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Brisbane's underground opened up unexpectedly and swallowed us whole. Like two fishes we went down, happy to be coveted. Brisbane sprawls on the surface of several hills, sunny and pleased with itself, the city centre ...read more
My dad has cancer. Our relationship has been so peculiar and, at times, so intolerably painful that my reaction to this news since we heard it a week ago has been mere confusion. He was ...read more
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Two men next door with an FM radio addiction came this morning and took half the lovely garden away. Distressed by the noise at first I went over to the fence in my rumpled tent ...read more
This cafe installed in a loading bay has floor-length open windows, I am sitting with my back to the sun reading an ambitious local free paper. It has a row of Brisbaneites each standing holding ...read more
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Yesterday three of us went along to a workshop whose purpose is play. They say, there is no wrong way of doing this. If you run into someone whilst crossing the room, say "Thank you." ...read more
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Jogging up the stairs through a fresh afternoon breeze past which all I can hear is shredding treetops, dense with roaring leaves, the wind pouring through and through and through them, a movement: a little ...read more
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Can there be anything more magnificent than clouds passing, at night between us and the stars, unhurriedly and without pause passing from east to west like the sun. In the distant western hills a community ...read more
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But it's not bigotry, it's just smallotry, littlotry. What's happening in Australia this week, laws being rewritten to accommodate cruelty, underlines the unease I have always felt about the sneering term 'political correctness', which seems ...read more
Last night I climbed into a tree that took me into its embrace. The saddle of the tree was high enough from the ground that I could draw my feet up and rest my forehead ...read more