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Curve-alicious…
Saddened but somehow, oddly, uplifted this week by Oscar Neimeyer’s passing… I seem to be surrounded by death at the moment… 104! and what a legacy… working until almost the end and such fantastic architecture… “When you have a large space to conquer, the curve is the natural solution,” he said. “I once wrote a poem […]
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Time out…
The news of Brubeck’s death yesterday and copious postings of Take 5 on Facebook had me hurtling down the long and winding road of memory, back to the very early 80s… to happy days of youth, rebellion and innocence… To carefree spring days where we skipped school and hung out in the town square, before […]
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Jokerman dance to the nightingale tune…
The news arrived in a text message… it wasn’t a surprise but it hit hard. I wrote about my friend Ian in an earlier post and the news was about his passing… before we made peace and I will forever regret that I did not contact him sooner. Grief is a terrible thing, a powerful […]
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Speculum of the other woman: myself as object…
I go through phases of frequently changing my profile pic on Facebook. It’s a little odd even to me; partly a fascination with the ageing process but also curiosity about what being a woman is all about. I never looked in mirrors when I was in my twenties; somewhat ironic as much of that period […]
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In the hammock with Anais…
Anybody else tried Pinterest yet? J’adore! I have an offline inspiration board and am thrilled to have something for all those things I find online that I love… I post a lot of them on facebook, to share with friends but they get a little lost on the timeline and I can never find anything […]
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Mindfulness…
I love Mashable and not just because Pete is such a cutie or because they have things like ‘popcorn hour’… but because they have such great content, like this: http://mashable.com/2012/04/13/tumblr-who-needs-feminism Content you want to share. So I shared it with my friends on facebook of course but it also reminded me that I had a blog… […]
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Ready, set, go…
well, actually i set off a couple of years ago but it’s taken a while to get this going… and now that it’s created, not so sure where to begin… will have to have a think 😉
foxonthego
let the beauty of what you love be what you do ~ rumi