Let others have the privacy of touching words

The Hobart Waterfront! First time in a while... March 2011.

Here's a sight that used to feature more prominantly on this here blog. It's the one thing that I miss from the last place that I used to work.

On that note, the combination of fixed term contract with a few months left to run and the present uncertainly of a State government vacancy control program means that yet again I am open to offers regarding work.

Anyone out there who needs an all around genius-at-large, let me know!

A Conceit, by Maya Angelou
Give me your hand

Make room for me
to lead and follow
you
beyond this rage of poetry.

Let others have
the privacy of
touching words
and love of loss
of love.

For me
Give me your hand.

Comments

Roddy said…

Either they are getting in early for Christmas or no-one has been able to go aloft and bring it down from last year. The Christmas tree at the top of the mast.
I too have missed your pics of the waterfront.
Who knows, your old employer may pick you up again.
Would you go back to Tobacco, Alcohol and other Drugs?

26 March 2011 at 17:56

Kris McCracken said…

I think I've mixed up my dates. I thought that this one was from the Wooden Boat Festival, but I suspect it is from Christmas.

27 March 2011 at 17:14

Roddy said…

That's ok. It's still a good picture.

29 March 2011 at 17:13

Lost inside an adorable illusion and I cannot hide, I'm the one you're using, please don't push me aside, we could've made it cruising, yeah.

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Hold me now, oh hold me now, until this hour has gone around. And I'm gone on the rising tide, to face Van Dieman's Land

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Happy anniversary baby, got you on my mind

No it is not a webcam, but this photograph was taken a mere forty-five ago on my way in to work. Here you can see a good old fashioned Hobart autumn morning, with the rain pelting down and me getting drenched. This one was taken on the corner of Macquarie and Elizabeth, while I was waiting for the lights to change. Come on Ampelmännchen ! Today is my wedding anniversary, an apparently I need to be showering Jen with leather -related goodies. Va-va-vaVOOM! To you Jennifer, here is a poem I wrote this very morning. Anniversary I love you i love you iloveyouiloveyouiloveyou I LOVE you I love YOU iloveyouiloveyouiloveyou I LOVE YOU iloveyouiloveyouiloveyou Happy anniversary

This will hurt me...

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