Andrew Sutherland

All weekend a deep, low-pressure system had been pressing inexorably across from the south-east, pushing what slim spring warmth there was upwards, into the chilly ether, until it exploded back to earth in sudden thunder and rain. The weather was not ideal for karaoke, but it did not stop the music at the inaugural Sing for your Dumpling event, held at the Buninyong Uniting Church Community Hall on Sunday, 26 October 2025.  Forty determined souls, jittering with pre-performance nerves,...

I’ve seen things across the span of my nine lives you people couldn’t imagine. Dust motes colliding in a sun beam, shot from high, in the laundry, as I pooped. I have dreamt of the evisceration of birds and purred as you stroked my fur. I have watched the wind from within the living room window for hours, pausing infrequently to lick my paw. But I had never been blessed before. This changed recently when myself and an assortment of other creatures attended the annual blessing of the animals...