Spring twilight ramblings...

[maharetr]

I love this time of year, you walk home and the world is golden with setting sunlight, and it's a little cool or a little warm but whatever it is it's right. I'm in the living room at the moment with the curtains open and the late afternoon is sprawling on the couches.

I'm listening to Clare Bodich and the Feeding Set, a new CD of a JJJ group/singer, retail therapy for a so-so uni mark. This is proper porch music, or Freo music, or something good and pure. Turning the radio seems all wrong, so I've put it on random and dancing around the room periodically. This time of day is all wrong for assignmenting. There's faint purple on my fingers still from mulberry-tree foraging. You shouldn't be writing assignments with mulberry juice on your fingers. There's something fundamentally and instinctually wrong about that.

So the light and the juice must fade, first.

I'm home alone this evening and it's luxurious. I don't quite know what to do with myself. I want to light a candle when it gets proper-dark enough, but after that… there's a lot of 'I shoulds' in a list at the moment. They'll be gotten to, in time.

When I have my own place, or my own place to rent, I want there to be lots of nights like this, walking home from work at 5 with the world all golden and un-spiralling at home with the evening unrolling under my tapping fingers.

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[cricketk.livejournal.com]

I love you.

That's exactly how I would have felt about today if I hadn't been sleeping.

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

*loves you back lots*

I'm all interested to know if the rising dawn has similar qualities as the afternoon twilight. Obviously, they'd be different, but is it be the same delicious tingle? Does it vary with the seasons? Do you of the six thirty ay em starts know of these things? :D

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

Mornings feel much sharper, mostly because the air is cooler. The shadows fall differently to any other time of day. If you don't regularly get up early, everything seems slightly off-kilter and surreal. The edges on the buildings are sharper than in the afternoon and all the plants are stretching up and out.

Dawn at the beach in summer is glorious. The water changes from grey to silver with pink in it and then to blues as the sun fully rises. It's calm and soothing and the waves make the quietest sounds on the sand. Impossible to resist swimming.

Dawn in winter is shockingly cold - it's tingly all over and not as bright, but if you ever get the chance to watch a winter's dawn from Mosman Park lookout or from a particular point on Stirling Highway facing the city, you'll see a fat red sun looming behind the skyrises and that tight-throat moment of beauty and threat.

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

Guhhh... *loves you back lot and lots*

I really need to start getting up to see the sunrise. I manage it in winter by default, but summer sunrise is one of those rare things.

I remember one weekend staying at a friends place, three of us sat out on a couch all night and talked. We weren't facing the sun, but it sneaked into the yard anyway and crept around creating stronger and stronger shadows. We were in the middle of suburbia but it was so still, so still we could have been in the outback, and there was a faint breeze that made it feel like being near the ocean.

[cricketk.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you read jenlev's LJ?

She just posted this, which made me think of this post of yours.

Jenlev's wonderful - she does nature posts, birds-I-have-seen posts, archeology squee and wonderful, insightful SGA posts.

I think she's nifty!

[mynxii.livejournal.com]

you are amazing.

i love the way you see the world... i love the sensuality, the ethereal mysticism... i love the way i can hear your voice as i read the words... how i can almost taste the mulberries....

i am awed by you.

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

*blushy* Thank you, darling.

How's the stress levels? :)

[mynxii.livejournal.com]

much better.... :)

*purrryness*

things are looking up just got freaked out and scared and over stressed by too manyt hings wanting most of my attention all at once and me going AAARRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah been there, done that, still there. Three assignments to go, then free, free, free. Even writing the word over and over isn't quite enough to get me motivated. I'm going to cook tea (can you say procrastination, kiddies? Knew ya could! :D)

I'll probably be at the b'day brekkie at the Dome on Sunday, other than that I'll be elbow-deep in said assignments, so I'll either see you there or in a week or so :)

[mynxii.livejournal.com]

won't be at brekkie, so hopefully before fandomedia, and if not, definitely there *cuddles and purrryness*

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

Ooo, yes, fandomedia! I need to be paying you money for memberships and bugging you for details and accomodation and stuff. How much do I owe you?

[mynxii.livejournal.com]

on the day $55

accomodation is through the Emerald Hotel

i'm still unsure of whether K's staying in at the hotel with me... will let you know definitely this week.

its 19-20th November ummm registration is from 9am :)

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

I love you lots and lots.

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

I loves you ...........this..........much (like, huge lots&lots) :D *snuggles*

How goes Woofer's recovery?

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmm.

Well-ish, still coughing a lot but not vomiting and in a perky mood.