember and change the face of men's health. Join us for an intimate and powerful evening for men with 2 inspiring wellbeing advocates —Corey Lum from Logan East Community Neighbourhood Association and Hayden Esparon from Kingston East Neig...

28/10/2025

Want to plan for life once your young one starts school?
Are they currently in Day Care and you have dreamed of working again, even upskilling to get back to the point where life was put on hold?

I had the opportunity to speak with Mesi and meet Maana from YFS Ltd- Parent Pathways to learn more about the Support for parents to re-enter work and or career.

Parent Pathways offer a wide range of support, including:
• Language or literacy programs
• Help finding a childcare centre and support with childcare costs
• Financial assistance, such as covering the cost of training courses, textbooks, or purchasing a computer
• Access to driving lessons and support with licence applications
• Referrals to services like financial information support, counselling, parenting support or family and domestic violence assistance
• Training opportunities, such as short courses at your local TAFE
• Career guidance

This program is entirely voluntary, allowing you to join, pause, or return whenever it suits your needs.

For more information on YFS Ltd; Parent Pathways go to the below link:
https://www.yfs.org.au/parentpathways/

I can be found Monday - Friday, beside the other Team members supporting Logan Region community members. Being a Community Connect Worker means offering Logan based Supports and Services that work towards positive outcomes to people who present in crisis, issues or for service navigation.
For more information contact me at Logan East Community Centre:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1YNcnMgfGm/

10/07/2025

It's not men working on cars, it's cars working on men

As I transition in to my next phase of direction I am privileged to be assisting NDIS participants in to proactive programs and or initiatives that not only fully utilise their funding but improve their Mental Health and general well-being.

I am currently looking for interactive and proactive programs for participants in the young adult to mature adult age range.

Today was a great opportunity to introduce Wheelnutz and implement the program for a young male in Logan with another having an introduction in Wheel Nutz Brendale next week.

VERY EXCITING FAM!

for more info regarding Wheelnutz check out the link Below

Disability Mechanics | Wheelnutz Garage | Gold Coast https://share.google/6AwK1Z4awkNe0wrR0

or if you are a program delivery provider reach out to me today.

01/07/2025

I never liked Nick Caves music.
I knew he was a niche or had a cult following but from him, this I get.

Adults who live with childhood Trauma at some starting point lost hope. They lost faith.

In losing these we lose not just ourselves but our whole perception of society, civilisation and in innate ability to see the good or best in others.

You have to challenge the narrative.
The staus quo doesn't exist in everything only in somethings.

There are different versions of somethings and they exist in everything.

It involves confronting and laughing at somethings and also being angry and then loving somethings.

I'm not saying I'm going to start listening to Nick Caves music, but maybe to change I'll start listening to the things I don't like.

Faith and hope














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29/06/2025

"The future you needs you, the past you doesn't".

Of all the problems and issues that keep building up.
The best way to face them, is starting with the most obvious one.

Write down a list of everything that's on your mind and what is on that "pile of just keeps growing", and look at the things that can be easily processed and dealt with and "complete the task".

Make it a focus, commitment and make small sacrifices to complete every small till you finally feel like your starting to get space to breath.

Your best version of you still exists, it never left, it's always been there, inside of you.

Speak his name, sound out loud who he is.

This is me. I am him. He is me.

Don't think, get up and do it.

Keep going brother.














***deawareness

19/03/2025

Patience, Kindness and Calm

My son and I engage in ground based, fine motor skill activities. Sometimes its Lego, sometimes it's drawing.
As my Life became fast paced the traits of mine that became dominant was impatience and intolerance.
For him I needed to relearn calmness and kindness, because with fast pace expectations in him I started to see reluctance and a eversion to disappointment.

As a parent I had to look at self reflection and accountability and see that the issues that where frustrating me was not because of incompetence or malice, it was because I had not put aside the time for him to teach me who he was, where he was, what he was and why he was.
So he builds and I learn.

When a tree is sick or does not grow, we must first look to the environment and the soil that nurtures it.
From there we can see the fruits of our labor.
In my language I embrace Takiwatanga: in their own space. In their own time.

24/02/2025

I love you man.

At some point when I first met you our friendship transcended.
You became less of a friend and more than that you became familiar, you became family.

Feom that time I've moved location, gone through some tough and painful things that broke me mentally and physically.
I suffered by myself, but I never thought I was alone.

I always had something familiar.

In four years I have had four people I loved leave this world and only one past from old age and I told him how much he meant to me.
He became familiar, like you. He became family.

I'm scared and I'm afraid.

Three have past away and they never heard me sat how much their lives meant to me and how them being alive gave me strength.

When you feel tired, sad, alone and as if no one cares.

Know this.

You have always been familiar to me.
You are not my friend, you are family.

I love you man.

Somewhere, someone you know needs to know.
Don't let them pass not knowing, it could mean one more day.














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24/02/2025

Do a friend check and remember it's about the ones we have from the past and the ones we can add for the future

Live life, add friends, gain family














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17/02/2025

I'm proud of you.

Even though you may feel at times you don't know why, I know why.

We suffer in silence, circulating thoughts of negative persuasion. Wondering if anyone see's or even cares about the struggles life throws at us and how it can go unseen or recognised.

I'm proud of you, I see you, I feel you.

You have over come so much and believe it or not your a stronger version of yourself now then you ever where.

Keep going, eventually you'll win.
Eventually the happiness you deserve and the sense of your true accomplishment will present itself and you will feel like it was all worth it and say " I'm proud of me".

I'm proud of you soldier, my guy, my friend, my brother.















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15/02/2025

Thank you to the community and business owners who helped us to set up this brother and sister.
The first photo was all they had to sleep, store there possessions and now thanks to all your support they can now focus on the next step.

I don't know everything about their situation that led them here all I know now is that they don't have to sleep in unsecured parks or live in anxiousness.

These are a small portion of the people we assist every week, I don't do a lot of shout outs for support and this was one of the few times I was inundated, so thank you from the siblings.

Thank you to these groups:
Ngarang-Wal
Superior traffic management
Katie Fox Kalib Nicholls Marshall Dickey















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