You are here:
Home / Archives for odd
Does it seem that we’re in a cycle again? The one where everything old is new again? It feels like that right now. It’s happening in fashion, in design (in all its guises). I get that way with
Tags: antipodeans, apparent, author, being, blog, blog writer, calamine lotion, case, Central hawkes Bay, comicStyle, creates, cycle, deep. level, detect, effect, familiar, fashion, feel, figure, good, guess, Hastings New Zealand, Hawke's Bay, Help, hives, immediate, impossibble, incognito, itches, Jason Frazer, kiwi, kiwiStyle, Knowing me knowing you, life, lifeStyle, maori, memories, mindStyle, move on, new, New Zealand, new zealanders, odd, pasifka, penneylane, penneylaneonline, penneylaneonline.com, polynesian, pontifications, process, reflections, right, scratch it, sensation, short walk, soothe, thoughts, turnStyle, twistedmusings.com.au, understand, views, Waipukurau, where mindStyle matters, writer, writing, writings
Survival is an interesting modus operandi. It’s odd really because at the heart of a situation is a softness that can somehow gets lost in the translation. I often wonder
Tags: amazed, antipodeans, attribute, author, being, blog, blog writer, capacity, Central hawkes Bay, childhood, comicStyle, constant, core, experiences, fares, fork in the road, Hastings New Zealand, Hawke's Bay, heart, honour, human, interesting, Jason Frazer, kiwi, kiwiStyle, know, life, life-threatening, lifeStyle, Lost in Translation, Made, making our mark, maori, mindStyle, modelling, modus operandi, necessary, New Zealand, new zealanders, odd, overall picture, pasifka, past experiences, path, penneylane, penneylaneonline, penneylaneonline.com, person, pleasant, polynesian, pontifications, pristine, rear vision mirror, reflections, reilience, response, significance, situation, situations, snow, softness, spur, state, stuff, survive, Survivor Antipodes 2008, thoughts, times, trauma, turnStyle, twistedmusings.com.au, untouched, upheaval, views, Waipukurau, well-being, where mindStyle matters, wonder, writer, writing, writings
I get a real kick out of finding a treasure among the oddments of a second-hand shop or an Estate sale. It’s the fact that these things have been pre-loved. I love that they have their own story to tell and hearing it can be so humbling.
Tags: 'take-me-as-you-find-me, 1992, Add new tag, air, Andy, appreciate, appreciation, Art teacher, assured, attention, back, beauty, bees wax, bill boards, black, brought, business cards, buy, calendar, charm, clock, cloth, comprehension, condition, cross-stitched, dearest, decision, Design, discounted, distinct, drum, entry, escape, Estate, exquisite, eye, fact, feel, forgotten, former, found, framed, gifted, give, good, grand-children, grandmother, hand, handed down, hate, hearing, heavenward, High School, house, humbling, in-tune, inscription, intrude, iris, kick, lettering, liked, linen, little, lives, love, lovely, loving, make, marketeers, me, memories, memory, modern-day, months, morning, mouthe, need, needs, numbers, odd, oddments, owner, penmanship, penneylane, penneylaneonline, possessions, prayer, pre-loved, presumptuous, privileged, real, road, rubbing, rudely, rustic, Sal, Sal's Granny, sale, salesmen, salesperson, screaming, second-hand, secured, send, shine, shoving, simple, sparkle, spruiking, story, tell, thing, things, thinking, time, treasure, Treasure Trove, uncluttered, warmed, wondered, wooden, wordlessly, you
It’s my friend Frazer’s birthday today and while the age tachometer trips over another year for him I’m reminded of just how long I’ve known him and I concede it’s been a while. Today, Lynley Dodd’s Hairy McClary from Donaldson’s dairy also celebrated
Tags: above, adventures, age, backs, bad, believe, birthday, black, canine, celebrate, commiserate, contact, dog, Donaldson's Dairy, experienced, fair, Frazer, fuss, habit, Hairy McClary, heritage, idea, ideas, In Reflection, knowing, Lynley Dodd, mates, maverick, odd, one, over, penneylaneonline, reflection, scrapes, scraps, simple, tachometer, together, trips, understand, watching, worst, year, years
The overnight rains have had an unusual effect on the bird life here in the suburb that I live in. There’s an orchestral banter that borders on near hysteria or maybe it’s just an expectancy of something to which we are not privy that makes me feel for the moment, left out.
Tags: array, banter, bird, birdlife, black bird, Blackey, blog, borders, busy, characters, chatter, city, comforting, cultured, decent-sized, delectable, delightful, delivers, directly, drips, effect, excited, expectancy, feel, float, gifts, hand, hide and seek, hysteria, left out, life, live, look, macadamia tree, moment, naturally, necklaces, nutty, occasion, odd, orange and lemon trees, orchestral, original, overnight, owners, pearl, penneylane, penneylaneonline, places, planted, privy, prolific, raindrop, rains, reasons, rich, shadow, social, sounds, steely, stoic, strong, strong silent type, suburb, the 'sham, twitters, unusual, watches, waves, years
