In Sydney Harbour...the yachts will be racing on the crushed diamond water under a sky the texture of powdered sapphires. It would be churlish not to concede that the same abundance of natural blessings which gave us the energy to leave has every right to call us back.
Clive James (Unreliable Memoirs 1980)
Emma, Michael and the boys took themselves off to Sydney for a few days last week. While there, they went on the Sydney Writers' Walk which consists of plaques on the street. Each plaque has information about the writer and a quotation from one of the writer's works. Here is the quotation from the Kylie Tennant plaque.
To be born is to be lucky. Later, life may prove a failure or success, depending on the outlook of whoever is living it; but that life is there should be a matter of congratulation daily renewed...
Ride on Stranger
The photograph above is of the hut she worked in.
