ATLAS HANDS

Happy Holidays Fawnlings!

This is a bit of a flashback post as I've only recently been able to look back at the photos with the bittersweet feeling being bearable. That's what travel and living in another place does - your heart just ends up crumbling into pieces all over the place and its not a clean cut down the middle, but a rather blurry mess. Perhaps its the fact that through social media I can see the everyday happenings of my friends there and they seem to be just beyond my fingertips. I crave simple day-to-day conversations face to face and joking around between classes. We're all happy where we are but somehow still wish to be in other places. The globes a funny thing wrapped in an invisible internet net and it can be deceiving; instantaneous communication while you're oceans apart.

I know I'll cringe when I read this over in the morning but for now that's how I feel, happy but a little lost and confused. I had a dream last night I was back with them and I woke up feeling disorientated in my own bed.

Will be back to ramble again,

Much love

- N xx

HIKIKOMORI

Konichiwa Fawnlings!

After a 10 hour movie marathon my sisters and I arrived in Japan on Wednesday night. A chilly 9 degrees, colder than anticipated seeing as it's Spring going into Summer here. Watched an absurd Japanese film called "Princess Jellyfish" alongside "The Theory of Everything", "Birdman" and "The Judge". It was an entertaining film perhaps solely because it was nothing like what I usually watch (Hikikomori is the Japanese word for a social recluse, this film being about one who falls in love with a cross-dresser).

Yesterday, I went for a walk with Carmi with my fisheye phone lens in tow, we discovered a path in the bamboo forest. We followed it up the slope until a roof came into view. At first we thought perhaps it was of the many abandoned houses in the mountains but upon closer inspection we discovered to our delight that it was in fact an old temple. We payed our respects and observed the solemn structure in awe. On our walk back I dropped my little lens and so spent a good ten minutes retracing our steps and scrambling up and down the path until I found it tucked beside a piece of bark.

Will keep you all up to date,

Stay well n warm,

- N xx

FADED GREY EYES

Hello Fawnlings!

Tassie flashbacks make me crave travel and mountains. Can't believe its the end of week 5 here in Sydney and we're almost halfway through the term! Had some leatherwood honey toast this morning and it triggered my memory - still more photos to post eek.

Hope you're all well,

- N x

TOTORO

 Flashback time fawnlings!

Going through my hard-drive and found folders of unpublished posts so here's a throwback to last year in Japan in the mountain town I lived in. It's my home away from home and to look back at these photos pull at my heartstrings. I might be going back at the end of this Term so there's the light at the end of the half-yearly exam tunnel. I'm a bit behind in areas and ahead in others so I'll work on my balance and get back to you. These photos were taken when we got lost looking for a tunnel in the mountains and traveled up an abandoned road.

Stay well and in passion pit spirit - take a walk,

Love,

- N xx