The morning opens heavy and grey. Dark smudges of cloud fill the sky, thick and stagnant, lighter in the east where the morning sun is filtered and confined to a dull constant. There is a sense of the suns presence, but the dense blanket has defeated the raging luminosity. All is damp with an enveloping …
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So here’s a nasty little gash in the West Australian coastline, where the ocean water surges and boils. The waves brutally invade the small beach before retreating again, only for the thin strip of sand to be reconquered by the next violent roller. The water, whipped by a constant south-westerly, heaves in before sucking back …
Song lyrics keep ringing through my head. There’s the one about six days on the road and making it home tonight, but the main one is from Neil Murray. In his song ‘Good Light in Broome’, he tells the hard-bitten story of a bloke struggling through his life, limping from one disaster to the next …
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