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INFINITE GALAXIES

MY 70 YEARS SPENT CONNECTED TO THE OUTDOORS HAS LEFT ME WITH AN ALTERED PERSPECTIVE OF WHERE I STAND IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS.

the outdoors started with a baptism of sorts. The moment of my dunking was recorded in a photograph taken by Mum. I’m up to my shoulders in the Mataura River, staring back at the camera across the current and stones of the riverbed. Dad stands over me, looking down at

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