a murch moment

Have a seat.
Take a stand.
Want a brew?
Need a hand?
Grab a beer.
Ask the Q.
Roll a fag.
Light it too.
Take a drag.
Watch the smoke.
Flick the ash.
Tell a joke.
Repeat.

my auricular mind

i find my eyes,
they're underneath
underneath the stars
and in my mind,
i'm wandering,
to where ever i once was

i'm falling
into galaxies,
falling from the skies
running into strangers, and
the lights that
pass me by.

i'm wondering
i'm wondering,
i don't know where to go
i'm blundering
and blundering
and searching for a home

my life is turning
upside down
and inside out
and up
And all the while
I’m spinning round
And losing all that counts

i'm questioning
my everything
i'm confused about myself
i'm looking for
a balance point
a place that evens out

i'm wandering
i'm wandering
searching for a road to take
I’m blundering
And blundering
And trying not to wake

The world outside of
Laughing minds
Wanting my
Exotic kind
To execute
And design disguise
And lose all thoughts
Of enterprise.

And now I’ll rhyme
Just one more time
Try not to lose the plot
or reconcile
The image
Planted in my brain
So now I’ll stop
Or go insane.

I’m squandering
I’m squandering
And plotting out my life
I’m laundering
And laundering
And trying to make it right

I’m wondering
And wandering
And looking where to go
I’m pondering
And pondering
And finding out I’m home

First two weeks in New Zealand

now i'm in new zealand. i've been here for two weeks now. i spent a week in a place called raglan, which is a surf town on the north island. my good friend lucretia lives there. it's such a cool place. everyone is pretty chilled, laid back. kind of like home. i like it there. i've been in the south island in a little town called murchison for just over a week now. the first four days were rather inebriated. it was really good to see my best mate lee again. i met his missus, lina. she's alright. she doesn't seem to like me much though. i'm trying, not hard enough though. that's alright. it'll sort itself out. life will be good again. as a result of not getting along famously with lina, i've been spending increasingly more time with the rest of the family. i've spent a fair amount of time with joe, lee's 30 year old uncle. and with ben, lee's 17 year old brother. and of course i've been spending lots of time with gran dot as well. i've really enjoyed the family. a couple days ago i learned how to drive a 2 ton digger. it's easier to figure out than a playstation. pretty cooll. and today i learned how to shoot a rifle. i wasn't half bad either. good fun. i think i'm going "up the rainbow" tomorrow. the family has a cabin up rainbow mountain. most of the family is going up tomorrow morning, with a bunch of the boys coming up in the afternoon to do some hunting. they've invited me along, so that should be fun. it feels good being treated like part of the family, i reckon. and it's a pretty amazing family to be invited into. i'm pretty happy here. i'm being fed well, and i'm laughing often enough, life is good.
i miss you all back at home. i wish you all could come and see this amazing little communtiy and this amazingly gorgeous country. it's phenomenal.
xoxo

The rest of fiji

SO the rest of fiji was a complete blast!! i went to a little island called beachcomber island. it takes about 15 minutes to walk around it. i swam around it my first day there with a bloke called ricky. it was fun. there was lots of curry at meal times. and lots of fruit. and of course lots of alcohol. i danced so much my two nights there too. it was exactly what i needed. i've fallen in love with fiji really. it's paradise. the sea water is as warm as a bath. the sand is white, although we were on a couple coral beaches, so the sand wasn't always nice to walk on, but it was beautiful to look at. the people i was with were amazing as well. everyone got along really well. it was just so much fun to be there. i would go back in a heartbeat.