In a row of houses, dark as the night, still as the ones in slumber, a room remains alight. Here was a boy on his bed, sitting up, awake as ever, leaning ever so slightly towards the man sitting at the bed's edge - who is equally wide awake and equally animated as he. Deep as the pair of son and father found...

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We all take one last look before walking away. This was true for me the night I was in Brisbane last. I had a morning left of being there ahead of me still, but already I was taking in everything around me the way I would a memory: each look a lingering one; feeling nostalgic for all that was for all that I...

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Here I am, being met with a Circumstance. And though it isn't my own to personally bear, I feel the weight of it all the same. My first thought is that this is a worrying thing; that I should ready myself with at least some semblance of strength - one where I would hold myself firm, and tough, and steady. But I walk...

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In looking back to what I've learned from 2019, I find that it means to sift through memories from a kaleidoscope of days - days that look like this: cups of tea taken in second’s to begin each day anew; frantic scribbles of notes on paper in pen, tucking them in between the pages of a growing journaling book; making heart-song the words...

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