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a summary of summer things…
The year is spinning by so fast I can hardly believe it. Despite recent years of minimising and editing my environment as well as downsizing interaction with social media, days are full and my energy wanes. Sometimes I think the summer here is like winter in the northern hemisphere, a time for stasis, or at…
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a list of lists…
A couple of posts back I gave my book report for 2016 and invited those who were so inclined to give us their recommendations as well. It was probably a busy time of year to try to encourage participation, so I’ve compiled the short list of recommended reading and also found a couple of other…
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please watch this…
Many of you probably already subscribe to or watch TED talks and you may have seen this one. It is informative and uplifting, without being judgemental. If you want to understand, this 20 minute interview is a good place to start.
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old friends, new experiences
We have been in Darwin the past week. I’m still processing the events. Whenever we visit, I am taken back to memories of the first years of my life in Australia. Because we stay in the city, and our first flat was in the city, these are my old stomping grounds! But not. So much…
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Add some zest to your life!
For some reason best known by the Great Universal Intelligence, zest has appeared in my life. Repeatedly. Often. The kind of zest I’m talking about is hanging on trees! I’m always one to follow where my nose and taste buds lead me, for good or for bad. What kind of a friend would I be, not to share…
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In My Kitchen – May
It’s a good thing I take food photos as I go along, because so much happens in a month I completely forget what all we ate! And looking back over the photos there was a lot of red going on too! This was a transitional month In My Kitchen. We moved from summer foods and salads to more…
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Kicking it with Kiki
A few days ago I selected the ‘publish’ button on this post. But you didn’t see it, did you? That’s because, for some reason (operator error!) it didn’t publish. And I’m glad. A few hours after thinking it had published, I wished I had written it differently. Sometimes the Universe and I are on the…
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Go for the Gado!
Phew! The house smells awful this morning. Our ‘house doctor’ is putting the sealer on the outside to protect the rammed earth. This has to be done usually around every 4 years. The product we use is called Rain Coat and it is a silicon based sealer that cleans up with turpentine. All the others…
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Give me a head with hair…
long beautiful hair. Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen… Our hair is given to keep us humble. I have thought as well as repeated this many times in my life. As mine has greyed it has changed texture in places and only gotten more difficult to manage. Does this mean I am more humble? Possibly. More…
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