Drawn to Rock

Drawn to Rock

Audrey is putting it all together. At age 16 she is still in Year 11 at high school. She was learning the piano for a year, she says. She also tried the recorder and ukulele. “I did choir too. Nothing ever really stuck. I wrote a couple of songs. None of them had...
One Great Gift Deserves Another

One Great Gift Deserves Another

Working in tandem with the Street Side Medics service Addi Road is seeing a new kind of customer and many more people in need. The working poor, the unemployed and the homeless moving ever closer together. Judy has noticed this change in what is going on too. She...
Restoration, Community, Unity

Restoration, Community, Unity

The need to communicate; the images and texts that fade away as fast they arrive; the contacts and messages that never answer something within us… Modern life can feel isolating and overwhelming, rushing nowhere. Restoring a little strength and unity to how we...
Little Birds

Little Birds

Addi Road Food Pantry here in Marrickville is closing for another day. A barefoot schoolboy nearby, standing behind a tree, makes high calling sounds. “Is that a bird? Is that a bird?” a couple of women call out, as if they can’t see him.   Our volunteers are shutting...