Life is good.

• Twin Holy Days in Haifa
• Christmas in Paris with wonderful family
• CT in Verona
• Visiting family in Lyon and Amsterdam
• a bunch of other trips

= Life is good.

Excitement comes in threes

Three things providing excitement:

• I have an increasing number of concerts/gigs/festivals to look forward to for my first month back in Sydney - (Future Music, Angus & Julia Stone, Matisyahu, Gipsy Kings and Buena Vista Social Club) - Horray for the world, we're glad to be on it!
• I just discovered that Angus of Angus and Julia Stone has released a solo album under then name 'Lady of the Sunshine' - its brilliant! Click here to hear some of his songs
• It has come to my attention that none othere than the AMAZING Ludovico Einaudi has a new album, Night Book, I am yet to hear any of the songs but I am certain of its brilliance... now to get my hands on a copy!

Find your wings

You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust.
You were born with ideals and dreams.
You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don't.
You have wings.
Learn to use them
and fly.

~ Rumi

Pic: Source

Better this, than summing up my thoughts

I wondered what would be the worth of my words in the world
if i write them and then recite them are they worth being heard
just because i like them does that mean i should mic them
and see what might unfurl

i think of the significance of my opinions here
is it significant to be giving them does anybody care
just because i'm into this does that mean i should live like it
and really do i dare

art, art i want you
art you make it pretty hard not too
and my heart is trying hard here to follow you
but i can't always tell if i ought to

so i pondered the point of my art in this life
if i make it will someone take it and think it's genuine
will they be glad that i did 'cause they got something good out of it
will they leave me and be any more inspired

i question the outcome of the outpouring of myself
if i tell everyone my stories will this keep me healthy and well
will it give me purpose, to this world some sort of service
is it worth it, how can i tell

art, art...

(Tanya Davis)

Hopenhagen.

Today marks the first day of the 15th United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. I am lucky enough to be Copenhagen during this historic week of negotiations that seek to bring about an agreement across the world on how to target the issue of Global Warming. The city is buzzing, with thousands of people flooding into the city in the hope of being a part of a potentially significant moment in history. The success of this Conference has been widely debated and the result is still very unknown, but with time running out to make a significant change we can only hope that there will be a deal reached here in Copenhagen. As the Danish Prime Minister has said, "A deal is within our reach." Lets hope he is right!

On the 17th and 18th of December, 110 heads of states and governments will come to Copenhagen in an attempt to seal a political global climate deal. If a deal is agreed, the UN will aim at transforming it into a legally binding text to replace the Kyoto Protocol as its regulations of emissions expires in 2012. Sign the petition here:

However, regardless of the outcome in Copenhagen, further meetings will most definitely be necessary to finalise the "rules" of any new treaty. Anything done without spiritual insight is flawed, and the world still hasn't realised this. Although there is all this talk about active change and the public becoming more aware of the impacts of climate change, ultimately the world's leaders are still too focused on the economic impact of modifying the current system of functioning.

Treaty or no treaty, a new world order has to be established before any real 'change' will occur. Until then.. temperatures will keep rising, ice caps will continue melting and Australians will keep dying of skin cancer because the hole in the Ozone layer continues growing.

I'm no climatologist, or expert in any field for that matter, but I know that it will take more than a treaty to bring about the kind of change that is needed to save the world from its impending doom.

blank-screen sleep-texting machine

Andy Warhol, Shadow 1978

Could you stop haunting my dreams?

It is utterly disconcerting and,
quite frankly,
I've had enough.
Cheers.