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Glenn Montgomery's avatar

I appreciate the streams of consciousness that appear to influence your writing (and I could be dead wrong!). My time spent in South America this year has been, in some respects, a chance to separate from the comfortable and familiar. My path forward may not be any clearer, but what you've shared provides welcome company for the journey.

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Peter Shepherd's avatar

Love the hip-rock-hopping jazz of it all. There's a beautiful old world-worded book by Robert MacFarlane called (I think) Nessa, poeticated on a bomb shelter on the coast. Nuclear language entanglement? My favourite line (of yours today) is that you just liked the sound of that sentence. As the serpent said in the storyfold of Eden (bizarrely, in Latin), "quidne." Why not?

Appreciate the uncomfortable point. Yes, don't take things for granted. Stay hungry.

We had a pomegranate on our front porch growing up, seedful. Those seeds are rocks. But the tiny bit around the seeds, pink-neat? Patience and tiny nibbles. In neighbourhood news: just last week two kookaburras sat waiting on a branch as the dog, duck and I waddled gavorted the paddock. One their third arrived they erupted into song together, then stopped together, all looked left, then stayed that way. I think they were waiting for us to clap. But sometimes silence, like a bow, is a deeper appreciation. So I'll leave this here.

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