Feb 7, 2014 | Belonging, Interesting Ephemera
”Do you understand the sadness of geography?’’ Michael Ondaatje The English Patient It doesn’t feel like summer in the Blue Mountains. A cool change has come through the small town of Katoomba. The rolling mists and rain of yesterday are gone. The clouds remain....
Feb 5, 2014 | Belonging, Interesting Ephemera
”We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behaviour and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it.’’ Lawrence Durrell (The Alexandria Quartet) I am at Varuna, a house for writers in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. A friend...