Jun
30
2011
Tea and orchids
Mid June brings with it two things: the shortest (and usually coldest) day of the year, and the anniversary of my 21st birthday. And both of these are excellent reasons to have tea.
May
8
2011
April Showers
Apparently “April showers bring May flowers” is a well known expression in the Northern hemisphere, and seems to indicate that they are more aware of the treachery of April than I have been. April, in a word, “sucked”, and I’m boycotting it – hence the date on this post! It wasn’t pretty. I won’t bore you with a full list of the ills attributable to this fickle month, but I do want to tell you about the end of my love affair with my car. Continue reading
Feb
28
2011
Bend.
On Sunday evening the Barefoot man and I were in the car on the way to watch “The King’s Speech”, (highly recommended, as I’m sure you’ve heard) when I happened to look up at the streetlamp hanging high above us at the intersection and noticed that it was actually moving in a wide arc above us as the wind pummeled it around. It’s always a bit disconcerting to find that things that you thought were pretty stable are actually quite mobile, so I commented on it to my Barefoot man who said wisely, as he is wont to do, “Well, its better to bend than to break.”
Indeed.
A lesson I learnt when I decided to leave corporate life instead of hit the wall – quite a good decision so far, I think.
And it happened again recently on my first multi-day hiking experience.
Jan
26
2011
The Sandcastle Rules
January is one of those months that I find comes screaming out of the corners at me full tilt when I’m still trying to hold on to the slippery wondrousness of time at leisure in wonderful places. Continue reading
Oct
26
2010
The Thing About Names
At the foot-end of our bed is a modern wooden cube-styled wooden table on which I keep things I like to look at and that make me think.
It occurred to me yesterday that we easily judge people by what they have in their houses, and what they choose to put on display. It’s kind of an extension of Winston Churchill’s thinking when he said “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” We shape the spaces we exist in, and thereafter they often define and shape who we are, and I suspect who people think we are too.