I went away. I saw things, beautiful things.
I came back.

Being away was good. But, being back is better.

A walk around Katoomba brings back memories of another life, of primary-school friends, and sweaty hands and bus-sickness during a school excursion. Of rest-stops and an angry father, resentful of his progeny and their need to pee. Of turn-of-the-century style, federation charm and art deco glamour…The Savoy Cafe, The Paragon Cafe and Cafe Niagara.

And the [...]

I wish you could walk with me past the gardens of Frangipani and Callistemon to the beach. I wish you could breathe in with me the salt-laden, sea-fresh air. I wish you could run with me along the beach, so your heart beats fast, and your sleep-slug blood turns ruby-red. I wish you could sit-wait [...]

The bottlebrush, so tempting in the afternoon sun-glow. Lean out, just a little, over rail, on tiptoe, don’t look down, cold hand into sun, warm tingle; this is feeling.
Fingers, arm, toes, calves, back, reach-stretch. Eyes drop, momentarily, instant vertigo rush; this is feeling.
Palm touches sun-kissed leaves, they are soft-spiky and warm. Sun reddened stamens elude [...]

Currently investigating a series of seemingly unrelated deaths in the fish world. Shebunkins, Comets, Danios, White Clouds; none have been spared. Coming on the tail of the recent “Catfish in the Filter” disaster of late 2007, the cold-blooded residents of LilliPilli Land are nervous, very nervous. The short residents perform head-counts with obsessive regularity; scanning [...]

In the bush I walked through and around traces of men. I felt the sturdiness of that other time, a time before disposable, when things were built to last, ostensibly forever.
Oxidise and erode, seep nutrients into the bush, as she opens mouth in silence and clamps hands to face. Time, time and still more time.
And [...]