The Stowaway

2012-01-21T10:57:00.001+11:00

Open the windows.

2011-11-27T16:16:00.017+11:00

Summer is only three days journey from here.

Breathe and relax, let it all go, Dear.
Today what you've got is on a one day loan;
you can't hold on to tomorrow
or yesterday's throne.

Hope your springs / autumns have been wonderful, and that breathtaking holidays come to you soon! The weather up until now has been terribly dull in Sydney, but it's finally clearing up to blue skies which is a dream! P.s. For relaxing, listen to this song.

Ask truly

2011-11-16T21:48:00.024+11:00

So you look at me with eyes in a different place.

You're in a space i do not know.
Je ne vois pas.
Once open, the trees now pull in their branches.
A trembling hand slowly drawing in its fingers,
as each leaf curls into its neighbour.
A great folding away;
like butterflies growing backwards.'How well do you know me?'
She asks sidelong, inspecting your temples.
With a charcoaled stick she further scrawls away the afternoon-
across the cliffs and onto her ribs, the words:

'What lies inside?'

If you were to shout your name
into the gaps between her teeth,
do you think you would hear an echo?

Would it start from deep within; a reverberating, empty din; off walls beneath her collarbones, in choking drones of heartened tin?

Or even worse, would she hold her breath; reply to you in cold silence, with a steady stare and solid air of someone to be fought? (she only wanted to be sought).

But it's your choice; what if your voice when she's afraid, breaks down all her barricades, and mends a heart with parts well frayed?

(Photographs from: Alex Hedger, d o l f i, the snail and the cyclops, nashkita, gorbot)

My Dear, Persevere

2011-10-27T00:07:00.013+11:00

When Winter is Long:

Oh! Sing me a song
the summer's a coming.
I know that your footsteps
are achin' for running;
down by the stone-steps,
rakin' the cold and wet
sea;

'How i wish of you dream-eyes
-laughing with me.'

When Summer Arrives:
We hold tight our eyes
and listen, just breathe!
Those troubles and trials
he'll hush down, you'll see.
With his breath in the treetops,
his voice in the
sea;

'How i've longed for this time
just for you
here and me. '

On one of those days, it's good to remember:

2011-10-25T15:51:00.004+11:00

(love from xkcd)

Will you take a second to think about it?

2011-10-24T10:37:00.007+11:00

³⁹ I will give them singleness of heart and action, so that they will always fear me and that all will then go well for them and for their children after them.

⁴⁰ I will make an everlasting covenant with them: I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear me, so that they will never turn away from me.

⁴¹ I will rejoice in doing them good and will assuredly plant them in this land with all my heart and soul.
Jeremiah 32:39-41