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Bad – U2 (video link) If you twist and turn away If you tear yourself in two again If I could, you know I would If I could I would Let it go Surrender Dislocate Bono speaks to me. In song. He has for...
View ArticleAn Inconvenient Grief
I’ve been working on this post all week. Grief is proving so tricky to articulate. I’ve been so exhausted by it that I thought there was no way I could rise up to join with Edenland’s Fresh Horses link...
View ArticleI’m Sorry
Edenland’s Fresh Horses post this week is a series of sentences starting with “Sorry”. If you go over to Eden’s post (and if you haven’t, you should, it’s compelling), you’ll see it’s nothing about...
View ArticleIn My African Dream
Have you ever bought a CD on the strength of it’s cover? When I was 22 I walked into a music store and saw this: I’d never heard of the artist, had no idea about their music, I did not have much spare...
View ArticleThe Restart
It seems that all my bridges have been burned But, you say that’s exactly how this grace thing works It’s not the long walk home that will change this heart But the welcome I receive with the restart...
View ArticleLate Night
Listening to the song. Again and again. The spell it has on me. Rain in the moonlight. Steady drumming of my heart. Unbroken humming. Sweet breaths of sleep creep under the door. Alone at last. Curling...
View ArticleGetting On With The Show
Are you still here? I hope so. I’ve been away again. I can’t tell you how many times I sat down in the last few weeks and willed my brain to type a post. Blank screen. Every time. Unbloggable events...
View ArticleIn the Dark
When the music started I sank into my seat in the dark. It only took a second for my heart to unhinge from its axis. From there I was free. There’s something very liberating about going to a concert...
View ArticleDreaming of Michaelangelo
Saturn on a line A sun afire on strings and wires To spin above my head and make it right But any time you like You can catch a sight of angel eyes all emptiness and infinite And I dream of...
View ArticleThis Great Adventure – The Lion King Edition
This life is a great adventure. This is how we live: Seize opportunities. Follow passions. Choose colour. Love hard. Just go! When I heard the Lion King was coming to Melbourne I didn’t hesitate to buy...
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