home?

Where are you from?
Uuuuhhh…

Madeinkneyaborninhalifaxbredinbasingstokegrewupinzambiateenagerinoxfordstudiedinbrightonandi’mstillhere

Oh. Right.

So… where’s HOME?

Hmm…

Home can be a house and home can be a place
Home can be a person and home can be an embrace
Home can be a smell or a secret smile
Home can be a corner or a square mile…
Miles… a whole island. Or perhaps the sea.
Home can be a nation and home can
Just
Be
Me
Home can be private or something we share
Home we only notice when we realise it’s not there
Home we long for and home we miss
Home we search for and about home we reminisce
But home is often seen through rose tinted lenses
And when we look more carefully it’s not always as we remembered
But home’s not home cuz it’s perfect or else we’d never fit…

For some it’s four walls and a painted front door
Smells of apple crumble and coming back for more
For some it’s much less tangible like fleeting memories of a dream
It constantly eludes them on the blurry edges of their feeling

Oh home won’t you come find me?
For I am tired of searching
Perhaps you’ll surprise me with a visit one day
When I’ve forgotten what you mean to me
Perhaps you’ll wander in as I sit with a cup of tea
And dear friends
Perhaps you’ll join us at the table as we share food and stories
Perhaps you’ll creep in gradually
Silently
When I no longer care about what I wear
Or the state of my hair
Like a well thumbed book, I’ll be easily read

Yes yes!
Perhaps you’ll enter with a song and a dance
When I am just being myself
At last.

doodles

2011

happy new year peeps!

here's to a GOODUN'.

enjoyed celebrating last night with great friends, good food, bit of charades, partay..., good wine, brazilian music, samba, living room dancing, cup of tea and chats at 5am, picnic breakfast with candles. yep, an all nighter. it's been a while, i need to go to more parties, have got a bit too serious this year!

not thought about it a whole lot, but resolutions/aims that spring to mind for 2011 are:

- WRITE MORE

- DANCE MORE

- 'BE STILL' MORE

wanderer

no sledging today then!

Thursday...

Yesterday...

And today!

Awake!

Come come my lover
Come come come away with me
Come come come run with me
Run with me further than you ever thought you…WE… could go
Ohh run run with me my darling
Hand in hand we will stride out
Taking new territory
Chasing away the darkness

You don’t believe me

You have stopped believing in impossible dreams.

Fix your eyes on me
Look into my eyes and see and see and see
That WITH ME
All things all things all things
(nothing can separate)
All things all things all things
(everything you need)
All things all things all things
(dare to dream, oh, dare to dream)
All things all things all things
(Put all your hope in me)
All things all things all things
ARE POSSIBLE.

I knock on the door
And I won’t give up on you
And I will wait for you in eager anticipation
The groom awaits his bride
And I will pursue you
Shower you with gifts from above
And I will run to you
When you call my name
And I’ll come in gladly to sit at your table and eat with you

Listen!
I am calling you
Beckoning you
A voice in the wilderness drawing you near
My dear my dear my dear
HAVE NO FEAR

Awake awake o sleeper
Awake awake o sleeper

The wild bells ring out
Now is the time
To arise and shine
Now is the time
To dance and sing and shout

Awake awake o sleeper

Shake off the lethargy
Shake off the timidity
I have made you a ROARING LION
Don’t be afraid to use your voice
I am the roar in you and the world needs to hear it
The world needs to hear
Because that roar it will shake foundations,
It will break down walls,
It will burst open cage doors
Allowing the birds to fly free
Oh join them flying free
Into the space
See
it awaits
it beckons
it calls

Katrina Pike
(November 2010)