Tag: travel
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Sand and Sheep
I have reached the sea. The long gorgeous Kapiti Coast. There is a swell and the coast is wild. Murky. Windy. Whipping waves. Divine. The wind is down as I write. Early morning. So I will get out there before everyone wakes up. Though I am sure I will have a few little people (…
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The First Real New Zealand Day
I found myself floundering a little these first few days in New Zealand. We had a death on the farm. Which knocked me sideways. But yesterday finally I walked and found my feet and began to smell the air and hear the Tuis. Where I grew up – on a beach in New Zealand –…
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The Walk and The landing
The world is out of kilter when I have no farm animals to manage. So I set my mind to writing. And as you and I have established; the first thing I set up on arrival anywhere is my writing corner. Yesterday I set up my office on the long wooden table. Gently relocating laundry…
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The Family Web of Survival
Most of what we do is mere survival. We assume it means nothing. Cleaning. Bathing. Avoiding the phone. Sleeping. Eating. Washing our hair. Sitting on the toilet thinking. Sweeping the floor. Grocery shopping. The smile for the person in the store. Food for our friends chased from their homes into our gutters. Mascara. Fighting the…
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San Francisco. TKG Travel
There is a whole history of people writing travel logs that stretches back through hundreds of years. Lots of our favorite writers wrote entire novels at little tables by the sea in far away places. ‘There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately no-one knows what they are.’ Somerset Maugham. Right? But air travel…
The Kitchen's Garden 