Playing With Water by Kate Llewellyn

Author:Kate Llewellyn [KATE LLEWELLYN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780730449997
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

A letter also came from Betty, my neighbour at Leura, on holiday at a shack at Valla Beach. (Bill, her 85-year-old husband, wrote last week that he was reading her War and Peace.)

This afternoon, we sat for a while on a high headland [Betty wrote]. A calm sea sent low curling rollers towards the beach in rows of white frills. One day last week we were sheltering among the dunes, eating sandy sandwiches. The wind was strong and the sea wild, beating the shore with thumping great waves—the pounding heart of the ocean. An old fisherman hailed us. He wore a close-fitting beanie, knitted in broad bands of blue and white, the exact colours of foam and sea. The fine ivory sand was a perfect mount for such a picture.

And yesterday it was different again, no wind at all. We walked for an hour northwards, sloshing along in the water, watching sea hawks circling high overhead. No other creature at all to be seen anywhere. We sat on a rotten sea-soaked log and peeled oranges and prayed aloud for my brother Vincent in hospital emergency, a double by-pass. We walked back noting the strange patterns in the sky—fine white shreds, as if the frayed ends of a silk tassel were brush-stroking the indigo sky. And again, whilst still on sky scenes and such—each early waking morning I lie in bed and look out through the arch formed by two giant old paperbarks and know it’s time for the birds to commence wheeling over the distant sky towards the dark mountains, out to sea and around again, over and over. They keep it up for ages and remind me of Bill out in the kitchen stirring the porridge. Do not give up on your book. Remember we are all clowns.

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