a gesture...

 

this day

 one year ago

Justin McGovern

a vibrant, sporty, ragamuffin teen from our little town

was walking home

in the early hours of a foggy Sunday morning

when a few hundred metres from his home

he was struck by a vehicle

that did not stop

...

Justin died in the middle of the road 

before help could be summoned

.... 

a year has passed

 and still no one has come forward to claim responsibility 

....

 

 

I left a paper heart by the cross that sits next to the road

....

 

 

 

carpe diem 2013 - 1

 three map index 'feathers'

 stack of decomposing Colliers encyclopaedias

one rock

cloudy day

..

week 52...

one volume of Encyclopaedia Britannica,
one candle in a jar, one cross

Cobargo Cemetery

....

week 51...

one page from a Readers Digest novel 

folded and pamphlet bound with horse's hair 

taken from found birds nest

cupped in the nest-finder's hands

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week 50...

On the 12th day of the 12th month in the 12th year of the twenty first century...

family and friends gathered on the windy beach 

to witness the marriage of our gorgeous niece - T.N. to her wonderful man - M.E.

I commemorate the moment with outstretched hand and red-edged book

and capture the spirit of the day on the beach...

one red covered, red edged book

on Camel Rock beach, Bermagui

one bride, one groom, 

four bridesmaids, four groomsmen, one flower girl, one page boy,
one happy crowd of family and friends

12.12.12

Curse on all laws but those which love has made!
Love, free as air at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Alexander Pope  

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week 49...

 

book midden

on the creek bed confluence of Sams and Narira creeks

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week 48

'Cassell's Modern Encyclopaedia'

a mother's gift - 1941

wrapped in a ball of my handspun tussah silk from 1991

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