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Postcard from the West
I have my toes in the Indian Ocean, a salt crusted skin and some vitamin D in my system.
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Maggie Mackellar
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A little bit broken
Dear and loyal Sitters, I’m a little bit broken.
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Maggie Mackellar
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City lights
On Saturday night, under a full moon, I flew up to Sydney.
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Maggie Mackellar
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Ode to a Black Dog
I buried my black dog this afternoon.
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Maggie Mackellar
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On change
Change is hard to write.
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Maggie Mackellar
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Heartplace
Once, many years ago, I was sitting in ‘the stack’ of the research library at UBC in Vancouver, Canada.
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Maggie Mackellar
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Picking up threads
I have three pet ewes lambing in July.
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Maggie Mackellar
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On hope
Today, at dawn I read a poem.
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Maggie Mackellar
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A bonsai in a box
All last week I was waiting.
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Maggie Mackellar
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God's Time, a postcard
Oh it’s dry here.
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Maggie Mackellar
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A snippet from my new year's desk
Drink from the well
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Maggie Mackellar
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Everything old is new again
This time last week I was writing in the car as we sped up the Hume Hwy.
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Maggie Mackellar
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