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Writer’s Group
One of the things I really want to do now that I’m being all creative and stuff is join a writer’s group. There are a couple of things standing in my way. it’s a bad time of year – a lot of the groups I have found online don’t appear to meet over summer, or…
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And that is your reward.
Today while I was watching an performance and interview with Stephen Fry from the Sydney Opera House* for ABC1 on October 6, 2010 on Youtube he said something that hit me in the face like a slap: “[Oscar] Wilde said ‘If you want to be a grocer or a general or a politician or a…
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Byron Bay Part 3
On Saturday evening I attended my very first spoken word poetry performance night. It was put on by a group called Dangerously Poetic who work with people in the Northern Rivers area in NSW (including Bryon Bay). When I arrived I was hesitant, I’d never been to a spoken word event and all of my…
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Byron Bay Part 2
In my last entry I talked about finding some sculpture that I was going to post separately, well, here it is as a photo essay! This was on the foreshore in Byron Bay just up the road from the main pub strip. The plaque (below) says that the “Tree Theatre” was donated to Byron Bay…
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Byron Bay Part 1
I was recently invited to visit Byron Bay for a little over a week in exchange for dog and plant-sitting duties. I arrived on Monday 28th November. The pace of life in Byron is, well, much, much slower. Locals seem pretty chilled out and while there is some debate over whether Byron itself has become…
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Adventuring
I spent today feeling like I did not achieve very much. In the morning I made a bag from an old pair of jeans I found while cleaning stuff out to go the op shop. Here is a bad photo from my phone: At about 5pm I decided I needed to go on an adventure.…
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Inspirational Conversations
Today and yesterday I was helping out friend and fellow blogger Jen (Red Parka) by staffing her stall at the Rose St Artist’s Market in Fitzroy (Melbourne). The market runs every Saturday and Sunday and has a collection of stalls; clothes, jewellery, accessories, knick knacks, paintings, art and various other miscellaneous items. As far as…
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Motivation Fail
Since leaving my job, less than 2 weeks ago, I have become more and more unmotivated. I just do not want to do anything. I want to stay at home, stare into space and not see anyone. I don’t know whether it’s exhaustion after driving myself so hard for so long in a job that…
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