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“In The Right Light, At The Right Time. Everything Is Extraordinary. ” ―...
The light hitting the puddle (and the glow of the cloud) looks better on my phone, but it's still a reminder there is beauty in everything if you are really looking.May the sun be shining through the...
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Invisible
I have written a lot about with age you grow a cloak of invisibility that allows you to move through places unnoticed. However recently, that went to a new level. At Hot Dub I was standing in line for...
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Christmas is coming....
No matter where you look, it is definitely the Festive Season.Businesses have glamorous trees.Linking with #WeekendReflectionLocal gardens have gone with simple tree baubles or the whole hog.Even the...
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The sun shines into the eye and the heart
To paraphrase and distort Ralph Waldo Emerson. Linking with #WeekendReflectionI'd been very stressed when I rushed to the Opera House to see the fabulous Lee Fields. I did have enough time for my...
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“I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the...
AA friend who has had a very rough time this year was dealt another blow. She asked if I was superstitious. I said intellectually I wasn't. I knew it wasn't true but I would often 'fix my karma' and do...
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Last #Allseasons for the year.
This #Allseasons post will be open for 2 weeks, instead of one, and then the blog will be shut until mid Jan. Keep an eye on my Insta if you want to see travels in Japan.Linking with...
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December Reading
Fun Home - This is a graphic novel but dealing with some very complex family dynamics. She links parrallels and quotes both Camus and Fitzgerald, both of home I loved. It deals with suicide and...
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“All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don't come back.”
On Saturday night we dressed in our finest evening and 1920's gear and headed in search of the green light, and the rumours and gossip on one of Gatsby's fabulous parties. The show is from the people...
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Watching the Christmas Traditions disappear...
I have written before about the fading Christmas traditions as the kids grow up so I'll try not to repeat myself, but there is a bittersweet element to some of them now, knowing that it's probably the...
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Share Four Somethings - the last one.
Something I'm Loving Every year we head off to the Furnace & the Fundamentals Christmas show, which is this crazy festive gig where the words of songs have been changed to Christmas theme and...
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Pick of my posts - 2023
A quick look back on the year through the blog.My favourite from January was Take time to find out what your dreams are on excatly that! In February I was reminded there are a lot of self imposed...
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The Road Less Travelled
Linking with #SkyWatchI'm not really fit to talk about this topic. I may have taken a little longer to get there, but I did eventually get married and have kids. I worked a run of the mill corporate...
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In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary ~ Aaron Rose.
It had been an overcast day for our big day of sightseeing in Kyoto. Thankfully not raining but grey and dark.Then as we hit Kinkakuji, the temple with the famed golden pavillion in the afternoon, the...
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Heron in flight
I was lucky enough to look up at the right time. Slightly off centre but I think it adds to the photo in a way. 'Like the air-invested heron, great persons should conduct themselves; and the higher...
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Ice Tulips
I was at DisneySea in January when I saw these. I assumed they were fake but was surprised to discover they were real.Later googling explained the blooms in winter. They're known as ice tulips because...
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January Reading
Butch ado about nothing - My Christmas present to myself was getting the new Grace Petrie shirt and her script of her show for Edinburgh Festival. When she was in Sydney she posted about finding a...
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Street art in Nakaziki
Linking with #RubyTuesdayTooBecause of the earthquake, we decided not to head to Nara on the kids 'rest day' incase something was to close the roads back (and stop the trains) so headed over to the...
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Share Four Somethings - January
Things I've loved Family holiday in Japan took me away for the first 2 weeks of the Sydney Festival so I've hit the ground running on my return. Plays, circus, concerts - a very busy time with friends...
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Enjoying the best of Sydney
My longtime friend, we met in a hotel pool in Malaysia when we were 12, was visiting from England. She wanted an easy day to catch up so I picked her up and we drove up to Cottage Point for lunch and a...
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Art is all around you
A while ago I posted about these two sort of textured posters around the neighbourhood. I've since found a few more, slightly further afield.It's turning into quit a gorgeous collection, like a city...
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