And we're up. Ditched Facebook. Too much duckface.

Wow, is this thing still on?

Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.

It feels like I spent a lot of my childhood staring out of rain-flecked windows, watching the dogwood and sassafras blur into an ironbark sky and listening to classical music. This isn't true, it's a conceit of memory. Landscape and music have always been linked for me though. One ( Read more... )

I can't wait until we face the mountains together, buffered by the Sou-Westerly. This is the view. This is my birth. Home.

Just over the hill old and new friends are enjoying the annual Jackeys Marsh Forest festival. I'm amused that my Stepdad may decamp from his hilltop hexagonal house and join them. They will pass in inglorious anonymity none the ( Read more... )

I walked to the edge of the city today until it yielded its unremarkable secret: it's just one of a thousand exits and entrances, a hurried path of screaming trucks and whooshing cars, pot holes and mud puddles pitting the surface like inverse braille, a palimpsest of commutation. I picked a path around the asphalt, furtively edging the road, ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamt I was an outlaw mercenary in a world taken over by mutants who were protected by a highly sophisticated defence system. The non-mutants were a slave class relegated to the task of sustaining the mutants’ existence. The slave class did not have access to the mutants, and interfaced with them through the defence system (androids ( Read more... )

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I've just been diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome. I will negotiate reduced hours at work, if they cannot accommodate this request, I'm going to have to leave. I cannot cope with my workload. I accept my limitations now and I'm more relieved than upset. Finally I feel like I have the permission I need to just rest; to stop pushing and rest.

Can the LGBT community spare some outrage for Duanna Johnson?

Just to be trans, just to be a woman, just to be a person of color [...] is enough to drastically increase one’s exposure to hatred and violence; when oppressions overlap, violence tends to multiply."Duanna Johnson is the third African American transgender woman to be murdered in ( Read more... )

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Honestly, no one's holding the cat down and squeezing it into a yogurt box, the cat actually did it itself, amusingly.