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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 75: You go Outside With Your Tea

You go outside with your tea and stand in your backyard, marveling at what is around you whilst you slowly sip away. You look at the trees and see cicada shells on the trunks and branches as you listen to … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 48: Here we sit

Here we sit, on the volcanic layers forming a cake of crust and stone, burning our desires into shapes that we cannot choose to muster if we were so forever able to try, as we are but mere mortals, shaking … Continue reading

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Five-hundred Word Challenge 31: Beard and the Seasons

SUMMER: The thick growth on the face is keeping my chin, jaw and neck warmer than I thought it would. The season started off okay, but the cycle of dry and humid heat is making it almost a danger to … Continue reading

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Five-hundred Word Challenge 23: It’s cold

It’s cold today. Really cold. I’m somewhat glad that my office has air conditioning. It’s useful as a temporary reprieve but I don’t like how it gets your body used to a temperature that is only going to be temporary. … Continue reading

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Five-hundred Word Challenge 19: Being Sick Sucks

Today I’ve decided to see if I can be significantly faster than yesterday, so I’ve also (unintentionally) set up a playlist that is about thirty-one seconds shorter than the time it took me to write yesterday. I really don’t enjoy … Continue reading

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A Good day for a View

This was taken on the same day as my photo of the Lewis Wolfe Levy Fountain. About forty minutes into our walk we stopped briefly to rest. I decided to take photos of the view as I had a flat … Continue reading

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Summer has Ended

The sun sets to rise anew Trees are caressed by the wind as the days of summer become a memory The loving embrace of darkness greets the earth Even in shadows bare branches reach for the skies as though there … Continue reading

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Waterfall

This was taken a few weekends ago when Ewe and I were in Katoomba. Anna had joined us on Sunday. We did a bit of bush walking to look for a place to swim. We ended up at the Pool … Continue reading

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A Tree in Katoomba on a Winter Morning

I was planning on having four written posts completed tonight but that fell through, so instead I’m going to finish the night off with a picture. Ewe and I were in Katoomba to do some bush walking on the first … Continue reading

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