CONFESSIONS OF A BROKEN HEART
It is now two years since Ruth’s death…and as you read this many more years are passing; which takes me to what my old teacher, Ross Johnston, said:
“…we need to be able to talk about death, we don’t, we don’t want to, but it is part of living. Living and dying is the same thing really. And somehow or rather in our education system, from cradle to grave, we got to be able to insinuate this into what people are hearing, whether it is on television, whether it is digital, or whatever. I don’t know how to do it. But I can see how vital it is, and a person who knows that they are going to die, it is not to be afraid of. There are ways and means. I talk about death a lot because I’m so close to it. I have no hesitation. I call it death, not passing. I am not passing, I’m dying. Monty Python says, ‘Dead! Dead! Dead!’ like the dead parrot.”
Time passes but death does not.
For those of us who walk in its long shadow, as the time flies by, what is left is only to confess to a broken heart.
Memory and Careers in a Corrupt Economic System
How are we dying? Data from SMH
Ruth at the Turn of the Century
The Importance of the Participation Triple-Video Art Installation and Theory: Neville Socially on a Saturday, Sunday, Friday - Afternoon, Evening, Morning
Being Alone and Urban Space: 4 Conferences, 2 Weeks, 2 Cities
A Moment of Grief: Memory and the Presence
Revelatory and Recovery Moments: Assessing Life’s Journeys and Directions
The Memories – Road Trip Day Gundagai: Neville Still Alive, Ruth as History, the Great Journey we Wanted
Ruth the Squirrel
Letter. Explaining Myself in the Hope of Dialogue, 29 January 2023
Mash of Moby-Pet Shop Boys at the end of the Journey
Oh-oh-oh, you'll know. Memory and Road Trips
More Than This: "I could feel at the time there was no way of knowing" (Nihilism but beyond it)
Here Comes the Rain Again...
Phenomenology of Ruth Memory (also webpage in The History of Ruth story)
Extraordinary Times and the Wisdom of Ages
The Night of Present Moment
The Passing of Uncle Arthur
Destiny and Life
The Memories - Road Trip Day 2: Neville Still Alive, Ruth as History, the Great Journey we Wanted
The Beginning - Road Trip Day 1: Neville Still Alive, Ruth as History, the Great Journey we Wanted
Poetry of a Lonely in the Compassionate Crowd
Dreams, Nightmares, Reality
Rick and Racheal in the Year 2021
My love is in league with the freeway -- There is no turning back on the run
Dreaming and Waking Up
Love, Money, and Life Regrets (To the end of 2020)
Porcelain: The Final Goodbye
Ruth, Always on My Mind
Ruth, Always on My Mind
Hypnotic Habit (Video Version)
Hypnotic Habit
IN MEMORIAM, THE APRIL FOOL WHO WAS NOT, 55 YEARS, FOUR YEARS AGO
Ruth’s Dream State: A Panoramic Vision of Dying and Juxtaposition
A Place Where We Were, and I Am Now
Something in the Nothingness
The Sunset of Being Alive
Life Locally on the Morning of High Winds Elsewhere in Country
Silent Embrace inside the Music, and the Equally Present and the Loss of Presence
Grief and Death
Death in Ruth: A Poem
Stuck Between Life and Death
The Carnival of Love