1st of June.
Marilyn Monroe was born 1926.
Helen Keller died 1968.
It is also Oscar the Grouch's birthday today.
If you're a farmer you might know today as Gypsy day (unlikely even that you are reading my blog, but hey you never know).

Something I have enjoyed hearing lately is people say 'small things'.
Whether it's about the little things in life they enjoy, poking fun at the oddities of others, it's a new saying to me.

Some small things I've enjoyed this week:
the sound of lentils being poured into a jar
watching someone bend down to pat a cat on their walk home
the smell of Vic Books coffee
clean feet in fluffy socks
cutting a persimmon in half, seeing it's sun shape, then sharing it with a friend.
Debbie Carlos series entitled Micro.
So cool.
In enlarging her negatives she picked out parts of photos which were background details, seeking out those little things, the image inside the image. This is a particular fave.

Check it out at http://debbiecarlos.com/index.php?/photography/micro/

loose change

The rediscovery of loose change has to be one of the cheapest thrills around.

Finding a token $1.40 gave me that 'some hi-5 me!' feeling and make me wonder what I will put this little treasure towards.

A friend of mine occasionally will hide herself a few dollars to rediscover some day and I know of someone who recently rediscovered €200 when cleaning her room! Man, never mind going out in search of treasure-just tidy up your bookshelf and boom!

Pleasant surprises are so good. I think I'm going to try and pleasantly surprise someone today.
I'll let you know.

Happy Monday!

Sounds like Autumn to me

Over the last two weeks I've daily observed the tree out my kitchen window. Slowly it has said good bye to it's leaves. It's now a naked tree, looking well under-dressed in cool the Wellington breeze.

I really love Autumn. Tea. Toast. Scarves. Trees. Leaves. Puddles. These are all very good things. There is something to be said about how music can capture a moment in time, a feeling, or, a season. I've had a bit of a revival with Liam Finn over the last few weeks. You could say after first hearing him a couple of years ago, I've grown into his sound. He just hits the Autumn nail on the head for me. The moody piano, the tinkly electric moments, the whelming choir- so good. His whole album 'I'll be Lightning', is bliss.

You should probably go out and buy the album or come to my house and listen to it because youtube is not fronting up with a decent recording for many of the songs. However, this is a bit of gold:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVpfGQ3TvPA

Happy last few days of Autumn.