dreams about birds nests and missing flights and the office i work in growing so large that our weekly meetings have an overflow room with the vp of engineering talking at people via a giant screen + cold nights and firelight + sleeping in + marvelling at the new machine we have in our house […]
+++ the multi-stop picnic dinner with my husband on friday night + a grown-your-own flower workshop, that also included being able to make a hand-tied bouquet from flowers i’d picked myself + a fabulous show in the city with friends – physical poetry + a horrible night of bad dreams, tossing and turning, the distressing sounds […]
+++ i’ve got one saturday and one sunday every weekend and i’m going to squeeze out every last drop from them – especially when they smell like summer, sound like laughter, and contain mystery dates with my husband. i watched a gannet soaring high above the sea today, wings outstretched in the blue blue sky, […]
+++ lived five ways quietly. with morning meditations + spaces for lounging around in my pyjamas, eating croissants and reading gratefully. thankful for friends to have lunch and go beachcombing with physically. a sunday morning trail run with a friend and her dog. cut short when i stepped in a hole and tore a ligament in […]
+++ these are the things I want to remember: how after-work drinks with some people i have come to adore is a great way to start the weekend + how conversations without words continue to be my favourite kind + how kind words can make me feel sad because there’s 10 years of friendship I have […]
1 // waiheke island weather report: lie cradled against the earth, breathe in the shifting skies 2 // him. always him. my two’s company :: two’s company by french for rabbits +++ lovely to have heather cox back with another article for weekends collected – three things she likes to do on a dark & […]
friday afternoon, i take my parents for a walk along the beach. i am my mothers daughter – both of us collecting cats eyes and putting them in my pocket. mother helps me plant some vegetable seedlings in the garden, just before we lose the daylight. nic comes home and we share taco friday with […]