I have been working for a company called Salesforce for the past 11 months, and in a mere four weeks time my time with them will be over. I have been living in Glebe, an inner city suburb of Sydney for the past 8-9 months, and in a mere four weeks time I will be moving on. The past year has been a time of big changes. For the first time, I was ( Read more... )

'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see'  ~ Henry David Thoreau

I thought I had lost my muse, but the realisation has just come to me that I was only in supression of it.  All along it is I who has been my muse, combined with the very air of life. I have been waiting for inspiration, believing it would come with time. Inspiration ( Read more... )

The journey home from work takes 15 minutes by foot for me, 12 minutes of that consisting of one long stretch of sidewalk on 'Glebe Point Road'. Those that are familiar with the Glebe area will know what the street is like - misfits, junkies, artists, musicians, richies, poories, students, backpackers, and dogs without leashes. Coffee and a sit ( Read more... )

'I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I ( Read more... )

Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.' ~ Lewis Carroll

The tide has turned. The wave will be crashing ( Read more... )