I read The facts sitting in the armchair in front of the wall of bookshelves in the study upstairs. The room overlooks the park which Rocky and I sometimes cross, along the gravel path past the playground of swings and climbing installations, down to the oval where on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, we stop for a [...]
Rocky and I left the beach and walked to Readings bookshop on Acland Street. The wind blowing into Rocky’s face made him look like he was flying. Acland street on Sunday morning was not congenial, crowded with visitors looking for I know not what, there along the rows of same as each other cafes and clothing shops. In [...]
In what was essentially a childish gesture I know, having made sure that I did not have commitments that would foil my plan, Rocky and I sat on the grassy sand dune at Albert Park beach, more or less in silence but for an occasional exchange of views about whether or not we should walk [...]
Some mornings, if the day is not crowded with obligations, Rocky and I walk down past the St Kilda shoreline which ends, if the tide is out, in a sand bank that goes almost all the way to the small boats anchored along the old wooden jetty that runs at right angles to the St Kilda pier.
Morning is Rocky’s favorite time. I wonder whether it is mine? They have changed me, no doubt, these mornings with Rocky. I rarely contemplate a morning with no sunrise, a dawn without me. My first thought when I wake up, Rocky there beside the bed in the darkness, his white -patched chest and white beard [...]
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