Redreamer.

JYE TURNS 8

Turning 8 and waking up the first morning in the NEW HOUSE was a great birthday present for Jye and certainly more than made up for the lack of 'birthday party' we had a different sort of celebration starting of course with an early morning PRESENT ATTACK........

As we were int he middle of moving none of us had a lot of time for great indulgencies except to stay in a good humour and spend time with Jye during rest breaks.......he was pretty happy as both boys were tired from the previous day's exertions helping us move......... they worked hard.

we had food fun and a fantastic day........presents in the mail and cards as well........

All in all a great day!

MOVING IN TO HATHAWAY ROAD SEMPRONIUS

THE AFTERMATH DAY 2

THE FIRST SUNSET

HATHAWAY ROAD IS OURS

WELL WE HAVE KEYS............ WE LOOK

INSIDE AFTER WE FINISHED HANDING OVER

THE CASH.........

THE KITCHEN IS A GOOD SIZE........

MASTERS OF ALL THEY SURVEY

THE REDREAMING OF HATHAWAY ROAD

THE HOUSE OF OUR REDREAMING

LOTS OF LAND AND LOTS OF SPACE AND FUNKY HIGH CEILINGS UPSTAIRS....

MAKING SNOWMEN

AFTER SCHOOL SNOW.........

The boys just couldn't WAIT until they got outside in it...............yes SNOW is a BIG DEAL at our house........... cheap entertainment and healthy

to boot.

MOTORBIKES AND TRACTORS

Patrick looking at a Massey Ferguerson tractor................. boys and their toys..........

Drew was beaming as he discovered a PW 50 Yamaha in a shop ...... just like the one he left behind in australia.........

I wonder why we were looking???

his face tells it all really..........

LYRICS TO LIVE BY

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.
I want to know what you ache for
and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are.
I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon...
I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”

It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like the company you keep
in the empty moments.

© Mountaindreaming, from the book The Invitation published by HarperSanFrancisco, 1999 All rights reserved

YOU TUBE FOR ARTISTS

using youtube as a place to show more art.........

created a movie using windows movie player and added some music.....just a different tool to showcase some fine contemporary art.

pass the idea along people......... art for arts sake and redreaming our world.

BREAD AND MOUSEPADS

I have been working on creating more products for my Zazzle shop leading up to christmas and also to use the images i have taken over the last few months.

I am focusing on MOUSEPADS.......with the FLORAS FEAST series of images.. in a celebration of plants and gardens and all things outside and growing and beautiful. I hope you enjoy and consider buying one.... after all they are unique and you can modify them to include text (your NAME) for example........ or as a perfect gift.

It is almost thanksgiving and shall be baking BREAD for most of the day today......and i have the boys home for the next 5 days which means we are going to have a tremendous amount of fun.

KAREN GODIN GLASS ARTIST

KAREN GODIN A VERY TALENTED ARTIST FRIEND OF MINE HAS SOME OF THE MOST STUNNING CONTEMPORARY GLASS ART YOU WILL SEE.

Here is the link to her PORTFOLIO at artwanted......Goding Glass is the BEST contemporary art to live with its fabulous fused functionality!

REDREAMING HOME

Theres just no way to describe the unsettledness that accompanies relocating so far...... first from my home of 12 years in Australia and then from Connecticut. Currently between one home ownership experience and the next feels like limbo more profound than i expected.

Interestingly i am not unhappy but it is a 'soil connection' i am missing ......obviously i have an inherent need to grow things and connect to the seasons through immersing myself in a garden.

I am beginning to redream my new place and home.