so long sweet Solscape

Moving on today, and tho I’ve only constructed a week’s worth of comfort here, that vague stirring of anxiety at the change has been present all morning. The stretch of these tender new human bonds over time and space, all my beautiful birds who I would walk into the forest/jungle to listen to every day, and the pups… I will miss this place. Excited tho’ for the next “adventure” -  up on Mt Karioi and a bit more into “the bush”…  there’s a sauna there… AND LAUNDRY FACILITIES!!!! …color me thrilled to pieces :)))
I got some helpful information and potential leads on some volunteering for the last few weeks of my time in NZ, which is pretty exciting…fingers crossed. In the meantime, after next week I head south and inland to Taupo, then west to Mt Maunganui… and then, we’ll see.
ok, what the.. I am sitting in the cafe and on the playlist comes “songbird” (fleetwood mac), which I bawled my eyes out to during the days in Victoria around my brother's death in July…I haven't heard it in any other context for, what, 20 years? and now it is playing for just me, here high on a hill, in New Zealand. The world is a strange place… kinda hope I don't start bawling now… just because… <3
I will gaze out at the grey green sea one more time from this vantage point,then,  for Geoffrey. love & much ache at your loss, my brother