Tag Archives: Perth

THE BEAUTIFUL BLISS

By sophie | February 21st, 2009
So, I’m just about busting out of my skin with blessed happiness. How does one get happy? Golly, it sneaks up on you, and I suspect it has something to do with being PRESENT. Present to the past, present to the future, but fully, whole-heartedly in the presently grounded nowness of this very moment. It [...]
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NIGHT OF SUNS

By sophie | January 26th, 2009
It was a night when the heat melted right through the skin and handwriting was different to my usual scrawl. Music as balmy as the night, the stove running flames, the fountain spilling over. The breeze, a breath, cotton nearly soaked through. Sky fading, sun rays aching through bamboo slits. Verandah couches, sweated brow, father [...]
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QUOTES OF THE DAY

By sophie | January 25th, 2009
“I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?” – William Stafford (American poet William Stafford is best known for his first book of poems, Traveling Through the Dark, published when he was 48. Stafford was born in 1914 in Kansas and spent most of [...]
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ACT NATURAL

By sophie | December 24th, 2008
The longer I spend away from this edge town, the more birds it seems move in. The more I spend in this edge town, the more I seem to write about birds. I’m at the edge of nowhere. I once took a plane from the UK via Hong Kong back to Perth, and walked 20 [...]
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