As you may know, I’m down under for the next two months, taking some time to visit my relatives and to finish writing my first book.
The book is going great – however the lack of office and stable internet connection has meant that other areas of my work are going at a slower speed than anticipated! But that’s okay. I’m seeing the value in taking ‘time out’ from the usual schedule to recharge, reconnect and re-evaluate! But, as you may have noticed, it’s meant that whizz-bang things like twitter, facebook and my blog have taken a back-seat. For now. To all of you who’ve recently got the RSS or have connected with friendfeed – I’m not usually this quiet. Honest :) And I’m delighted you found me. My intentions for the new year is to use this blog, as it slowly integrates with my website (or vice versa), as a place to share more of my poetry. But for now, with travels and borrowed internet connections, my sharings may well be a bit sparse :)
Today it was 40 degrees. I remember before leaving England talking to one of my favourite authors and source of much inspiration – Glennie Kindred. We were talking about the energy of Winter in England, of going into the darkness to prepare the soil for the growth of the coming Spring. We spoke of Winter being a time to cultivate the seeds – ideas and projects – we intend to grow next year. And then I jetted off to the sunshine ;) My question to Glennie was, at the time, so can I do all my ‘winter work’ whilst in the blazing heat of the Aussie summer? She felt I could. And I am. Without trying to winter whilst in the sunshine, I’m finding that the ‘winter work’ is very much unfolding. You can read more about Glennie’s work and our conversation in the May edition of the Green Parent Magazine, 2010.
As for things aside from ‘work’ here down under (see my post on ‘no more holidays’ to understand why ‘work’ is in inverted commas), my heart is happy to be visiting some incredible spirit-places (more explanations of these my last post!), and my body’s happy to be receiving all this sunshine. If I could wrap some up into my words and upload them into this post I would :) But for now, here’s wishing you a very merry Christmas and a truly energising and enlightening 2010.
