Friday 31 January 2014
Thursday 30 January 2014
Wednesday 29 January 2014
Tuesday 28 January 2014
Day 28 - The Deep Roar of the Ocean
The break of waves on farther shores that thought can find.
The silent thunders of the deep.
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Monday 27 January 2014
Sunday 26 January 2014
Saturday 25 January 2014
Day 25 - If
I read - and loved - this poem long before I had a son. Now it resonates with me even more.
'If' by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!
Friday 24 January 2014
Thursday 23 January 2014
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Tuesday 21 January 2014
Monday 20 January 2014
Sunday 19 January 2014
Saturday 18 January 2014
Friday 17 January 2014
Thursday 16 January 2014
Day 16 - Lovebird
My eldest daughter sewed me a bird today. She knows I am doing a photo-a-day blog and wanted me to take a photo of it and make it the photo of the day. There was never any question...
A gift made with patience and love. It should be shared.
Wednesday 15 January 2014
Tuesday 14 January 2014
Monday 13 January 2014
Day 13 - Backyard Cricket
You would think that days of forty degree temperatures (and above) would put you off.
Nup.
Five years-old and cricket-mad.
Sunday 12 January 2014
Saturday 11 January 2014
Friday 10 January 2014
Thursday 9 January 2014
Wednesday 8 January 2014
Tuesday 7 January 2014
Monday 6 January 2014
Day 6 - Desperation Cat
What do you do when you've been flat-out all day and lacking inspiration? Break out the photo-a-day Desperation Cat*.
*Not to be confused with Desperation Dog.
Sunday 5 January 2014
Saturday 4 January 2014
Friday 3 January 2014
Day 3 - Second-hand Books
A mix of titles I bought from a second-hand shop in a tiny Wheatbelt town. There is something about pre-loved books, with their hand-written front page dedications, and the alternate stories in the underlined passages and notes scrawled in the margins...
Thursday 2 January 2014
Wednesday 1 January 2014
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