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Today in Berlin I found a hand-blown wine bottle so beautiful I had to pick it up to carry home. I saw an elder descending the stairs from a sushi bar painfully and slowly. He ...read more
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In my twenties I worked at the front desk of the Queensland Art Gallery for a while. It is huge and immaculate and rather hushed. One day an old man came in, wizened and bent. ...read more
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One thing I love in Ghana is people seem so good and kind. Not all of them, I guess, but daily life seems to me founded in a beautiful mutual respect and helpfulness. I watched ...read more
I went on a date with a guy who for nearly a month had been pestering me to meet. Then he literally did not let me finish a sentence. I pointed this out and he ...read more
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Tomorrow is my Mum's birthday, she's eighty. Tomorrow is already today in Brisbane because Australia is tomorrowland. I rang her on the videophone we used to so dread in my youth. She looks pretty in ...read more
Moth drowning in the shower. Poor fluttering little guy. Even if his whole life flashed before his eyes, it's only gonna be like 24 hours or so, right? 'Flew up against this invisible wall. And ...read more
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A man I had been chatting with climbed on top of me as I was falling asleep after a party. It was at my friends' friends' place in the Hills so I had been offered ...read more
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I was overtaken on the bike path today by a puzzlingly hostile man. He seemed to have a store of labels and insults saved up and was eager to put them to use. The sun ...read more
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The grandiose way of telling this would be to say, I am flying back to Ghana for the premiere of a film in which I played a small role. The truth is, I fell in ...read more