Adieu

I'm off to the country for what's left of the weekend. My mate Julien is down from the top end. He came down for Jesse's funeral and that was the only time any of us saw him. He is in the Northern Territory working with indigenous Australians, of which he is one himself. We're best friends, we've lived together off and on. It'll be good to see him.

Mark picked me up from the station, as we drove home he said,
Wasn't it sad about Belinda?
Do I know a Belinda, I thought. Belinda who? I said.
Belinda Emmett died this morning.
Oh. I felt genuinely sad.
To have found the love of your life and then to lose her, my heart goes out to Rove.