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hot cockles*
It was one of those wandering days, open to suggestion. We’d driven from Dunedin to Port Chalmers, stopping to pick up a hitchhiker making his way back from the market. In town on the main drag we ran...
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in the morning, when we rise
The air is getting crispy. The leaves here stay green, or seem to fall off overnight, skipping the yellow red gold I am used to in the autumn. Tonight our clocks fall back and we reclaim an extra hour;...
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fjords and Fiordland
Fiordland was misspelled. Everyone must have been too distracted by the amazing beauty to notice. We arrived in the evening, before the only road in closes for the night at 7:30. It was some of the...
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lush
“My greatest skill in life has been to want but little.” ~ Thoreau On our way from Milford Sound to Te Anau, we stopped along the road to have a walk. We weren’t sure where we were going or what we...
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intervals between what happens
Our life has been very temporary in the past eight months, at least our creature comforts have been. We’ve been flatting and house sitting since we came overseas. This lifestyle has allowed us to...
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i made you a mix
I made a mix tape for autumn. Funny how so many songs for spring feel good for the fall, so I hope it works for both hemispheres. With love. You can listen to it here. Filed under: making stuff and...
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Sydney side up
Sydney has stolen my heart. It had all the things that made it so easy to fall in love: golden autumnal light, perfect cool weather, endlessly explorable neighborhoods, beautiful row houses and wrought...
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Piss Test is a good thing
Piss Test is the garage-punk-rock-pop-buzzsaw-in-your-brain band from Portland, Oregon who so nicely let me design their new 7″ EP record sleeve. The record inside is excellent, available here, or...
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rhubarb
Outside the wind is howling and rain is coming down sideways. I’ve been inside all day with a cold, daydreaming of warm summer days. They are coming fast. Only a few more days in Wellington, and then...
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little river
Towards the end of our trip through the South Island we were in need of a place to rest our heads on the Banks Peninsula. After perusing a couple of guide books, I chose Little River on a whim. As the...
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make do
Recently I was browsing a used bookshop and stumbled upon a reprint of a WWII-era book about doing more with less. It reminded me of the wonderful saying, “Use it up, wear it out, make do, or do...
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train dreams
“Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go.” ~Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to...
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we were here/there
Three weeks back in the States, time enough to develop the role of film begun in Wellington, finished in Denver. From the windy damp to the hot dust, we’ve begun fixing up our version of a home. Coming...
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along the water
Next to Oriental Bay, Wellington, New Zealand. Only a few weeks ago we lived beside the sea and it was autumn. Filed under: film, NZ, wanderings
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back and forth
Life has been too full to spend much time here. Summer is ripe and I have been surrounded by friends, food, projects, and all the goodness of Colorado. But today here are a few last moments in...
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growing
“If the boundaries of the self are defined by what we feel…those who feel for others are enlarged, and those who feel compassion for all beings must be boundless.” ::Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby...
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sound of a voice
Last year this man published a book called The Homeland of Pure Joy, and has just begun releasing the same in audio book. I love listening to books, love being read to, and am so very excited to hear...
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porch
This summer has been warm, not hot, a respite from last year’s blazing days. Instead of the swimming pool it has been early evening picnics and bikes. And the porch, which I’ve not had for a long...
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my own silver gut
“But there is another kind of seeing that involves a letting go. When I see this way I sway transfixed and emptied. The difference between the two ways of seeing is the difference between walking with...
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to the columbines
We live in a beautiful state. For the past few years a bunch of us Denver city folk have banded together for a weekend in the mountains. It is not rough, but it is far enough away that we can look at...
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