Sunday

Lei è arrivata




Our beautiful friend Serena has come to visit us for the first time in two years. Sere used to live in Cape Town; initially came to visit for a month and ended up spending four years. Perhaps we can get her to stay longer this time round?

She lives in Parma, Italy, and facilitates creative events and gatherings, curates exhibitions and vintage fairs. She also has the most impeccable taste - in true Italian fashion. She has arrived with a massive suitcase full of European-smell clothing, detailed dresses and shoes stuffed in pouches bearing impressive brand crests on them. With every garment she pulls from the surplus of suitcase, breath bating, I realise how desperately I must make my trek beyond where I am now. The clothing symbolic of the texture I am craving, the inspiration and the fibres I must gather to make up my bigger suitcase (if you will). Pack suitcase, soon.

Serena is here. The timing could not be more perfect.

Tuesday

Frivolity for the win


So here I am.

After almost a year of absence and/or neglect of this blog, I have reinvented its look and decided to revive its potential. 2010 was a turbulent year for me and I felt my writing drying up as the year progressed. Distractions and a short coming of inspiration.

Alas, 2011 promises adventures and more play. I am a free agent. Chose to pursue a path of 'what I like doing' rather than 'how to keep climbing'. How this approach will pan out, time will tell, but for now I am happy to be writing again. At least. These days there seems plenty of time for introspection and assessment of self, yet it does seem like I am too distracted to really follow the latter through. Perhaps life is too good - frivolity for the win.

I hope that I will regain your readership, captivate your bored asses at work and have you reading, well, whatever my bored ass feels like writing about. For now. Also, Das Hasen Ohr will decisively be less about naked bums and naughty nuns and more themed and streamlined. How so, I have yet to decide. I am contemplating, for one, character profiles on those individuals who I find particularly entertaining (read: Khimmal); intriguing, fascinating and inspiring. A way to sharpen my tools, and share with you the most subtle nuances and details that captivate me everyday, thus keeping me from keeping the focus. Too much attention to detail, sooo much to see. It's my friendly foe.

Nice to see you again. Keep squinting at the sun. At least you're looking up.