Lessons of a life lived thankfully.
We must empower each other in our weakness & walk confidently in our unknowing. Weaponising the unknown or poo-pooing curiosity is like shutting off a tap when you're already thirsty. In a world that awards a highly curated, overly-perfect ideal of “self” at work, it’s necessary for us to feel comfortable in our own skin. To do this we must allow for imperfection.
The news this week here Downunder has been seeped in millennial-bashing by older generations of hard-nosed corporate die-hards & TV armchair warriors who fear the internet & social media, but love a good trolling session disguised as aged pontificating in the comment section of local newspapers & community Facebook pages.
It's January 1st, 2019. I'm writing this from the future. Kind of.
Lately I’ve been taking stock of things. You know, adult-y, important, life-y things. And, in taking stock of all these adult-y & life-y things, I’ve come to a fairly heavy, yet ridiculously common sensical conclusion – there’s just not enough time in the day. Seriously! I work hard. I support my family. I try as hard as …
I have something to tell you.Sit down, grab a cuppa, & buckle up. This morning I woke up & wanted nothing more than to go back to sleep. To simply find a dark place to hide away in. Away from the world. Away from pressures nipping at my heels & responsibilities I've signed up for. …
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Here’s the thing about young, handsome Argentinian lifeguards on beaches... they’re very convincing. VERY. CONVINCING. Maybe it's was his accent, my broken Español, or the casual way in which his eyes lit up when I said "Is that hard to do?" that I decided to go out on a limb yesterday. Literally. (NOTE: my decision may …
Okay, okay... I've been fairly lax on the posting-my-best-photos-monthly front. Why? Because, busy. Busy with work, with family, with travel & adventuring... basically, sneaky 'ol Life got in the way of being bloggerific. And yeah, the 'glorification of busy' is a thing... so I need to stop using busy-ness as an excuse for not doing …
Where do you go when the universe is too heavy to carry? Some people head to the mountains, to the bottom of a bottle, or search out a dark desert road to see the stars. Me? I go the ocean. Without fail, when I feel like the world around me, or inside of me, is …
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Well I'll be damned. Where in the world did February go? Did I blink and miss it? Seriously though. February, you sure flew by at the speed of a speedy-thing. To find a photographic trend for the month, I've had to go back into my camera's memory (thank goodness for a camera's memory when mine …
This morning I got out of bed at 2:45am. Yep, by choice. (Again.) Beating my 3am alarm by 15 minutes & cursing the fates for being born a true early bird, I opened a squinty right eye. The left followed begrudgingly. Blinking, I gave my gorgeous fiancee a sleepy smooch and then staggered to the …
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