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📷 Photo challenge day 26: bridge.

I’ve used this as a metaphor for writing, but it’s also a real bridge, of which #Sydney has many more than the famous one across the harbour. The image shows the causeway to Bare Island, at the mouth of Kamay, Botany Bay.

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A wooden pier extends over a rocky shoreline at sunset, with a calm body of water and a distant landmass in the background.
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📷 Photo challenge day 29: winding.

It’s well worth taking a look inside White Bay Power Station in #Sydney - as previously seen on day 7 and day 5. Oh, and day 23 last year.

See the whole #mbjune photogrid.

Several hoists with chains are hanging in a workshop setting, featuring a variety of metal components.
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📷 Photo challenge day 28: ephemeral. A reminder that our leaders don’t last forever, or even for as long as they’d like to. I spotted this election button on the very last day the Leura toy museum was open, in the Blue Mountains, just West of #Sydney.

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A political campaign button features the text Nixon Agnew and Vote Republican along with black-and-white portraits of the two men.
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📷 Photo challenge day 27: collective. Rainbow lorikeets are among the most commonly seen #birds in #Sydney.
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Four colorful rainbow lorikeets with vibrant plumage are perched on a railing against a backdrop of leafy trees.
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💬“In these unprecedented times, it’s more important than ever to find better ways to care for and love our neighbors,” - Mon Rovîa.

See also: Who says to care is to disobey?

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📷 Photo challenge day 25: decay.

My worm farm is amazing! By turning waste into compost these little wrigglers perfom a kind of magic.

It’s also a metaphor for my writing process. I don’t worry if the input is rotten. The output will be quite different.

A close-up image of a household worm farm, with a mass of wriggling worms, busy turning food waste into garden compost, as if by magic.

See also: No writing is wasted

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📷 Photo challenge day 24: bloom.

The bougainvillea does get a bit unruly, but it’s probably worth it. #mbjune

Vibrant purple bougainvillea flowers with green leaves climb on a gray trellis.

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📷 Photo challenge day 23: fracture.

A crack in reality at the Edogawa Japanese Garden, north of #Sydney

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Two dense, green bushes are separated by a narrow strip of dark brown mulch.
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Don’t throw away your old notes

Don’t throw out your old notes, even if you feel overwhelmed by them. Here are some helpful ideas on what to do instead.

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💬 Back in 2018 I said “the next Web will be fit for humans”.

And how did that little prediction go? Well, I’ve updated my original post with some reflections.