A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Here you can see the view of Lower Sandy Bay from Battery Point, with a seagull lurking in the foreground.

This photo was taken just down the road from the house that I lived in when I first moved to Hobart. I've got to admit that walking past it reminded me just how bloody miserable I was at the time. In fact, I was surprised that - in 2009 - just how miserable I remember being throughout 1996. I'm not sure that I was fully aware of the fact at the time.

They say that the years between 16 and 22 are the best in your life, I'm quite happy to have found out that this is a crock. Thank god for that.

Sleep or no sleep, I think that I have yet to enter my prime.

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Anonymous said…

There are all kinds of sayings and when you are in your 70s, like me and Patty, and retired, it is not the best time either. I don't know of a really great time but it must be in the middle 30s.

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8 January 2009 at 01:32

Debbie Courson Smith said…

I have to agree with Abraham....30s were good. I didn't realize how good they were until they started disappearing, though. I want them back!

8 January 2009 at 02:24

Doc said…

I think the seagull is thinking back to his misspent youth too.

Lovely photo.

Doc

8 January 2009 at 03:25

yournotalone said…

I'm in 30s - not sure if they are good or bad - they are alright. My grandpa is in his mid 80s and he sometimes looks more happy than I am.

8 January 2009 at 06:30

Anonymous said…

No happier time than the present. At 30 something I was happy, today I am content. Is there a difference?

8 January 2009 at 17:41

USelaine said…

I've been miserable and neurotic the whole way through. I'm counting on my 50s to really deliver.

9 January 2009 at 15:38

Kris McCracken said…

Abe, here’s hoping that the middle 30s are it!

Diva, that would be the worst realisation. That’d you figured it out too late!

Doc, it’s a reflective time of the year, I think.

9 January 2009 at 15:43

Kris McCracken said…

Aigars, I would imagine a Latvian man in his eighties has seen a few things over the years!

Roddy, there must be! There has to be damn it!

Elaine, fingers crossed. What happened to the little girl with the curls and green dress?

9 January 2009 at 15:46

Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it...

I still have the robot on the job. Here you can see the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery . And here is a poem: Soliloquy for One Dead Bruce Dawe Ah, no, Joe, you never knew the whole of it, the whistling which is only the wind in the chimney's smoking belly, the footsteps on the muddy path that are always somebody else's. I think of your limbs down there, softly becoming mineral, the life of grasses, and the old love of you thrusts the tears up into my eyes, with the family aware and looking everywhere else. Sometimes when summer is over the land, when the heat quickens the deaf timbers, and birds are thick in the plumbs again, my heart sickens, Joe, calling for the water of your voice and the gone agony of your nearness. I try hard to forget, saying: If God wills, it must be so, because of His goodness, because- but the grasshopper memory leaps in the long thicket, knowing no ease. Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it... I like Bruce Dawe. He just my be my favourite Austral...

There was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong.

Here is a self portrait. I’m calling it Portrait of a lady in a dirty window . Shocking, isn’t it? However, it is apt! Samhain , Nos Galan Gaeaf , Hop-tu-Naa , All Saints , All Hallows , Hallowmas , Hallowe'en or HALLOWEEN . It’s Theme Thursday and we’re talking about the festivals traditionally held at the end of the harvest season. Huh? No wonder Australians have trouble with the concept of HALLOWEEN. For the record, in my thirty-two L O N G years on the planet, I can’t say I’ve ever seen ghosts ‘n goblins, trick ‘n treaters or Michael Myers stalking Tasmania’s streets at the end of October. [That said, I did once see a woman as pale as a ghost turning tricks that looked like Michael Myers in late November one time.] Despite the best efforts of Hollywood, sitcoms, and innumerable companies; it seems Australians are impervious to the [ahem] charms of a corporatized variant of a celebration of the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darke...

In dreams begin responsibilities.

A life at sea, that's for me, only I just don't have the BREAD. That's right, Theme Thursday yet again and I post a photo of a yacht dicking about in Bass Strait just off Wynyard. The problem is, I am yet again stuck at work, slogging away, because I knead need the dough . My understanding is that it is the dough that makes the BREAD. And it is the BREAD that buys the yacht. On my salary though, I will be lucky to have enough dough or BREAD for a half dozen dinner rolls. Happy Theme Thursday people, sorry for the rush.

This will hurt me...

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