Our Gallery shopfront is now vacant since daughter Xanthe took her seamstress business north to Auckland, land of opportunity. I began to yearn for a new beginning, a shop front where all my wares are displayed and open to the public, and hopefully pilgrims from further afield, drawn by the website and our Youtube channel… …
When in my twenties I belatedly came into real contact with the Punk movement and related underground anti bourgeois drug-taking communities and thought worlds, I immediately knew I wanted very little to do with this possible way of being, this psychic underbelly as I saw it… I aspired to the upper realms, in philosophy a …
On Fairytales, Romantic Fantasy and the Bourgeois Read More »
Under all our endeavours lie rhythms we normally take for granted: breathing, brainwaves, sleep and waking, digestion… and most vital of all, the heartbeat. On Sunday morning the cat woke me and I noticed I had an irregular heartbeat. A really irregular heartbeat. Suddenly it was hard to think of anything else but the rhythm. …
I had an interlude on the old Kaipara today, an impromptu quest for the smooth heavy brown stones that I’ve carved from time to time – including lately as I live alone in the Hall of the Ark while I finish relining the hall for the hopeful new owners (who want to teach yoga in …
Well we had to choose, and we chose Eutopia in Gisborne (and grandsons) over paradise in the Kaipara. I uploaded the ad with 20 nice photos today http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1089181824 Hard to let go, harder to try to live in two places! ‘The snake that cannot shed its skin, dies’- Nietzsche. ‘Simplify, simplify!’ – John Harris 🙂 …
Now with better photoshopping! And some words to the effect – if you like this concept, why not get in touch? Renaissance is a together thing… Share this image and message… website coming, looks like the name is DREAMSPACE, and the place, hopefully, is 61 Carnarvon. Early adopters who might want to share a space …
Happy Earth Day! Excuse the animal metaphors which follow. ‘Go big or go home’ – this saying, from a Trump documentary, got to me in a good way! I thought ‘Yes we can!‘ – to quote the Obama side of the elephant. Both ends of the human spectrum in their saner moments know there’s only …
For good or ill, I decided a few years back to divide and conquer – to have multiple blogsites for my multiple and possibly confusing interests and endeavours. It got out of hand, some would (indeed DO) say. I have exactly forty, according to WordPress. But this is misleading – some are registered for other people, …
State of the Dysunion: blogging for People of (Too) Many Parts Read More »
Ask this boy! 🙂 Grandson Bruno (here wearing my sparkly hat and glasses) is waiting patiently for his third Christmas and the pine smell of the tree is already bringing magic into his house. This is a year I decided to once again try hard to DO Christmas. Why? Because for once I …
Celebrity alert! Guess who’s going to be in my brother’s film! (hint: it’s not me) I’ve just updated the EveryLittleThing blog –EveryLittleThing for brother John – it’s exciting after all these years he’s stepping out into the wild blue yonder of film-making for himself (after selling his documentary company Greenstone TV). I think this movie will …
Every Little Thing – a forthcoming film by my brother Read More »
