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So it's late afternoon and the storm has passed, the light has begun to pearl. I've ducked into the local store to buy tomatoes and am issuing barefoot out of their sliding doors and down ...read more
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Walking under the devastated trees the afternoon after a huge storm, their fresh scattered blossoms and leaves all over the pavement and all over the road as though some glorious festival has been by, I ...read more
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The guy I adore has conversations with birds. These appear to be actual reciprocal chats, where the bird says something and he answers. After he has mimicked what the bird has to say, the bird ...read more
We tried out a new coffee house, on our bicycles. Actually it was an old cafe, one of Brisbane's earliest, in a dingy nook at the entrance to the gold-crusted cinemas on Queen Street. However ...read more
Pissed on by a possum as I was lying in the hammock. Cat sprang out and stalked off, tail in air. Possum continued climbing the branch, tail in air. This was after I had already ...read more
I just cycled home through the spattering rain, with thunder rolling heavy overneath, and as I swept down the hill riding on my brakes I passed a cluster of dark-clad people raising their umbrellas, phones ...read more
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I have no depth and everything within me is shallow and small. I waste this only thing time. I spend it as a charity on stultifying trivialities all pettifogging at the window's pain like untrue ...read more
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Seems to me when you have yourself a brow bar (they only do eyebrows), a blow-dry bar (they only dry hair), and a tanning salon (they brown people) in the one block, it could be ...read more
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God, I feel so depressed about the American midterm results today. What seems clear is: the more frightened people become about the horrors of climate disaster, water wars, drought refugees, the more they vote for ...read more