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A House on Dharug Country

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A House on Dharug Country Denzil Jayasinghe 4 min read · 2 hours ago He has lived here six years now. The house stands in Western Sydney, on the traditional lands of the   Dharug people   — a country of rivers and ridgelines, of open woodland and sandstone patches that catch the late light and hold it for a moment before surrendering to dusk. The land feels older than the suburb, older than the street names, older than the fences that mark ownership. It carries memory in its soil. This is where Denzil chose to begin again. ⸻ The Leaving Before this house, there was another. A large two-storey home in Kellyville — ambitious, symmetrical, almost declarative in its scale. It rose as a statement of arrival. Rooms stacked upon rooms. A staircase that suggested ascent, progress, continuation. But as the landscaping was being completed — turf laid, hedges aligned — the relationship that had framed the house came undone. The structure remained. The future did not. The house became too...
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Pure pleasure with David Bowie

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Pure pleasure with David Bowie Denzil Jayasinghe 4 min read · 1 hour ago D avid Bowie is 24, shimmering with possibility, and he has slipped quietly out of the Sydney night into your small house, still carrying the electricity of the concert on his skin. Press enter or click to view image in full size He shrugs off his jacket and you see the full glory of his Hunky Dory self: long, flowing hair falling over his cheeks, wide–leg, high‑waisted bell‑bottoms, a fitted waistcoat that catches the light, and boots that make a soft, certain thud on your floor. He looks both casual and impossibly composed, as if this outfit is just something he happened to throw on before changing the direction of popular music. You apologise for the simplicity of the meal, and he waves it away with a small, amused tilt of the head, as if to say that paratta and lentils are as good a reason to live as any encore. At the table, the two of you sit close enough to smell the faint mix of sweat, cologne and cigarett...
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