Tag Archive | "Memoir"
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?
Continue reading...Solitary, long ago
Monday, September 28, 2009
Story & photos: Russ Grayson IT’S PERVERSE, REALLY. To walk these mountains you start by descending rather than climbing. The reason is that the Blue Mountains do not rise from a plain to culminate in high ridges and peaks. They are a plateau formed when the earth here uplifted millions of years ago. The Blue Mountains are [...]
Continue reading...City in memory
Monday, December 29, 2008
We inhabit our own geographies... geographies formed by patterns of movement from home to work, from home to our recreational haunts or to the homes of friends. But geographies remembered and real do not always accord...
Continue reading...A tale of sad liaisons and of the high seas
Friday, March 28, 2008
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...
Continue reading...An excursion into shared memory… a house, a mystery package and a……
Friday, February 22, 2008
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...
Continue reading...Undergoing its own sea change
Monday, October 22, 2007
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...
Continue reading...Like faces at a window
Saturday, September 29, 2007
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...
Continue reading...A decade turns
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
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...
Continue reading...Partings
Monday, August 20, 2007
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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- The Trainer papers... 4
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- Why is Food Connect taking off?
- Food Summit hands declaration on food futures to NSW Parliament
- An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers
- Policy related documents
- Mark Diesendorf — from academia to climate action campaigner
- Something new, something edible this way comes
- Rosemary's retrofit a good home forever
- Lawson residents ready to garden as community
- Yvonne Gluyas: Yes, it WAS 'Barricades"!!! Now I remember that so...
- alfredo zotti: Dr Bob Rich has given some valuable feedback on my...
- alfredo zotti: I would like to add a correction here. My wife mis...
- Merilyn Thomas: Today I was waiting for my son to have an MRI in T...
- Jane Logan: Hi Russ I am doing an assignment for uni (I am st...
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