Category: Monthly lists
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March thoughts
Inside a tumble dryer this month turned me inside out upside down flip flop round and round. Big long stretches of deliberate, generous quiet; mad long days and giddy shrill nights; endless working days and the few first how are you feeling about leavings building slowly slowly quivering piccolo notes and louder now, crescendo crush, heading…
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The Timor-Leste list
Would I be my giant sooky self if I didn’t make an ambitious list of final things to do before I leave Timor-Leste? I made a similar list at the end of the the year-ish I spent living in Melbourne — a long, thorough, and consulted list, peppered with suggestions from friends who loved and…
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Here, more than anything: On two years in Timor-Leste
At the bottom of the blog post I wrote yesterday, on the first of this month, on the first day of the last month I’ll spend living here in Timor-Leste, I pasted in a scrap of a lyric that read I want to be here more than anything. A simple, clear and true reflection of the…
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February thoughts
Remember how you handed me a cherry blossom, starts the first sentence of the last paragraph of Leah Jing’s poetic tender bruised essay blossom, the last thing I read today, the first day of March, the last full month I’m here before I go home, drenched already in sweet blush-pink nostalgia; turning my thoughts to missing…
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January thoughts
Hello, February. I’ve been back in Dili after my end-of-year trip to Perth for just shy of three weeks, but it already feels like months — this is a very, very good place to settle back into. While my dizzy declarations at the end of last year that I’d be working less and taking more…
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19 things for 2019
Several years in a row, my friend Fiona has set a numbered list of goals or intentions for the new year, linking the number of goals with the year. Nineteen things for 2019, this year. After our coffee-shop reflection the other day, I finished a list of my own. This blog doesn’t quite feel the…
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2018: In summary
My friend Fiona and I are sitting at the very back table at my favourite Perth coffee shop, Satchmo, on this last day of 2018, preparing to set our goals and intentions for the new year. She’s written out a long, thoughtful list of prompts in her journal; I’ve suddenly decided I need to spend…
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2018: Favourite blog posts
I’ve written 83 posts on this blog this year, which feels like a lot. If you’re like, hey, I wonder what Sophie got up to this year, but wow I don’t want to have to look through all her posts, here’s a list of some of my favourite blog posts from 2018, broken into four…
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November, an update
After living underwater for three months, I’m back with a quick monthly update of daily life in Dili, Timor-Leste. Here’s what I got up to in November. In November, I rested The month started with a four-day-long long weekend, for All Saints’ and All Souls’ days–and I repeated last year’s tradition of being too exhausted…
Sophie Rai Liur 