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There is a shame in not having enough, in being the one who doesn’t pay their round at the pub, or who never hosts a dinner, or who hasn’t travelled. But there is also something shameful about having money, a savings plan, shares, and those who have it rarely seem to let on.
We realise we don’t have each other’s parents’ numbers, or any emergency contacts. My god, Niki says, my yoga studio has more information than you do.
We don’t have much storage, so we have stacked the toilet paper along the corridor and there is a pile on the lounge-room coffee table.
Why don’t any of these people work? I ask her. I realise we are also at the beach in the middle of the week, and we are also both currently semi-employed,
There is an art to gelato eating in summer under the fierce Australian sun.
crack-your-heart-open bushland.
Fear of change is classic nationalistic behaviour. The power structures will remain, and no foreigners, or women, or revisionist history, are ever going to change that.
They stood in a circle around her, holding her hands and chanting, it’s a good pill, it’s a good pill, over and over, until I saw her muscles slowly relax and her eyes roll back to a place of belonging.
Fathers and daughters are in a delicate world that is not built strong enough to withstand questions.
Thing is, this a beautiful city, he says. But a lot of people say there is something off here and that it is difficult to connect with others.
raise my glass to these girlfriends who are growing up before my eyes and plotting their own idea of a buffer against those wild and uncertain lands of the future.
She said sometimes it is okay to be looked after.
We don’t need to tell each other where we are going, with who, or when we will be back; we can come and go with the kind of freedom that I had always dreamed of when I was younger.
I keep stepping out thinking I will know where to go, but then all the streets have been rearranged in a different order, so it’s having a trippy effect on my reality.
And finally, to all those who know what it means to have lost so much, because they love so hard.
