Memories – tania j layden

Journey into exile.

Narratives of exile and displacement have generally been recounted in terms of group identity, geopolitics, facts and figures while individual rites of passage which provide insight into the lived experiences are often overlooked. This paper considers various modes of narratives to assess the veracity of history and how it unfolds to serve the “convenience of those who make use of it”

Waiting…..

Negotiating my way along the perimeter of a huge void.

Ashes to sea

Yesterday I travelled to Sunshine Beach to scatter some of M’s ashes into the sea. I hadn’t planned on doing this. We were such itinerants that no one place seemed to be “our place” so I had organised to send half of his ashes to his daughters in Melbourne and half to his family inContinue reading “Ashes to sea”