When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way". Wayne Dyer

I go to a dance exercise class, and one of the group is a woman with dementia whose lovely elderly husband escorts her to class and then goes and sits in the car until it’s over. He then returns to escort her back to the car. Recently, instead of warm up she just started dancing & I thought ‘high five’ because warm up is a snore,

Then in the break she just kept dancing so I danced with her because there are too many breaks. After a minute a woman came and joined us so we danced until the instructor started again.

The lessons are:

1. if in decline and things are hard or confusing, just do the good bits.

2. If you keep doing something, even by yourself, the right people will find you.

Keep doing what you love as long as you love doing it.

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance". — Alan Watts

And yes, the unrelated photos are the same photo but the first one is upside down. I am entertaining myself endlessly with this....(see here & here)

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“In nature, every distraction is an inspiration.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

I was visiting my sister in hospital, and we became distracted by a mother and daughter feeding the birds.

It was a sweet way for a parent to engage with her teenage child who was having a difficult time.

A simple way to enjoy being together without touching on any triggers.

Feeding the birds was also nourising their relationship.

Maybe we all need to think about how we feed our birds?

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And just like that - Lights out!

VIVID is over for another year. I'm always a little sad when this day comes. I've spent a few weeks racing around seeing the displays, joining in the music and other evcnts. With friends, by myself, rushing to an area before a show, managing to squeeze as much in as possible. 

And now, it's over.

Now what, Sydney?

Until next year.... 

A note to visitors - VIVID is Sydney's Winter festival. It's outdoors and on the nights of the Drone show, it can get very crowded. I had no crowd issues on any of the nights I went, including a Saturday night (but in a different area to the drone show). Don't let the negative reports put you off. It's wonderful. There's plenty of food trucks and some of the prices were high but there's also all of Sydney's normal shops and restaurants too. The dates vary each year but it's well worth a visit if you are in the country at the time. 

Also the details of the film I mentioned in a previous post are here. It's called Nowhere to be and it's the expereince of 31 film makers in lockdowns around the world. Fascinating and well worth watching if you get a chance. The Australian premiere was at VIVID.

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Short Stories - what have I been listening to?

 A while back I posted about some radio plays I'd enjoyed so I thought I'd post about my most recent discovery.

The New Yorker has this brilliant free podcast where authors read short stories by other authors and then discuss why they like it and the craft and meaning in the work.

It's like a short little book club and a great way to discover the work of authors you may not be that familliar with.

I went looking for the Patricia Highsmith episode (after watching Perfect Days, the Wim Wenders movie, I'm on a roll with her short stories) but got distracted by the Shirley Jackson one instead. I'm keen to listen to all the Alice Munro and Haruki Murakami episodes too...

I am listening on Spotify but I'm sure you can get it elsewhere.

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Even More VIVID

 I loved the atmosphere on the Goods line, less lights but the fires and 'shows'. 

In the School of Business they're screening a documentary of people around the world's experience of lockdown. Worth dropping in for five or ten minutes. I really cant get out of my head the guy in New Zealand who did it in a van....

Just outside is Window Dressing, a fun show in the windows of the building. So fun.

This work in Darling Harbour outside the ICC is great too.

Last days, VIVID ends this weekend! 

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“Few people go to art exhibitions. The power of Street Art is that it goes to people’s daily life to be seen.” iNO

 

We have a new mural going up. I told the artist I thought it was great and she smiled broadly. Afterwards, I realised I should have got her name but I'll go back when the cherrypicker has gone and find the signature...

Last night after the train decided mid trip to not stop at five of the listed stops due to congestion, I travelled around trying to make my way home. The only bonus, as I wasted my time, was this train that lit up with all the reflected lights around it, looking like it was painted neon. 

Sometimes the smallest amusements make you smile.

"A museum is a bad place to look at art; the worst context for art is other art" Banksy

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