I love this image. It reminds me of how I was when I was about nineteen...and as much as I'm loathe to admit it, how I'm not very much now. Still, I do have a little spontaneity left in me.I went to Sydney on Wednesday to attend the Happiness & Its Causes conference. But it all went a bit pear shaped.
I got a call in the cab just as I'd landed asking me to appear on 'The Morning Show' the following day. It's not often I get asked to be on television and it's good publicity so I said yes. I figured the happiness people wouldn't miss me for a few hours.
A few other things cropped up along the way and when I finally arrived at the conference after lunch, my booking had been mislaid. I decided it was a sign. It was a beautiful Sydney day and the harbour beckoned. I took myself out into the sun to play.
I wandered through the Botanic Gardens, had a glass of wine by the water in the afternoon sun, walked for what felt like hours, had dinner with my fabulous clients Zoe and Greg at Fratelli Paradiso in Potts Point.
On Friday morning I indulged in a coffee and croissant for breakfast in the sun at Darling Harbour, met another client at Sheraton on the Park where they served us delicate little ribbon sandwiches with the crusts taken off and real leaf herbal tea. I felt like I'd been transported into another world. It was complete decadence.
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5 comments:
Sounds like it worked out beautifully in the end. Glad you had such a lovely (and happy) time.
ALSO... I have just given you an awe-summm award for being such an awesome blogger! Come and drop by my blog and join in the celebrations!
Sounds totally fantastic. And I love a tea with fancy sandwiches.
How did the television thing go. You are so beautiful I bet you lit up the screen.
You know how things can seem so surreal. Well as I was reading your first sentence, it is almost exactly like a sentence I wrote a couple of days ago for a post on how I feel I have gotten worse in age instead of better spiritually.
Oh and about the body and not knowing. I couldn't agree with you more.
I see you know Jactina, one of my favourite people of all time.
Love Renee xoxo
kate, you deserved this day, little sandwiches and all. i think if we were to ever meet we would be comfortably chatting away and smiling at eachother from the first moment.
i've written a first draft book on happiness--who is and who isn't and why and why not. i put it away when my agent pushed me to make it sing songy, like '12 things you must know...' it meant to much to me to do that but one day i will get it done my way, for better or worse.
when are you going to bali? are you?
love
kj
Thanks for the award Jacinta. I've finally passed it on!
I love those fancy sandwiches too Renee...and thank you for saying that about my tv appearance. You always say the kindest things.
kj, what a shame about putting your book away. I gather you are starting a new writing project from your blog which looks fantastic! I can't wait to see the end result. I'm not sure about Bali yet. We need just a few more takers before we can go ahead. Wanna come??
wanna come? hmmmmmm.
(wheels are turning...very little is actually impossible)
hmmmmm.
xoxo
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