what did you see today : 1 : shane

today i saw shane's beautiful face leaning across the front seat of his dad's battered blue mondeo, smiling and calling up to me from the bottom of my garden

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6 years ago, one sydney summer night (read: perfection) squatting in the sunken middle of the faded second-hand fold-out 3-seater, set out in my superb enmore flat with woo and the scots and irish traipsing through our 3rd bedroom, i watched a movie. a rented video. i watched a movie where a blonde girl from the henderson kids (beaut after-school aussie tv in the 80s) living in marrickville (in the movie) asked her own flatmate (in the movie) this question every day : WHAT DID YOU SEE TODAY

and the flatmate was required to give a one sentence answer. just one sentence. to describe one thing. one thing they saw. that day.

that day, the answer to her question was : "i saw a goth eating an icecream".

after seeing that scene, i started writing down one line sentences of "what i saw today" in a small cheap black notebook with The Cross imprinted on the inside plastic sleeve. that notebook is the most precious thing i have from my last year at university - not as useful as my degrees - but of all the tens of thousands of words i wrote, it was probably the most beautiful thing i created that last semester.

and it made me see. every day. one thing.

so i am starting again. to keep a record of "what i saw today".

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