Stories

June 9, 2019 - Flipper Girl View The Plank

Flipper Girl’s future lay beyond the plank.

June 8, 2019 - Flipper Girl – To The Rescue No More

As the catch of responsibility drifted out of the saving, there was little left for Flipper Girl to do except wonder beyond the fishbowl of seriously fogged goggles.

(Flipper Girl Series appears in Clunk & Jam book, 2019).

Footnote:

Flipper Girl arrived in 2015.   Taking responsibility for others, or when others don’t take responsibility for what they’ve done, can be heavy business.  Until someone like Flipper Girl taps you on the shoulder and says;  “Hey, it’s not your fault.”  And takes you on a trip to a new place….

April 26, 2019 - Wisdoms of Rose Happy Free

Rose was free from the labour of smiling .

Rose is void of any necessity to feel something she doesn’t – like eternal happiness.  She’s actually quite comfortable within a full and complex range of emotions and how, where and when they may appear on her face, in mind – or in public.  Rose feels no obligation to make miraculous recoveries from emotional disturbances either.  Long Live Rose.

Footnote:  Imagine if more people felt more comfortable saying how they really felt, and more people felt more comfortable listening to (and accepting) how others feel.  We might all feel a little better – and less uncomfortable about feeling (and revealing) our true emotions.

(Wisdoms of Rose and Clunk & Jam, 2019 books.  Reposted from 2013).

April 25, 2019 - The Red Tree

Short Film from book, The Red Tree, by Shaun Tan.

April 25, 2019 - The Drop

The Drop .

Imagine a lift – dropping.  Air is pinched tight through the holding breath.  Stomach pressing against throat’s base.   Your footing – gone.   You’re falling into a moment lost.   Trapped in time, travelling at lightening speed towards a target.  And you know what lies at its centre.   You wish, like you’ve wished time and time before, for a floor in the falling.   A line securing reality to an altered mind.  To hold you suspended from the end.   Mark a path back.  And then … you turn the corner and you’re back where the drop began.  Landing on a returned breath.  Stunned by its convincing lie.

Footnote:   Reposting for ANZAC day for those who experience PTSD.  Art (original in colour) by Harley (Manifold).

April 14, 2019 - Flipper Girl – Mind Your Buckets

Tired of moving mountains, Flipper Girl settled for being strategically productive, leaving all responsibility (not of her own kind) up the muddy creek.

(Clunk & Jam book, 2019 Edition).