:: Lightness and Flashback Feelings

The last of the Ubud photos!

Gosh.

Sometimes I think I need a slap. I had such a good day today, you might want to roll your eyes at me.

I’m carrying that ‘lightness’ that you get when you have had a break, done work you loved and hung out with great people. Cool, right? Perhaps it stems from taking my own advice. Yes. It’s probably that.

I had breakfast with Kirsty and Cam at Mighty Boy.

I’ve spent time in my studio: finishing my book proposal for Book Six, stretching out on the floor listening to Episode Six of SERIAL and working on some other writing stuff.

I found a spare copy of Sia’s ‘Colour The Small One’ at the op shop (to keep at my studio!)

I had quinoa for lunch. With pomegranate seeds. I enjoyed it and it WASN’T EVEN THAT NICE!

I sat in the sun, waiting for a ride, and read some more of ‘The Strays‘.

Ari came home from camp and we listened to The Rolling Stones and chatted about Indian food together.

Cam made me an Aperol Spritz…

Like really, slap me now. It’s too much good, right?! Who do I think I am?! I like it a lot.

Also, I was reading a bit of Frank (my great grandfather) last night and I read the best thing!!!!

In these times of gratitude journals (which are great) Frank wrote about another good thing. He talked about when things were not going his way, how he loves to think back to a similar time when things were going swimmingly… and he loves to harness the feeling of the ‘going swimmingly’ day and bring it into the less-great here-and-now.

It’s a Frank kind of rad regression therapy… a sort of #flashbackfeelings

I think this is genius. I love it because it’s not external, it’s not based on achievements or things or acts… It’s all about stuff that’s within us and that appeals to my DIY nature.

Frank’s wise approach is based  on revisiting, memories and good feelings, knowing that we felt them once and they were ace, recognising that we might feel them again very soon (and if not, how cool to remember them again!)

Good on you Frank. You’ve always got some wisdom for me… Here’s how Frank put it. (Surprisingly he did not use the word ace!)

It’s a great art, this human angling, and needs infinite tact, and infinite subtilty and infinite patience. And above all, it needs a resolute determination never on any account whatever to be soured by disappointment. When I am tempted to wind up my line, and give the whole thing up in despair, I revive my flagging enthusiasm by recalling the rapture of my earlier catches… In the long and tedious hours when the waiting is weary and the nibblings vexatious and the bites disappointing, let him live on these wealthy memories as the bees live in the winter on the honey that they gathered in the summer-time.

FW Boreham – Such A Lovely Bite – from Mushrooms On The Moor

Hope your bites are not disappointing and your bees are honey filled!

x Pip