So much to live for and do while waiting
Tolstoy wrote in Anna Karenina that “spring is the time of plans and projects.” With the passing of equinox, July inspires us to seriously lift our game. Slow, cosy winter days are replaced with big plans for action. There are many spots to find little signs that Spring is coming. Here, in July, in the Southern Hemisphere, on a particularly bleak wintery day, it is reassuring to go into my private backyard woodland and note that unlike in Westeros, spring really is coming.
The Soul Food Cafe, built by Heather Blakey, was inhabited by an international group of writers and artists whose global mission was to promote writing and art-making as a daily practice through the use of interactive web-based technologies such as blogging and e-mail groups. While Waiting for Godot is a branch of this complex site.
Soul Food remains a wonderful resource. Using the Wayback Machine link you can access all the features of this quirky world.
On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love (the creative spirit) sent to me:
Twelve Penguins Diving
Eleven Koalas Climbing
Ten Snakes Slithering
Nine Sulphur Crested Cockatoos Squawking
Eight Green Turtles Ambling
Seven Platypus Swimming
Six Numbats Digging
Five Satin Bowerbirds Decorating
Four Australian Fur Seals Frolicking
Three Tasmanian Tigers Barking
Two Superb Lyrebirds Mimicking
and a Kookaburra up a Gum Tree
Georgetown Headstone History