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Within a marmalade sandwich

Posted on November 28, 2022 by insister_xz0h57

Hints of passion in a pocket of joy  I was recently asked to be the keynote speaker at the 2022 Faculty of Education Awards for Excellence and Recognition night at Southern Cross University. The Awards committee was looking for someone who would deliver a congratulatory and inspirational speech to the student winners, their guests, and…

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Resku me: Research and poetic entanglements in 17 syllables

Posted on November 5, 2022November 29, 2022 by insister_xz0h57

“When you’re working in a strict form, sometimes a certain magic takes place. You realize that the content is finding itself in the form. The form gives you your poem” (Late in the day, 2015, p. 80). Ursula K. Le Guin Feminist, science fiction and fantasy writer, poet and non-fiction essayist       In…

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The ragged vitality of teeth

Posted on October 10, 2022 by insister_xz0h57

The rawness of gums The day it happened; I knew for certain. The flesh of Mum’s memories were no longer rooted in her mind, and neither were her teeth in her mouth. When I walked in, she was sitting unshowered and crying on her unmade bed in a worn pale pink chenille dressing gown. She…

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Writing in-form: A woman’s hand

Posted on August 29, 2022 by insister_xz0h57

Just write, just write, just write I am reading Natalie Goldberg’s Writing down the bones: Freeing the writer within—well actually, I’m listening to her read it to me. Mostly on my way to work as company during the four-hour round car trip there and back, sometimes when I am out walking in the quiet hours before…

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A carrier bag of fruit: Logans, blues, strawberries, oranges and apples

Posted on July 14, 2022 by insister_xz0h57

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a…

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What’s love got to do with it?

Posted on June 24, 2022June 24, 2022 by insister_xz0h57

Here she is – my gal, the thinker. Wondering and writing with the words of Jeanette Winterson in 12 Bytes and those gifted to the world by Ursula Le Guin in The lathe of heaven; moved to wonder and write by bell hooks in All about love: New visions, always by Dorothy Allison but this time in Two…

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Purple diary

Posted on May 31, 2022July 15, 2022 by insister_xz0h57

“What I really mean is: How will I stay alive, if I stop writing?” (2020)   Helen Garner Australian novelist and diarist     Writing between the lines: A gift There is a photo of me nursing Lucy pinned to the inside cover of my purple diary. The two of us are sitting outside in…

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Reflections on a conference

Posted on May 21, 2022 by insister_xz0h57

Can you come a little closer?  No, I was mistaken—it wasn’t you, it was just a fleeting shadow. Would you like to join your old friend for a coffee? No, never mind—you’ll only end up feeling like a perfect stranger. You’ll feel better when you get home and lay down next to the one you…

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Blue diary

Posted on April 2, 2022April 5, 2022 by insister_xz0h57

As a matter of fact, miraculous and magical things happen I can’t remember the first Alice Hoffman book I read. I don’t think it was Practical Magic (1995), even though I loved the movie of the same name starring Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock. Practical Magic tells the story of twin witch sisters Sally and…

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Thank you, Freda Bage

Posted on March 11, 2022 by insister_xz0h57

“Have you seen the grotesque of her in the Great Court at the University? How delightful is the sculpture of her behind a steering wheel in homage to the way she practically and politically moved men around!” Anna Frederika (Freda) Bage (1883-1970) Academic Biologist Motoring adventurer Sports administrator University administrator Women’s activist   Yesterday She…

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