Client
Multiple
Service
Feature writing
Date
2020
Journalism
I found out how much I love uncovering a story on my first day as an intern.
I was thrown in to do an interview with a local folk musician, with 12 minutes prep.
That’s just enough time to listen to two songs, skim over an article and write three dot points on a piece of scrap paper, for those wondering.
I got through that interview unscathed and have been excited to share stories since.
Whether it was Imogen from Good Mourning, who shared a surprisingly funny story about spreading her mums ashes in the lush Sydney Botanic Gardens, or Jack Athur who told me about his backcountry ski trip to Racha, Georgia, where he planned to face fresh powder, but instead face the reality of war.
Below are a couple of favourites from throughout those years.
Bridges
“If we can look at the lighter and funnier moments in those darker times, I think it can help.”
One of my favourite stories of Sal’s she told me when we first met. She told me because I haven’t scattered my mum’s ashes yet. She said, “It’s not what you think it is. It’s not this beautiful moment…”
She went to the Botanic Gardens to scatter her mum’s ashes, and she was pouring it onto the flowers, and she said it was this thick, chalky, bath salt stuff, and that it was just sitting on top of the flowers. She was trying to push it in with her foot and people were walking past looking at her like, “What are you doing?” And she’s like, “I’m just scattering my dead mum on the flower bed.” We had a really good laugh at that, and I thought, at least we can laugh about this stuff, because if we can’t laugh at it, what’s the point?
It’s been really important for me to understand it doesn’t have to be all doom and gloom. Grief and joy can co-exist. Life can be a mixture of things. And if we can look at the lighter and funnier moments in those darker times, I think it can help.
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