Wednesday Wordage (wandering westerly)

The plan for today:

land some pixels in cyberspace

percolate coffee on a gas stove

(well, reverse those two)

wash old timer body

scrape sharp object

across lathered face

taxi it to airport

spy countryside

from 400000 feet

tap toes to the Stones

and the Stone Roses

land on the other side

of this Oz island

hire a car

experience The West

back in a week

peace

Of time and tide

"But if in your thought you must measure time

into seasons, let each season

encircle all the other seasons,

And let today embrace the past with remembrance

and the future with longing"

from The Prophet by Kahil Gibran 1923

Have an enriching weekend.

Multi Tasking

I'm cleaning my teeth while the dishwasher earns it's keep, while the computer obediently batch processes numerous images into suitable formats and the washing machine again ponders the cycle of life for cotton. All this multi tasking frees up enough time for me to flick quickly through Simon Anderson's book Thrust and steal a few backward glances to those carefree days when my surfboards went from one to two to three fins.

Putting that whole "who-did-it-first?" surf board design history argument aside, this is a beautiful book. Full credit to the designer Ben Tuffy and Noosa legend Carl Tanner who made some of his collection of vintage boards available. Full credit also to the back-in-the-day film crew - Divine, Merkel, Pithers, Crawford (RIP),  McLeod, McCormack and Kidman whose shots augment an entertaining read courtesy of the heavy pounders of the keyboard - Jarrat, Fitzgerald, Hynd, Carroll and again Kidman.

And of course last word goes to big Mr Anderson:

"I've been working hard for many years.

I went to Japan three to four times a year 

for 12 years and shaped 

15 boards a day for 10 days straight.

I've worked hard over the years, 

so I want to shape less, 

but I still enjoy the creative process, 

especially when it's a board for myself"