Happy Easter to all of you. I’m not doing much. My mission is to stay nice and still. My family back in Canberra is not doing much on account of, well, being a bit funeraled out. Friends are off up the coast with inlaws…
There’s a certain satisfaction to be derived from not doing what you’re meant to be doing, or not doing what everyone else is doing. I can get panicky at these times…thinking I’m missing out on grand trips to beach houses and big roast dinner celebrations with family. But, honestly, I’d prefer to do that kind of thing when other people aren’t.
One of these kids is doing their own thing!
Instead, I’m going bush running on Sunday (my favourite thing in the world to do) – just me and a map shoved down my running top. And reading a Jilly Cooper novel. Which is just so trashtastic.
Some things that interested me this week, and might you.
1. This picture of Mick Jagger. He has an eagerness in his eyes that I connect to.
2. This radish, strawberry and goats cheese salad from Cannelle et Vanille…crisp and bitter-sweet and pretty.
3. President Obama gets prayers sent to his Blackberry. So do I, from DailyOm. They are uncannily poignant and hit nails on heads all the time. I chatted to Madisyn who writes these little spiritual musings last week. Interesting fact: she gets her insights by setting aside Tuesdays to meditate and get flooded with ideas. She meditates with a notebook next to her and just feels where the world is at. You can check out today’s insight at the icon to the right there on my page.
4. The Elegance of the Hedgehog – a book that makes my heart just soar – has been made into a movie, out July 8. See the trailer.
5. They say in journalism, always be good to the copy kid (or work experience chick)…because they’ll probably wind up your boss. Or posting an interview about you on their clever blog, as Sarah at Wordsmith Lane did this week.
6. This video for “70 million,” by the band Hold Your Horses is divine.
And a perfect, perfect, perfect moment in whimsy. The tune is to skip to. Enjoy!
