Michael Gawenda is one of Australia's best known journalists and writers. Rocky is his small furry dog of indeterminate breeding, a mutt in other words. Rocky and Gawenda have been in a relationship for more than two years, since Rocky was eight weeks old and Gawenda just a bit older than that. They are best friends who are engaged in a conversation about dogs and love and memory and the meaning of work and the passing of time.Their relationship has matured in some unexpected ways. Rocky taught Gawenda how good it is to live in the moment. It is not clear what Gawenda has taught Rocky except that human beings can be moody and capricious and lost in their own thoughts. This record of their relationship, which was originally a popular blog, is funny, joyous, sad at times, and full of delightful surprises. It is a celebration of the love that developed between a dog and his human friend.
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Rocky And Gawenda
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Walking the dog
- Middle-class Rocky
- The meaning of dogs
- Early morning grieving
- Rocky, rawhide bones and a different world
- Rocky speaks truth to power
- Gemma and Treacle and Rocky and the passing of time
- The good and bad of complex mornings
- In bed with Kevin
- Rocky, Woody Allen and the meaning of life
- The sound and the fury
- A still-life morning
- Dill cucumbers and global warming
- The meaning of hope
- Twilight time
- The rewards of kindness
- Divine light
- Sunrise lost
- Divine light memories
- The windmills of your mind
- What’s in a name
- When you’re a stranger
- A dog’s life
- Remembrance of things past
- You never walk alone
- The boats at Station Pier: part I
- The boats at Station Pier: part II
- Philip Roth on Acland Street: part I
- Philip Roth on Acland Street: part II
- The truth about Bono Wiener
- Long pants, Elvis and the dogs of childhood
- Gawenda my father
- Henry Miller and the end of logical positivism
- Kevin Rudd and the mystery of flying
- A Rocky by any other name
- Life in an Australian shtetl
- Postscript
- Acknowledgements
- Permissions
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