This place has lived many lives.

It has held seasons of noise and seasons of hush—years where I wrote every day, and years where I listened more than I spoke. Either way, it has remained my anchor: the page I return to when I want to tell the truth in my own voice.

What’s here is simple:
poems, reflections, and the odd essay.

I don’t write on a schedule.
I write when something lands—and when it does, I leave it here.

Outside this blog, my work has grown into a few connected homes:

Ground Water Publishing is my imprint and creative home base—where I publish my books and photography. I’m building a community-minded space for writers and makers (especially those creating from the edges, the in-between, the far away).
Reveries is a journal that publishes once a week on Substack. It’s difficult to pin down what Reveries is about as it is a continuous dialogue of happenings and thoughts throughout the year. The aim with it though is similar to this space, to build an archive of my own writing and place to practice what that journey looks like as I grow older.

This space remains what it has always been: a hearth more than a platform. It will keep changing as I do.

Comments are open, but never expected.
I’m grateful for presence, not performance.
Resonance matters more than frequency.

There’s no map here. No theme.
Just a thousand bits of paper—
scattered, gathered, and left behind
for anyone passing through.

If you’d like to reach out, email me at kate@groundwaterpublishing.com.au.