HeyJaredThe Bowerbird
Writing, books, the creative life - all the stuff that makes my brain buzz
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Three writing trinkets (opens the original)
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Seemingly while we were sleeping, the garden has wilded. Moon-booted, I haven’t been able to negotiate the slope and the wonky earth of our gardens and so around every corner there are plants blooming and trees fruiting and each surprise is a delight (although the oxalis is a never-ending nightmare). Over the rock wall my beloved father-in-law, now passed, built with my husband, the nasturtium has tumbled, those vivid orange and yellow flowers punctuating the green. <a class="image-link image2 i
Gathered (opens the original)
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Despite the general madness of the world; this gentle sun and stretching light is a balm after some stompy (one-legged) and sulky weeks here. I finally let go of the first 10k words of the new novel I’d been clinging to but which I know in my bones are not part of the book I want to write (no, I didn’t delete them, just popped the whole document into the ‘morgue’ folder and started a new one). I’m now gently tending to this new version; coaxing the tiny flame of it to catch on the kindling of st
Three writing trinkets (opens the original)
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I’ve been eager to share with you some little morsels of writing wisdom I’ve been collecting over the past couple of weeks. I’ve also been looking forward to putting this post together - a good sign that my creative chops (like my ankle strength) are growing steadily stronger. When I first began this newsletter I was deep in my PhD (never-completed!) and thinking about the idea of ‘bowerbirding’ - a phrase I’d long used to try and describe my collecting of ideas and words and images as part of m
Beautiful, beautiful constraints (opens the original)
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Thank you for your beautiful messages and advice on slowing down after my last post. Some of you emailed me and I haven’t got back to you all, but please know how much I appreciate you sharing your own stories and wisdom and advice.Two other things helped immensely in this last week. The first was being able to get back to pilates. Oh, the joy of sweating! And moving! Wonderful Mel at Hurstbridge Pilates & Yoga has been so supportive in getting me back to the studio, modifying things so I can wo
Rupture (opens the original)
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Dearest Bowerbirders - it has been some time. There are at least eight draft posts sitting here - one from December last year! A thank you for being so lovely about The Hiding Place, a bunch of reading recommendations, one about toad-busting on Magnetic Island, one about forest-bathing and cave-dwelling over in Margaret River, one from the Isle of Harris…they all finish at the end of the first paragraph because I could never get over the line of deciding what the point of what I was sharing with
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