make some time for wasting

it's 2007 and we've just moved to madison, wisconsin.

this will be our home for the next 3 months while nic leads the hand over of a software development project to the new team and i hire my replacement.

on our weekends we're taking every opportunity to explore this city and the surrounding area. one such exploration leads us to mother fool's coffee house on williamson street. it's beautifully eclectic and makes great coffee.

funny how some things stay in my memory with a clarity that seems like the encounter was more recent. in this particularly bright memory i was in the bathroom at mother fools and noticed a poster advertising the katie todd band coming to town. we'd missed them, but i did look them up and found this lovely album, make some time for wasting, that i promptly bought and played on repeat for a lot of the time we lived in madison.

this past weekend, after walking the length of palm beach, i sat in one of my favourite places: nestled in between the boughs of a beautiful pohutukawa tree on top of a rocky outcrop separating palm beach from little palm. and, as i sat there, i was reminded of these lyrics.

the sky was awash with colours ranging from vivid blue to thundercloud grey, clouds whizzing past with the occasional dump of water making me wet before the sun and wind would dry me off again. the waves below me, washing in and out, like a breath i could match my own to.

heartbeat slowing, eyes closed for a while, i lay cradled in the arms of something more ancient and wise than me, making some time for wasting.