Tag: personal

Home, yet homesick

I was just watching a tiny spider crawling across my pillow and I thought to myself “meh, in Australia our spiders are heaps bigger than that”. Then I remembered that I am in Australia now. It doesn’t seem real. I still say alsjeblieft when I pay for things, but now it is kinda under my… Continue reading Home, yet homesick

catch up

I will surely be posting a lot in the next few weeks, so I had better get you, dear reader, up to speed. A lot has changed, and everything is just coming together as if by design. live My first priority, on returning to Australia, was to find somewhere to live. I have always preferred… Continue reading catch up

Clearing things up

In response to reader feedback, I would like to make clear that the previous two posts are not at all related to Kirsten.

Tool – Third Eye

While I’m at it… Dreaming of that face again.It’s bright and blue and shimmering.Grinning wideAnd comforting me with it’s three warm and wild eyes. On my back and tumblingDown that hole and back againRising upAnd wiping the webs and the dew from my withered eye. In… out… in… out… in… out… A child’s rhyme stuck… Continue reading Tool – Third Eye

I could have lied

I was listening to my mp3 player in bed and actually heard the lyrics to the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ “I Could Have Lied” for the first time. There are parallels in my own life, but really I am posting this because copying lyrics is a cheap way of getting content up when I have… Continue reading I could have lied

Back in Australia

I arrived back in Australia on the 7th of February, just in time for my birthday on the 9th. It turns out that the 31st birthday is the one that makes you feel old, not the 30th. I had friends and family over for a birthday BBQ on the Saturday, all my friends were de… Continue reading Back in Australia