Showing posts with label home. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home. Show all posts

Monday

Australia

I'm starting from here, now and working backwards.

I feel as though I've travelled back in time. I've moved back into the old flat, which has my furniture but none of my things in it. Bookshelves with no books, empty walls, the rugs rolled up and stored away. There's no trace of Fred here so it's like it was before, sort of. But my dog isn't here. 

It's a distant, alien familiarity and everything's a little strange..












Tuesday

Coming home

Last Wednesday we drove to Ottawa. On the way home I looked up and saw that the migratory birds were also returning home. Hundreds of them in the sky above us...