Janice Sim
@lishen_sim
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Academic, writer, painter, researcher on intersections of the socio-legal, child protection, filicide, representations, maritime & state interventions
Kombumerri land
Joined November 2014
Delighted to feel my painting so deeply in this thought provoking issue of One Imperative by @jfwearspink, my retake on 'Pull My Finger, Johnny'.. with greatest gratitude seeing my painting alongside these amazing writers, may you too feast with merry eyes, happiest Christmas 🎄
really happee to announce a new issue of 'One Imperative' .... wheeeeeee ! with much gratitude to all of the writers, thinkers, makers, poets, artists, photographers, who were part of the madness ... <3 you can download your copy of 'Found | Lost' here : https://t.co/izQwdB9gSp
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“There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.” ✍️Lord Byron
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows – an imaginative lexicon of words for things we feel but cannot name – is one of the 3 books I most often give as presents that most readily delight the recipient:
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“Despite what dictionaries would have us believe, this world is still mostly undefined.”
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This 'Aussie Christmas tree' photo is doing the rounds again, usually without attribution. It was taken by Layn Simpson of Gympie, in his backyard. An excellent snap. I have an invitation to visit next time I'm in Gympie 😀 You can find Layn on Instagram. Worth a follow.
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I want to be sad, but who has the time? Xin Qiji, tr. Jon Hansen
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What failure still keeps you Among us the unfinished W.S. Merwin (the Lice)
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Sometimes living feels like this. You live your life, but the context is missing. You think it’s the context that you need. But when it arrives, there’s too much story and violence. —Victoria Chang, from "No. 21"
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Ways to free ourselves of binary choices..more integration, less renunciation..
Beyond either/or – Kierkegaard on the key to resetting relationships
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"And what does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits out quantity." - William S. Burroughs
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thinking again about this astonishing Mary Ruefle erasure of Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
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Louise Glück ♥️ “I speak / because I am shattered.” Always revisiting this poem.
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“I’ve been out there, and sitting on a rock, and you can hear the chatter (of the old people), the yabber going on and there’s nobody there, but you can hear it.” I have experienced this. https://t.co/PjTgiHQ8El
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Aboriginal site featuring ancient quarry sits on transcontinental trading route connecting Gulf of Carpentaria to Flinders Ranges
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Really? Must try!
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I do not like the pressure to laugh It is like being strangled With an invisible twine I will only laugh when it is true I will only laugh when my body feels Like it would otherwise disintegrate —Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi, from "he is going to have to take it"
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