Little Loves - August

This may be the last official Little Loves, so I'd like to thank Rachel Swirl for the format - I will keep doing it as I find it a shorter version of Taking Stock, which I find a little too long.

READ I saw this post on the Jindo Path and became obsessed with understanding the science behind it - how only twice a year if it's related to lunar cycles? 

I am also re reading Fahrenheit 451. It's such a great book. Opens with a description of a fire that is both the fire burning but also the fire inside the man, that eagerness that lights up fuelled with power and hate - and you see both clearly. Extraordinary writing. It also has the most beautiful description of effects of depression, without ever mentioning it. It's the paragraph that surrounds this line  "Two moonstones looked up at him in the light of his small hand-held fire; two pale moonstones buried in a creek of clear water over which the life of the world ran, not touching them." I am savouring the rereading of it, not for the story but the beautiful imagery. If you haven't read it, the story is engrossing and a terrifying look at our current life, where we feel connected with strangers on the internet but disconnected from those at the dinner table. Astounding that is was written in1953! If you don't have a copy, you can also listen to it through your library on Hoopla. (Read it, and listen to. There's so much in it to savour!) 

WATCHED I went to see three short Tennessee Williams plays, one of which had the line "the past keeps getting bigger and bigger at the expense of the future" which has been haunting me ever since. 

We also went to the kooky When Night Comes as the start of our Sydney Fringe Festival. There is an easily recognised Shakespeare speech but at another part, there is a speech that ends with "behind me I heard the tapping of a blind man's cane" and it's driving me nuts as I can't place it. I initially thought Poe but I can't think which one. So maybe Frankenstein or The Invisible Man (H. G. Wells not Ralph Ellison). If anyone knows, let me know.

On tv I'm watching Vice Principals (which is a cringe fest) but really nothing worth noting seems to be on at the moment.

HEARD I couldn't get tickets to Alex Warren so I've been playing him on repeat at the moment, making myself jealous of all those lucky ducks that got to go to what I'm sure would have been a fabulous concert.

 

I did get tickets to Chane Pena so I'm beginning to play him so that my husband wants to come too, as I know he'll like him. This is not his best song but it's filmed in Iceland and I want to go there so it's a visual treat for me!

WORE Sydney's endless rain is doing my head in. So cocktail dress with rain boots is the go!

AND LASTLY I love looking at the month to pick my three favourite things. It's hard to narrow it down! And that is a blessing. Listening to the fun my kiddo had at their birthday party - singing, dancing & laughter - all round good vibes. Sheng Wang was very funny and I keep getting a bit in my head every time I see berries at the supermarket, which makes me chuckle out loud, resulting in strange looks, which makes me laugh more. After a short music drought, I've seen gigs every Friday night so that always makes me happy. The high lights for elating fun with friends, has got to be the line dancing, the singalong and many meals out with friends. It's been a month of lovely catch ups! I am also beside myself with excitement at how my ice plant is progressing. I can't wait until I can eat it!

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