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Finding Beauty

Posted by Josie on Jul 3, 2011 in Me, Moments, Photography | 12 comments

I’m a little obsessed with the idea of finding beauty just now. It’s almost becoming like this daily personal mission. Oh, it’s hard to describe… I’ll have a go.

I can’t bear the thought of wasted days, I think that’s what it is. It’s not that every day has to be endlessly productive, although those have always been my favourite kind of days if I’m honest, it’s more the sense that every day must have some meaning. I don’t mean meaning in the wider, spiritual sense, and I don’t mean it always has to mean something good. but I do like to close my eyes at night feeling like, oh I don’t know, like my world is a bit richer, or deeper. That there was a reason for me to be alive that day and get through to the end of it, even if that reason was pain or the kind of beauty that hurts a little to look at. It’s not always sunlight through trees, my idea of beauty. Sometimes it’s the kind of beauty that looks like dead things on snow. I don’t mean always pretty kind, not always the nice kind, but still full of meaning somehow, even if it hurts like hell.

Have YOU seen Advent Rabbit?

Posted by Josie on Dec 3, 2009 in Uncategorized | 9 comments

Afternoon.

So Kai is ill, it is cold and I find myself stuck inside with too much time on my hands – the kind of time where I can’t really get anything of real use done that requires any real concentration because I have a boy attached to my lap, but still the kind of time that needs filling, and oooh look my laptop balances just nicely on the arm of the sofa here so I can faff about on the internet and stroke his head at the same time.

Seems like most of us with a child are battling lurgies right now, tis the season and all that. And we’re all feeling a bit bleugh at the weather and the fact we’re all broke and our advent calendars taste like crap.

But never fear dear reader. For I, queen of creative procrastination have come to your rescue to bring you some light in the dark days ahead to keep you going till Chrimbotide.

Those of you that follow me on Twitter will know that I have been serialising the contents of Kai’s advent calendar into a sort of advent mini-drama. If any of you ever watched Sunset Beach (which is quite possible the greatest TV show in the history of LIFE), you’ll find it’s a bit like that only with more disproportionately sized plastic animals (compared to disproportionately sized plastic boobs and botox) and less smouldering but with just as much sex, death and evil twin action.

In any case it seems to have gone down rather well so for the rest of advent I will be bringing you the adventures of “Have YOU seen Advent Rabbit” via the magic of this magical blog.

Come see.