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Rosie Dub

Dr Rosie Dub is a novelist (Gathering Storm and Flight), mentor, teacher, developmental editor and facilitator of Centre for Story (www.centreforstory.com), a platform for reimagining the world through story. Rosie has taught creative writing for many years in both the UK and Australia. She currently teaches on the MA in Writing program at Swinburne University in Melbourne. Rosie’s PhD research explored how purpose of story as a developmental tool. She shares her ongoing research in her Alchemy of Story workshop series and her twice monthly Alchemy of Story substack newsletter which explores how story forms us, how it frees us and how we can create our own transformational stories that help to reimagine our world. Rosie lives in Hobart, Tasmania.

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Passing Time


As her son wakes with questions about black holes and infinity, the author follows him into a conversation that bridges astrophysics with ancestry, parenting with cosmic continuity. Interwoven with observations on grief, embodiment, and the passing of days, the piece reminds us that time is not only measured in minutes, but in meaning, and that children often hold the key to remembering how to live in the now.


Published in Volume 25 Issue 4

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For thousands of years, we lived according to the principles of village life. Then, around the 14th Century, our lives were reorganized by rulers around growth and accumulation – often at the cost of community, equity, and the living Earth. What would it mean to return to simplicity, and mutual care?

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