Our forbears knew the importance of a local cemetery. Not just the practicality of it: dead bodies need interment. Not just for the ritual: the business of saying good-bye; of mourning, eulogising and memorialising. A cemetery also reminds us of our spot on the continuum of life; and confronts us with the riddle of an after-life…
This article appeared in the Mudgee Guardian on 28 July 2014.
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A Local Cemetery
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Four things about me. I like reading, writing, researching and living in the country. In particular I like living at Kandos, where we have been for more than a decade. I have deep roots in this part of the country. My mother spent her early life in Kandos. My father was born at Rylstone. My grandparents were pioneers of Kandos and Rylstone. And I was born at Lue - and went to school in Mudgee. The history of this area excites me and I would like to share it with you.
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