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hey lovers

some of you think i am dropping off the email cliff but i am not. been busy. as in BUSY!! mostly workity work work but also family famfam stuff.

i am trying not to get freaked out by the work stuff on my plate because what is the scariest thing is that my mind seems to be in Slow Motion ever since india. but i can feel the starter motor kicking over and so just know i will back to the grind any minute now.

so how was india? india was FullOn. she was fierce and unabiding and she was Take Me or Leave Me. india was a kind of serious and exhausting experience and completely inspiring. I met some lovely lovely and some funny funny and some smarti smart and some sad and some different and some ignorant and some fearless and some doers and some sayers and some lovers and some fighters kind of people over there.

and I even kissed a boy - shhhhhhhhhhhh. don't tell anyone. only he is an industry which i would find hard to live with because success for him means there must be War In The World. also has way too much money and just too much everything really. funny. but likes Nice Things. and Nice Girls. who are a bit dirrrty too. you know the type.

returned to png and news of a tsunami that struck the solomon islands hard and also touched our shores in bouganville and milne bay and this gave me HUGE impetus to get off my toosh and begin the Campaign Of Giving Away Half of Everything Ricebag Owns to the tsunami relief effort. which i did. wow. my house is a LOT emptier and so is my wardrobe. it took me 3 days to sort and sort so i sorted and then i gave it away now.

i feel good because i made a serious attempt to remove EXCESS - of just Too Much Having-Of-Things For One Baby. i feel good because shedding and sloughing all that Unnescessary was therapeutic. i feel good because i let go of sentimental schtuff which would be more use to someone else than to continue its life as a memento for me. i feel good because some things which had a life with me will continue their story in someone elses home. i feel good because being weighed down by less Belongings, means i am freer, i am easier, i am calmer.

and i felt so good that on the weekend i conned my cousins into coming over and scrubbing my house from top to bottom. and scrub we did. and then we bbq'd and drove around and around and around and hung with mamas and pappas and did the things that cousins do in this town - talk. and play k5 basketball mini-comps on the sandy courts of the ela beach flats. and then talk some more. and then played pool on the faded lean-to billyards table under the fluro lights stationed beneath my aunty dee's house. and then we ate. and talked. after we had cooked and talked.

so i had a cruisy w/end. especially when jaybird came to play with me on sunday. we shared church and then raisin buns on the verandah. miss 21soon came over and the afternoon was spent not doing very much at all except shandies.

so thats my run-down fellas.

loving and leaving.

as ever - ricebag