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wedding
There is no picture that I have ever taken of my brother Keith that captures how I see him as well as this. I knew it when I released the shutter, standing between him and the congregation on his wedding to Jill in September, 2014 in Melbourne. He was giving his groom’s speech. It’s […]
da
The following anecdote I wrote soon after the fact. Christmas Day 2011 Dad took the dog for a walk after dinner and had him a tumble. A local man appeared at the door with the dog and said dad was down the road but not dead, he had somehow punched his own face with the […]
waiting in the wings
Our mother was a formidable influence on us as children, intimidatingly and singularly strong. Last night, she told me this was a reaction to her own mother’s absence in her upbringing, that she had made the conscious decision to be there for her own children in all things. I don’t remember our grandmother. She died […]