It’s like the tectonic plates that make up the landscape of my life are shifting; a flood of constant swaying and upheaval, yet somehow intensified in this time. 

The elements that constitute the familiar; welcoming landmarks that give me a sense of North, an understanding of where I am and the security these give, are being uprooted and melted into molten variability. 

The Scenic Rim’s cradle that has held me and rocked me to sleep is melting into the background, reduced to a fond memory. 

The safe house of glass and grass disappeared long ago- or maybe was always fragile. 

The house of colour and secret gardens and sunshine and shadows left years ago; moved out. 

Now I am grown up- and the nests of old are fraying as each season comes and goes and the wind pulls at its strings. 

Shalom. 

Aren’t we all just trying to make sense of our lives? Those moments when you find yourself sitting on the floor, staring blankly into the carpet. 

I miss your face, our once endless conversations; but there’s no longer ache to it like there was. There’s some vague feeling akin to fond memory, like looking at an old photograph and smiling at what has changed. Like those pathways in your house you can do without the lights being on from pure daily repetition; the space of floor between the window and the bed, the kitchen and the door, a feeling likened to how your feet remember the way by sheer touch of the surface against your soles. Old paths. And yet at the fringes there exists a taint of something sombre; like the smoke left over from the fleeting moments of a candle being extinguished. Moments that seem to waft on into the present. It cannot not exist here. It’s now threads woven into the fibres of my consciousness. 

I stopped believing it was possible. I want to hope again. 

I notice the curve of light hitting the earth has shifted in the small time I been here. When I arrived the city was clothed in thick darkness even to nine in the morning….a puzzling thing I have never encountered. The depth of January nights spanning so long. And in the months past…February and now March…the shadows creep further away and the sun rises by seven now. Such change in such time…a blessing. A place that is so fertile in change, fluent in shifting; light, colour, snow, sun. The elements cast a shadow of what is possible; a rapid variation of the basics can’t help but imply the plasticity of my life also…from the sunny shoreline of eastern Australia to the snow-dusted legoland of Denmark; the shift in heart and feeling…the shift in thoughts and sureties; like water shifts over rocks in the mountain streams of my homeland. And it’s encouraging; the promise of spring held within each enclosed bud I see; each person I see with such stories untold within their eyes. Its perfect…perfection within the cold travelling wondering heart of mine.