I hear you calling, I hear you! I promise I’m on my way, it’s just a matter of logistics. You didn’t give me a map! Or maybe you did, it’s just a 1000 piece puzzle scrawled all over the floor and before I can even attempt to put the pieces together I have to FIND […]
I am so grateful for home grown lemons in water. The way they took the sun and turned it into potent electricity for taste buds, mingling with water to nourish, hydrate, feed the skin and the organs and the blood. I feel every drop, and with each mouthful I am so thankful, that water springs […]
I love you. I am so happy you are here. I feel you in rays of sunshine and deep breaths into my hip flexors and the warm heaviness of my eyelids. I feel you in the way my hair gets unruly in the best way, tumbling over my face, reminding me to stay wild. I […]
I don’t know how the world is supposed to exist without him, especially in this little world, on this farm, in this house. How do mum and dad exist without asking each other every night if he has been fed to an exasperated Yes in reply? How does dad exist without clippers in his hands […]
Wasn’t I there for you enough, when you got a new job and moved to the suburbs? I’m sorry I was preoccupied for seven years, trying to succeed. Trying. I didn’t forget you. You were always top of mind. It’s just that my dreams made me believe that there was more out here. And no, […]
When we first got together and I’d act like a bird, you’d say: You can push as hard as you want, I’m not going anywhere. I would lunge against boundaries, toss myself into self-imposed walls, sprint as far as I could trying to find the line where you’d say: Enough. You’re too much. I can’t […]
10 April, 2020: Sitting around drinking coffee with Mum and Georgie. Mum is on her phone, probably playing Candy Crush; Georgie is checking orders for hand sanitiser and wine. It’s one of those times that already feels like I’m looking back on a memory, that in years to come we’ll all recall this weird time, […]
There’s a Jim Croce song that fills my throat with tar: I will go if you will take me / I have never had a lover / I am young but I am so alone. I used to drive around in my shiny red car and have to pull over as clouds destroyed my vision […]
How weird is timing? I recently re-found a piece of writing I wrote a year after setting off on my Europe trip in 2014. It was… everything. I was 22 and stupid and finally done with my degree and itching out of my skin. So much of my life changed with that trip. It plays a […]
