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Written 16 May, 2020<\/p>\n

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I wake up to a silvery morning.<\/p>\n

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The house at the bay’s end has just been bought by T. \u00a0One day I was rowing slowly across the bay, dipping my oars in deep, pulling hard but easily, and he came up behind in his motor boat and asked if I wanted a push! I loved that. No one else here has been so jolly. In New York and London, he’s a famous entertainer, but here, I hope he’ll just be a good neighbour. I peeped in his windows the other day with A. He’s painted the walls my favourite blue. A tells me his house, once as much in the Arctic Circle as ours, is now toasty warm so his old mother can visit. \u00a0Yesterday I emailed him asking what magic he’s done. Today he’s emailed back, inviting us to tea or wine. I’ll wear my video top, and borrow K’s snow trousers, the only warm but elegant thing in our house. I want to arrive in my rowboat, but is GG bendy enough to get in it? And am I superwoman enough?<\/p>\n

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Later: He isn’t. I’m not. I pick T a bunch of the everlasting sorrel leaves, upright and bursting with green freshness but somewhat snail holed. They’re rather like green rabbit ears. \u00a0 We \u00a0agree to walk around the track. On the way, A invites us to pick their rocket or otherwise it’ll go to seed, I know it’s third generation and will be too spicy for us but I add it to T’s bouquet, and N stops us to talk about the rain, no better than dust. Ad is chatting to him, with Tilly the dog. He thanks me for leaving the flowers for his wife.<\/p>\n

Is she liking living here?<\/em><\/p>\n

He assures me she is.<\/p>\n

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T’s house is full of light, azure and white light, and we sit in sunshine on his deck and drink tea, and get to know him. Everything is new, fresh, clean and enviably uncluttered, chairs aligned, cushions positioned. He shows us his boatshed, \u00a0hanging companionably over the river, with huge raffia lounging divans that on a hot day, you’d lie in them with your feet almost in the river. He tells us that he’s had them for 20 years, but at last they’ve found their iright home. I’m relieved that the chair’s legs are unravelling.<\/p>\n

How old is your mother?<\/em><\/p>\n

She’s 75. I need to look after her.<\/em><\/p>\n

I don’t like to point out we’re pretty old too.<\/p>\n

He’s the perfect neighbour, bonding with us both, GG over shoulder reconstructions (he’s had two), me over lighting fires in 44 gallon drums, affable, amiable, offering help, asking for help. He says he explored \u00a0the upper reaches of our creek but turned around, scared, for it’s true, \u00a0you could easily get lost amongst the mangroves and never find your way out. \u00a0But on the right tide, if you know your way, it’s heaven. We offer to take him on Monday to heaven.<\/p>\n

I get home to find an email reminding me about a chapter on creativity I promised I’d finish by June. Instead i \u00a0drag bits of the old water tanks half way down to the pontoon, put a garlic and fennel chicken dinner on the BBQ, set the fire in the pot belly, pour myself a gin and tonic, and only when it’s dark and cold, do i start work.<\/p>\n

But overnight, an email reminder of what’s going on in the \u00a0world from S in New York:<\/p>\n

Dear Sue,<\/em><\/div>\n
I pretty much fell down the rabbit hole after watching Dr. Bright give his testimony. (https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/may\/14\/rick-bright-testimony-coronavirus-trump-ousted-whistleblower)<\/em><\/div>\n
How on earth was the White House so dismissive of what he had to say, the facts he gave?https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/may\/14\/rick-bright-testimony-coronavirus-trump-ousted-whistleblower Why did they hide these facts from the public? Why did they demote him? What nation am I living in? One more dedicated public servant excoriated for speaking truth to power. I am living in a country with way too many people who value their skewed sense of freedom to do whatever the hell they want over the liberty of us all to have rule by law, respect for truth over lies,\u00a0\u00a0belief in science, and a federal government that does its job for us rather than politicians\u2019\u2019 greed and self interest… Without those values we will go under. I think we are going under, Sue.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Every day I wonder how many of us will die unnecessarily because of these stupid stupid people egged on by the evilest, most ignorant president our nation has ever known. Why him and a pandemic, too. The perfect storm.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Meanwhile I keep writing and rewriting thus book about Poe and his wife, and death. I keep weaving and unravelling it, afraid to stop for I fear it will have no home and that will just magnify the uselessness, the powerlessness I feel. It is hard to believe my life matters anymore. On the street with all the people without masks shoving by, it is easy to believe we don\u2019t matter because they make it clear we are old and they want to get on with life, no matter who or what dies along their way.<\/em><\/div>\n
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She’s living through a nightmare far worse than the one we ran away from, and \u00a0tomorrow morning will be far from silvery for her.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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