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Two families, two lives… so similar but so different

18. July 2010

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Two families, two lives… so similar but so different

HOW DO YOU ACCOUNT for the different way that life turns out for people, even when they share much in common?

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A tale of sad liaisons and of the high seas

28. March 2008

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I remember Pierre well but I’m not sure that his memory of me is as sharp. I got this impression one Saturday afternoon in the late summer of 2007 when a friend and I were walking the foot track that follows the Tamar River. It was on the banks of that river that we encountered him...

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An excursion into shared memory… a house, a mystery package and a……

22. February 2008

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An excursion into shared memory… a house, a mystery package and a……

Discussions of the past raise questions about memory... is it unique or can it be a reconstructed reality? A mystery package and a burning fuel drum stimulate our wonderings...

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Undergoing its own sea change

22. October 2007

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The turbid waters off Balmain wharf hold a dark secret now covered in the mud of decades. It's origin can be traced back to a young woman and young man who late one afternoon were walking along Glebe Point Road...

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Like faces at a window

29. September 2007

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Like faces at a window

It is now 1970 and now, at 168 Cathedral Street, people were to come and go through the year, however there would remain a core of permanent residents to bring a sense of continuity and stability to the share house...

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A decade turns

28. August 2007

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A decade turns

It is almost 1970 and this is Sydney. Focused on the present moment, we afford too little thought to the next ten years... the next five years... the next year. I guess we imagine, if we actually do this, that it will be a continuation of the past few years...

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Partings

20. August 2007

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For most, it was the last experience of communal life before long term partnerships (or a succession of longer-term relationships for some) and families...

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