COMING HOME IS SOMETIMES HARDER THAN LEAVING : our heroine, the prodigal daughter, the wandering highlander islander girl, having run the world over - in 2005 returned to Papua New Guinea Proper for the first time - there she lived a little and loved a little too - in 2007 she landed Closer To Melbourne Than Madang and awoke in 2008 "The Year of Alex" - a year to Reclaim her BestSelf to be a GoodGirl to be Better to be Kinder to HurtHerself Less - by clasping her heart and veering hard left
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money. MOLIERE _____________________________ We join our heroine (that would be me) in Sydney, Australia, having just left her island nation and the capital city where she lived on the largest island a la Sud Pacifica ... Papua New Guinea ... Never fear. Knowing Ricebag, her ability to draw hectic all over the straight lines means it's never going to be a flat or an easy ride. But it does belong to her - all the fuck-ups; all the heartbreaks; all the beauty; all the kindnesses; all the things shared; all the bits of her given away in gladness; all the things meant that can't be unspelt ... all that stuff, all the stuff done and kicked into motion and ground into being and dreamt into film or flushed into smoke ... ricebag is doing it all because she is the engineer of her year.
What's not to love?
posted by islandbaby aka ricebag @ 07:53
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