An unannounced visitor

I love it when someone comes to visit. Somedays, it's good to have a quiet friend, too. One who appreciates what it is to fly into the light, and not think of the consequences. This one came to visit me today. It is about the size of a matchbox, but you can't see that...

Big Tree

Yeah. It's either a really big tree. Or a really small kid. Good times.

Airing the Dirty Laundry

So. I bought a washing machine the other day. Had to. It was supposed to help make life a little less dysfunctional. As is obvious, I haven't been able to get it to work. There was a book about the realities of life versus enlightenment (which I am not a follower of), called "After the Ecstacy, the Laundry", and I am hoping to find some kind of epiphany come to me as I rinse and squeeze, some epiphany would be good, round about now...

Box of Dreams

It's packed away- fairly roughly. None of the ceremony of its erection. It will stay in a box intil next year, when, in the impatient desperation of the children it will once more be made to dominate the room, the branches loaded with baubles and promises again. Special times, lying in wait.

Fridge Propoganda

I have rubber skeletons, dinosaurs and crocodiles. I have Batman in the kitchen. I have tiny chairs and strange stains on the furniture. I have children. This is a picture from a toy package, which I keep on my fridge. I love the words- they seem to come from the heaviest medicated state possible.

Lightbulb Moment

This is a stunning place. Cape Town, South Africa. It's the lighthouse at Mouille Point, quite close to the centre of Town. I was out there at a restaurant on 13/01/2010 having sushi with a group of people- most of whom I have never met. We laughed a lot. So lighthouses? Are they about shipwrecks or salvation? I'll take the latter, please.

I'm Gonna Take My Problem to Da United Nations

I work with an environmental law NGO. We work mostly with communities and governments, assisting them with the implementation of international regulations or their own rights. We're not really activists, like, say, Greenpeace, but it is important to be involved in major issues such as climate change. So we go to the conferences, sometimes we even get to speak and hold side events. Here's one of the forms I have to sort out, so that we gain official accreditation. Painful.