No kidding. Today I have been feeling off the chart happy.
Let’s sit with a thought a moment. Eddie Vedder released an album of ukulele songs. Sweet. Some other good things are happening too, which feels pretty nice.
Here is where I’m at.
But I don’t want to lose focus, because we are getting close to our goal. In that our goal is getting a patch on someone’s sleeve. Now. The patches are on order, less beautiful that I would have wanted, but they are occurring at a very rapid pace, so this is good. Part of this goodness is one Ms Natalya.
She has been in London for god knows how long now, and left her bike behind in the move to Seattle recently. There, however, she found her heart. Which is a good thing to find.
And, having found her heart, Natalya is finding other things great and good too and is sponsoring Emma to find things good and better and best in the name of the FRED Wildlife Refuge.
I like FRED because they like PINK.
Here’s what Tals has to say about FRED.
It was launched earlier this year by Chris Snell and Fae Phalen, performers and producers at the heart of some of the best creative work going on in the city – much of what I photograph, and especially the hot glam burlesque cirque stuff, is created by either or both of them. The intention behind FRED is to give performers and artists a space to create, rehearse, exhibit and perform, and to collaborate in new and interesting ways. There are also commercial applications of the space, including private events and shoots for magazines and music videos. Chris and Fae are generous and full of fun and encouragement, and have made a big contribution to the best times I’ve had this year – as a photographer or just a punter. The fact that there is a wonderful arts incubator like FRED to play in makes me very happy and is one of my favourite things about Seattle.
(see how I learnt a new thing – blockquote)
Now, I haven’t seen Tals in person in a very long time, but somehow through the magic of the internet, I don’t feel like a stalker on an old friend’s life, I just feel really happy and pleasantly suprised that someone that I knew was always a lil bit wonderful, is such a rich and creative individual with diverse interests and eclectic passions. She is our one and only international sponsor, and I am honoured to have her here.
She makes me want to join the circus. Or at least look good in a horse. Not enough men wear eyepatches these days. Which maybe could be a good thing, but fashion wise, not as much of a good thing. Anyway over time, my respect for Tals has not waned on bit. I’m pretty sure if I met Tals now, I’d like her just as much as I did in first year uni, and probably I’d think she was one of the cool girls that I really wanted to make friends with me, just like in first year.
Pretty much the only thing that would get me right off the Joy-O-Meter is if I was back in Melbourne to be able to enter this WHICH IS COMING UP ON FRIDAY. For those who don’t remember, the Dirty Deeds Cyclocross is the best fun you can have on two wheels while getting dirty. Malachi from Northside Wheelers is keen to show most excellent support for a women’s podium. For this – We Need Women to Ride. And Fitrzoy Revolution, the Bike Store I Used to Be Able to Go Into, may or may not be running some women’s dirt skills stuff.
You know you want to. Get yourself on board in two days please.
Because this how the Joy-O-Meter looks in person (thanks Jess and Mik). Truly the image of the whole series for me.
PS I shall, instead be watching the women’s football in the last match before the Queensland Sunfires head off to the freezing wilds of Adelaide.
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