The second day of December started with a dark and moody sunrise…
(c) K Wicks
The Holiday (Movie) and Hyperphantasia
This isn’t a review because it’s not about the film as a film but more a point of interest within it – but can say from a review standpoint having watched it all the way through – it didn’t quite deliver. Face to face I can talk about films for hours but online I try to keep it brief.
This is your average rom com with popular leading actors with Cameron Diaz playing one of the leads in her bright smiley way (she is pleasant to watch). But the reason I bring up this film in a non review context and her character in particular is that there were two specific moments that perfectly showed what I think Hyperphantasia is or at least it gave a good visual representation of it. Which was actually quite handy as my husband has Aphantasia so for him, he can’t ‘imagine’ what’s it’s like. This was a good way for him to actually ‘see’ what I had been trying to tell him about my sometimes seemingly neurotic brain. He managed to sit through a small portion of the film having less of a tolerance for watching pap than I do, but he hot the point.
The two examples that stick with me after the fact are –
She is trying to sleep, and the next day starts running through her head, almost causing a panic attack because it was so frantic and busy. I know this process well. And the second is when she is explaining to the potential love interest why it wouldn’t work out and runs through the entire scenario she has already worked out in her mind. These two things in particular were and are exactly what I do (although this movie wasn’t about Hyperphantsia, I spotted what I now see as the signs of it). Until I knew how my husband thought i.e. no pictures, no imagining tomorrow, and sure as hell no run through of any conversation he had had previously, or was going to have in the future. I had believed everyone had this frantic level of thinking, planning and general non stop thoughts. I thought everyone thought through what they were going to do later than day, or the next day. I think I believed they just managed it better than me and didn’t get bogged down by it. But now I know better…
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Up Close With Nature — Jane Lurie Photography
The calm of nature’s designs.
Up Close With Nature — Jane Lurie Photography
Japanese pink anemone
I finally got around to filing the multitude of photographs I have taken over the last 6 years. It’s only now I can start to fully appreciate the amount of different flowers that I have seen. So far I have named over 60 and haven’t quite finished. Sorry if flowers aren’t your thing, there’s going to be a lot more coming up! Starting with the Japanese anemone which we had in abundance in the UK where I used to live. A very pretty flower.
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Maya’s blanket
It’s funny when you get a dog, you think at first there are her things and there are your things, then you realise everything sort of becomes her things. It doesn’t help that since the lockdowns started occuring, all her toys and treats have arrived by post, so of course any post that arrives now is cause for extra excitement and she thinks is for her.
My excitement comes from seeing my photography as products (simple things and all that). This one is an Autumn shot from a few years ago of a frosty leaf and one I was keen to see what it looked like in real life on products (I have over 1200 designs and there are 90 products for each, so I know I am never going to get to see them all). But when the soft comfy colourful blanket arrived, it didn’t take long for it to become Maya’s. I now have various cushions, coasters, blankets around my house and about five bags in use! So much brightness and nature definitely keeps me going through the dark cold winter months. A bit of the outside, but inside. Some of the frosty leaf products below and links to them in case anyone else needs some brightness in their life.
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I used to think… (poetry)
I used to think
I was just perturbed
But now it’s gone
To full disturbed
Each little thing
Down to my core
Is telling me
There’s something more
Feeling like
A pawn in a plan
No longer sure
When this all began
By searching hard
I can but try
To separate
The truth from lie
(c K Wicks
Rhyme and Reason
St Mary’s Chapel
From the Spectacle of Light event a couple of years ago, this is one of my favourite’s from the night. Henry the VIII’s sixth and final wife Catherine Parr spent her final months at Sudeley Castle and is laid to rest in St Mary’s Chapel there. I have seen it in the day light too, and it’s nice, but splash colourful lights on things and it makes my eyes very happy!
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A Reason to Exist
We’re freaks living in a meaningless world! There’s nowhere to go, you fools! Monster shouted. -There is no more to find, no more to see!
-There has to be! We neeeeeeed it to be! There has to be something more than this, something that makes sense!
Nose sat there, chewing on the grass he ate yesterday. He had heard this conversation many times before, it was getting old. After a while he said: -I think it does make sense, really. The grass, the rocks. I think it’s all pretty meaningful.
-We need something to give the grass meaning! If not, there’s no meaning at all!
-Exactly! Monster said, frustrated. -There is none. Cope with it.
Nose kept chewing… (more)
Sunrise – 05.12.20
It was a colourful one this morning, brief, but lovely.
(c) K Wicks
They can never
They can never really quite factor in all the variables. Despite the determined consistencies, there will always be the ‘rogue element’ that persists in disrupting the perceived outcome.
Be the rogue element, not a determined consistency.
(c) K Wicks
