performance anxiety calm
i haven’t been writing much lately: here or on paper.
and as i sat here thinking about WHY, i wondered, for the tiniest moment, if it was because i was anxious…
if it was because i had fallen back into the TRAP of comparing myself with others and coming up short.
or if it was that what i wanted to say wouldn’t come out right and that it would be misinterpreted.
and i realised as i sat here, in quiet conversation with myself that i wasn’t comparing. and i’m not anxious.
i’m totally calm. and still.
peace-full.
and the words aren’t coming because nothing is clamouring to be said.
(well, apart from this obviously)
because
- it’s friday, which accidentally coincided with me getting round to scanning a whole heap of stuff
- i adore jeanine – she brings out my playful side
inspired by a photograph jeanine has pinned on her wall.
saf restaurant, shoreditch. website | twitter | iphone app with tasty recipes
inspired by the Lines & Shapes Connect Us publication Sundays Are For Lovers 1, i am accepting the invitation – located inside the front cover – to answer the set of questions that all the featured artists answered.
i invite you to play along too.
leave a link to (or write) your answers in the comments…
questions are in bold. here we go…
My home-base is currently London, England, though i still consider New Zealand my home
Day to day I work as much as i can on learning more about myself and the world
If I didn’t do this I would probably already be dead
Next year I will travel to some more countries that I’ve not visited yet
To me Sunday means sleeping in with Nic
And I like to eat something that someone else has made, preferably somewhere we’ve not been before
And I will get out of bed if the sun is shining and there are places to go
And get dressed around the time I am ready to leave the house
And I will smile about everything that is good and right in my life
And I just may daydream about a home by the sea
And when Monday comes i will tīmata anō (begin again)
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1. footnotes
- thanks to Jeanine for putting me on to this publication
- features Brian Ferry of the blue hour, who i have only just found out about (i know!)
- the book is available in London from Albam or online from Lines & Shapes
- limited edition of only 1000 copies, so hurry if you want one of your own
i reckon the story store and deli in the old truman brewery, brick lane has some of the best pizza in town
made with fresh, organic ingredients and bursting with flavour.
there’s a lovely store
full of treasure
and recycled objects
who wants to join me there for lunch (or supper) sometime?
x
-leonie
all photographs captured with an iPhone 4
no words to describe this place. it got totally under my skin.
a riad doorway
our riad terrace, where we breakfasted each morning
herboriste du paradis, place ben youssef, medina
the beginnings of a moroccan carpet hang in a riad
self portrait in the souks
moroccan teapots, polaroid spectra
with love,
-leonie
p.s. more here, here and here
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exquisite corpse collective. image by curator kristen.
i’ve been wanting to be part of a collaboration for the longest time, so getting to play this amazing game during july with two of my favourite photographers, darlene & vivienne has me so excited that i’m nearly jumping out of my skin.
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all of them do.
