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The days are short and so is this

The days are short and so is this

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Maggie Mackellar
Jun 16, 2025
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Dear Sit Spotters,

we are closing in on the shortest day of the year. I’m quiet. I’ve tried to write to you about this or that. This evening for example, a mob of yellow-tailed black cockatoos loped across the valley, the breath of their passage, their familiar eerie cry, raised a blush, a tattoo on my skin. Or this morning when I tipped Frank’s hay int…

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