What would Father do when he realised the man whose shadow he’d grown up in was living only an hour from us? Probably nothing. Father’s a placid man, not given to anger. I can’t imagine him wanting to confront or seek revenge. He’d probably have a faraway look for a few days, while pondering the …
Father’s meeting with Everleigh Blandell-Collins sets a quiet, yet disturbing scene for collapse. While Finn had given a rundown of some of the stages of collapse in the previous chapter, it’s a distant thing, he repeats the words given to him, he has no direct experience. Father provides the brutal reality. Even those with good …
Finn explores the abandoned house and discovers the remains of the owner, who continues the theme of life, death and rebirth. The man’s body feeds the next generation of life. A tree, pg 45. Finn hopes this is not something that will come of his own remains, yet, in Chapter 36, pg 276, he recalls …
About 35 years ago I was working in a record shop and serving a blind man. I didn’t notice, but he dropped a $10 note. A young boy, about 10, rushed over, picked it up, gently took his hand and placed the note in it and I burst into tears. Kindness can seem so small …
Reciprocity is the ancient recipe for equilibrium. Reciprocity is the belief system of The Huon Settlement. They each find ways to give back and look at the balance of how much they take, and the services they return. The frog ponds at the kindness circle fosters the lives of frogs, an endangered species, while also …
Antiscian (n.) When people on opposite sides of the worldcast shadows in opposite directions at noon. Most days, when I stare up at the sun and figure it can go no higher, I think of my antiscian who will be casting a shadow in the opposite direction to mine. I like to think the stranger …
