Here shall I rest
Cemeteries. I've loved visiting them for so many years. As a young child from the age of around 10, I'd spend a large amount of time in a local cemetery situated a close walk from my home. I'd take a novel or a drawing pad and pencils and spend many happy hours walking around.
Undisturbed, untroubled, a place of peace to enjoy the flora and fauna and especially to ponder the lives and history of those gone before, the world they left behind. In awe of the artistry and poetry of gravestones, mausolea.
And as the years have passed, I've found myself drawn to spending time in cemeteries across the globe, three favourites being Père Lachaise in Paris, Isola di San Michele in Venice and Highgate back home in London.
So I found myself in Rookwood recently, Sydney's largest cemetery, opened in 1867. I spent a while visiting friends, family and others now departed.
'Respect, reflect, remember'.
(Rookwood is the largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere).
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Here shall I rest
Cemeteries. I've loved visiting them for so many years. As a young child from the age of around 10, I'd spend a large amount of time in a local cemetery situated a close walk from my home. I'd take a novel or a drawing pad and pencils and spend many happy hours walking around.
Undisturbed, untroubled, a place of peace to enjoy the flora and fauna and especially to ponder the lives and history of those gone before, the world they left behind. In awe of the artistry and poetry of gravestones, mausolea.
And as the years have passed, I've found myself drawn to spending time in cemeteries across the globe, three favourites being Père Lachaise in Paris, Isola di San Michele in Venice and Highgate back home in London.
So I found myself in Rookwood recently, Sydney's largest cemetery, opened in 1867. I spent a while visiting friends, family and others now departed.
'Respect, reflect, remember'.
(Rookwood is the largest necropolis in the Southern Hemisphere).
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