looping, knotless netting, knotted netting, coiling, twining 

ancestral memory 
brain slows to idle
fibres relax with finger's caress

familiar
process
timeless
rhythm 

fingers

sensing
unity
connection
space 

​spirals

slow
languid 
graceful
dance

Today, 13th September 2022, Aotearoa/New Zealand's mask mandate has been lifted.

I made my first mask on 13th August 2020.
It became my favourite & when we arrived home from our holiday, September 2nd 2022, I was really saddened to discover I had lost it.
Officially i no longer need it. 
Can't help thinking of the various 'comfies' we carry throughout our lives. 
The sense of safety & calm they bring us doesn't need to be explained, especially if they do no harm to others.

We had planned for a trip to Australia in 2020.
We changed plans.
We changed destinations.
We went north, up to Cairns & Port Douglas.

My god it felt so good
to be anonymous
to be unreachable

to hear multiple languages
to not be able to understand
nor even need to

to be languid

to be warm
to see the sunrise at 6am 
to hear the birds 

to see people smiling
to see the families 
to be with my family

to be part of something & simultaneously totally separate
to be exhausted by the newness, the noise, the kilometres walked, the over eating

to sleep deeply
without dreams
without waking in the night

​to wake & feel free

to feel calm
to feel happy
to feel alive

to live in the now
​knowing there will be no interruption
no distraction
​nothing to do except be present 

I love Australia
My heart melts with love the moment we cross the coastline to arrive 
& melts with sadness the moment we cross the coastline to leave