The History Of Ruth

The Sunset of Being Alive

The Sunset of Being Alive

Image: ID 44055351 © Ysbrand | Dreamstime.com This is how my daytime ended, driving over the high rise of Kessels Road, Robertson, looking out across western Brisbane to the mountain ranges which hid the Brisbane upriver valleys. Coopers Plains below, flat and open...

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Grief and Death

Grief and Death

Viewer warning: material contains tough reflections on life and death. Unsuitable for sensitive souls, those momentary in 'a bad place', and children (as a guide under the age of 12 years of age).   I had these thoughts and feeling some time ago, and I recorded...

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Death in Ruth: A Poem

Death in Ruth: A Poem

the touch that does not feel, the voice that is not heard, the embrace that is not held, the caress that is forever longed for.     <style><!-- [et_pb_line_break_holder] -->.et_post_meta_wrapper img{<!--...

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Stuck Between Life and Death

Stuck Between Life and Death

Frequently, these many years, I say or think to myself, “My life is over”. On its appearance that makes no sense. What I am doing is really asking myself a question, “In a teleological sense, is my life over”? Have I reached a point where I will no longer be able to...

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The Carnival of Love

The Carnival of Love

1 December 2018, just before 5.00 a.m AEST   In a dream from which I would awake, a setting of a carnival, something crossed by the Brisbane Ekka and an American state fair, nothing familiar, only great lights in the night.   In the distance I saw Ruth was...

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