Tonight at exactly 7.15ish, five unsuspecting friends will venture into the land of a new tradition. A night of poker. food. friends. The oscars playing unsuspectingly in the background and kids firmly tucked in bed.
I love boardgames, but not the crazy types that make the more quiet of us feel uncompfortable, but the ones that bring out the competitor, caveman, cavewoman vibes in all of us.
Favourite Things: The window in my new office the park…
Something about ikea that just excites my soul…Is it the $2 hot dogs, is it the refillable soda, nah I’ve just come from America, so Australian Ikea vibes is slightly pitiful…Its the funky furniture, the colour red, the silver, the beech…
We are shifting into our new venue for our north service this weekend…So me and Jen went shopping galore.
Love the random clocks, love the life span of the stuff, usually the caused by the crappy people who put the stuff together (usually me)
Anyways, lovin Ikea, what would we creatives with no money do without it.
Just had a conversation re: life being black and white, versus grey! Our office and organisation is going through the roof right now, and with much growth, and with much expansion comes a lot of grey!
Org charts that once worked, now faulter, communication systems that were great for a smaller staff/ organisation etc now are irrelevant. Life as you know it changes and what was black and white turns grey.
So as a creative person in the midst of change, what do you do to maintain a sense of direction and a clarity of purpose? My thought for today is to keep asking questions.
Questions are the sign of a great leader, a great friend, a great creative. Someone who doesn’t ignore the grey, but tries to colour it slightly with a new shade of white or black and bring it into some semblance of clarity!
Life not black and white, but is different shades of grey…Great questions bring clarity into the black and white colours, bringing a semblance of direction.
I love the word linger. Its rarely used but there is something so mystic and etherial about it. Stay a while, float, be, wait, engage, smile, think, LINGER.
In our world today so many people fling their way through life, rushing from one appointment to the next, one meeting to the next, one task till the next. However whilst bending over in the downward dog pose today at Body Balance, I was thinking we need to create a culture of lingering.
How much more would our children feel the love, how much more would waiting in queues not become such an issue, how much more would driving become an adventure rather than an ordeal.
When your at home, try turn off the phone, turn off the tv, maybe put a bit of music on, but just linger. Linger in your house, walk around, breathe deep and just be.
How about the next party you go too, find a compfy chair, open your heart up to the possibilities of someting new happening, don’t worry about the babysitter, what your wearing, who’s coming to the party, just LINGER.
It’s a stress relieving, life changing thought.
On one of the planes recently I watched the movie ‘A Good Year’ and it was about Russell Crowe, a mean spirited, hard core business, cut throat jerk, who inherits a vineyard in the south of France, who begins a journey of learning to LINGER.
Dance if you need to, turn off the internal dialouge if you need to, shake off the feelings of having to do something…if you need to…
