I’ve just emerged from a seven day storm of crying at the drop of a hat, hating everything about being alive and blubbing incoherently while holding various plushies brought home from the four corners of the earth, each imbued with a lot of temporal and historical meaning for myself and the Polish Bear. It’s aContinue reading “The messiness of being a woman”
Tag Archives: writing
Cosy Asakusa, Tokyo by night
People were nestled in their own little womb-like worlds of ramen and Izakaya meals, chugging on massive oversized beers in big jugs. Sheltered and obscured by plastic curtains and held up by plastic chairs. #Tokyo #TravelStories #shortstory #writing #travel
Who made the world?
Who made the world? The billowing clouds heading southward. The pillowed reef and a thousand animals beneath my feet. Who made the wind bracing my ankles. The shadows behind and through it all. Who makes the light dance in one part of the world. While other places cut like a frozen blade through flesh. WhoContinue reading “Who made the world?”
Tales of Chefchaoen: Blue-Walled City
#Chefchaoen rises out of the dust of the unforgiving #desert like a radiant, lush oasis of #blue calm. #travel #Morocco #writing #storytelling #shortstory
Book Review: Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
A weird and funny feel-good story of an unlikely adventure by an unlikely middle-aged adventurer who discovers love and connection in the most unfathomable places. #BookReview #Fiction #Love #Connection #Relationships
Chefchaoen at Dusk
When I was in Chefchaoen, Morocco in 2009 and looking out from the rooftop of the hostel I was overtaken by a feeling of awe and amazement at the sheer size and scale of the world. #travel #storytelling #writing #spirituality #love #connection #morocco
Comforting Thought: And the people stayed home by Kitty O’Meara
“And the people stayed home. And read books, and listened, and rested, and exercised, and made art, and played games, and learned new ways of being, and were still.” #alone #quote #healing #love #connection
Comforting Thought: Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere – they’re in each other all along
The moment I heard my first love storyI started looking for you, not knowinghow blind that was.Lovers don’t finally meet somewhereThey’re in each other all along.-Rumi
Comforting Thought: The comfort of knowing
“i take great comfort in knowingthere are even better versions of myselfthat i haven’t hugged yet” good grief, brianna pastor
Book Review: The Heading Dog That Split in Half by Brown and Tait
Aotearoa has a rich and varied history of folk legends and urban myths in addition to the rich history of Maori myth and legend. The Heading Dog Who Split in Half collects these half-realised dreams together with stunningly beautiful graphics. This book makes for engaging and captivating reading experience for readers of all ages.
Content Catnip 