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 Sometimes it's not about the waves.

Today Wonder

every day has wonder, 

you just have to 

put in the effort

to look hard, 

to listen hard 

and to smile soft

Today Wonder

is also a song

by the former Saints guitarist

Ed Kuepper

Monochrome Monday (birthday)

Extremely large shout out to my best mate who has a certain birthday today.
So many good times together over the decades.

Let's keep surfing until we can't remember each other's names!
Your bithday card looks something like this Leunig Cartoon:

Bronze Aussie

iphone and photoshop chat 

while the first coffee brews 

and I look back on my life 

through the moments 

I have snared 

with lenses cheap 

and lenses 

worth a week or two's pay

TGIF

"Loneliness is black coffee 
and late-night television; 

solitude is herb tea 
and soft music. 

Solitude, quality solitude, 
is an assertion of self-worth,
because only in the stillness 
can we hear the truth 
of our own unique voices."

Pearl Cleage

Still / moving

“The inner is foundation of the outer

The still is master of the restless

The Sage travels all day
yet never leaves his inner treasure” 

― Lao Tzu

The Road

“Go outside. Don’t tell anyone and don’t bring your phone. Start walking and keep walking until you no longer know the road like the palm of your hand, because we walk the same roads day in and day out, to the bus and back home and we cease to see. We walk in our sleep and teach our muscles to work without thinking and I dare you to walk where you have not yet walked and I dare you to notice. Don’t try to get anything out of it, because you won’t. Don’t try to make use of it, because you can’t. And that’s the point. Just walk, see, sit down if you like. And be. Just be, whatever you are with whatever you have, and realise that that is enough to be happy.
There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.”

― Charlotte Eriksson

Monochrome Monday (the great curve)

The intersection of one curved surface and another curved surface as it rolls across yet another curved surface - board, wave, Earth.

James and Paul

Old x very old