I want to remember what it was like to live out near the cane, on the way to a waterfall, where the wallabies, goannas and bandicoots roam. We have had wallabies come visiting in the back yard. They run around until they work their way to front gate and hop out again. The otherContinue reading “Nature Diary: In the Country with the Perkins’s”
Swirling, Almost Something: Piece 18
An abstract painting full of swirling almost something shapes, hangs above the stairs in the hall entrance, and grabs the attention of all visitors to Nance’s. Visitors, especially children, are always struck by it, and stop to gaze, as Nance asks them: ’What do you think it is?’ She adds their guess to allContinue reading “Swirling, Almost Something: Piece 18”
Skin and bone, short curly hair, dreams and fancies: Piece 17
She was a funny little thing that childhood me – skin and bone, short curly hair, dreams and fancies. She used to like to pretend she knew Joan of Arc personally. She was riding in her army. She stopped her burning at the stake. She loved to pretend she was Heidi, and so when takingContinue reading “Skin and bone, short curly hair, dreams and fancies: Piece 17”
The Light and Shade of Life in Who Shaped Me
The light and shade of life is reflected in many of the current ABC Open Who Shaped Me contributions. Not everyone is happy with the person who shaped them. They have moulded themselves into an opposite. For instance read Just Jane’s initially bleak Driving Away from Darkness , a damning portrait of a relative which has me thinkingContinue reading “The Light and Shade of Life in Who Shaped Me”
The Farmer’s Wife: Piece 16
She teaches me how to drive a car as if I was an extra sister or a daughter, so I can be free to leave my country home. She says St Christopher will keep me safe when travelling and on the day of my driving test. Country places are shocking for public transport andContinue reading “The Farmer’s Wife: Piece 16”
June Paisa Perkins 