Archive for October, 2007

I am a botanical genetic engineer

Every Wednesday morning I do gardening at Nanna’s house. This is my happiest time of the week. We stroll around and I ooooh and aaaah at all of Nanna’s beautiful flowers. Every time I go there is something new flowering and i Always make smart gardenery comments like “This ones coming up well isn’t it?” [...]

Write a novel in a month? Easy.

This November is NaNoWriMo - National Novel Writing Month.
Its about stopping the inner critic, mindlessly editing, procrastinating, perfectionistinising and JUST producing. I figured out I should aim to write 1,666.66* words a day so I can have a 50,00 word novel by the end of the month.
I think this is a really great tool to [...]

Just out of sight.

Do you ever get the feeling that maybe you are living in a matrix? that reality isnt as real as you thought it was? that there is more to you, to life, to everything, then it seems? I get that feeling all the time…
Think about time. There was never a beginning of time, and [...]

My Future Home.

I don’t know about you, but i spend ALOT of time day dreaming about my future home. I love designing the architecture, imagining the gardens i will plant….sigh. heaven. here are some things i want for my future home:
- I want a loooong drive way lined with big trees.
- I was Jacarandas, Tipuanas, Poincianas, Shizalobiums [...]

Micronations

This is my new obsession. Micronations. They are allll the rage.
WHAT is a micronation: They are the coolest things ever! Basically some entrepreneurial person (you?) decides to create their own nation. It might be in your bedroom, on your property, on an island or a street corner. You could even make a cyber nation with [...]

You Are Not Important.

I had an interesting conversation with two great friends today about Self Image. How you view yourself vs how other people view you. And I have decided that there are three main PERSPECTIVES from which you can view the world.
1. You can look at yourself through others eyes. I still remember when it happened to [...]

Close your eyes. Now open them.

Sometimes when I am imagining I like to look at the world from the perspective of a tribal cave man. The world was full of so many mysteries long ago. Before everything was dissected into bite sized pieces by science and maths. Imagine what it would have been like back then, to look at a [...]

Growing on me

I heard this song on the radio and wasn’t sure if i liked it.
Then i checked out the Film clip on YouTube and was like “what!?”. The film clip is seriously weird, i have watched it maybe 4 times now and i still don’t know what to make of it. I really really really [...]

I-Scream

When you grow older your tastes change. You decide that you do like bacon, or coffee (learning), and that Hawaiian pizza isn’t the only flavour you can swallow. You’re tastes in music and clothes and activities change. Maybe this is growing into yourself. Like everyone is born wearing a really big jumpsuit/identity and as we [...]

Writing a dream.

Stream of consciousnesses. This is when you just sit down at the computer/notebook and write whatever comes out. It will not make sense. It is just emptying all the stuff that is swirling inside.
I love-love this book called: Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg. She swears by this. She calls it 1st thoughts and [...]