Cath Crowley is the author of the multi–award-winning Graffiti moon as well as several other books for young adults and children.
Yesterday, I went swimming for the first time in years. I learnt
that bathers are frail things
that there needs to be a really slow lane
that I like to float
but that I don’t have a natural buoyancy
that I no longer care what I look like in bathers
or what I look like when I’m out of my bathers (accidentally, just for a few seconds)
that gliding underwater, for a while, stops the world
Excited about seeing Amiina tonight - Sigur Ros’ string section.
I think it will be a very beautiful performance.
Went back to 1999 this weekend.
e e cummings - how I wish I could write like you
(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands
The cool red shoes that I loved when I was two.
Happy birthday me.
This bird is very beautiful but that’s not the best thing about him. My niece bought him because proceeds from the sale go to charity. Nice one, Charlie. (And I’m calling him Robert.)
No party is complete without some dinosaur fun on the carpet.
Went to the aquarium to see the jelly fish water dancing.
Too hooked, maybe.
Magnetic Poetry App. I’m hooked.
Every day is pretty good when you have a place to live and food and books to read. But every now and then you get a perfect day.
I wrote in a sunny spot for a while.
A friend told me about a book that I know will be beautiful because all the books he recommends are that way.
A good friend sent me an email to tell me that he loved Graffiti Moon.
I went for a walk and my IPod shuffled great songs. Lots of M.Ward. Like this one.
M. Ward – Never Had Nobody Like You (Live on Letterman) from Donaat Dieryck on Vimeo.
Then later it got really good.
I rode to my brother’s house for dinner.
He cooked from scratch while I hoola-hooped in the garden with my niece and nephews and chatted to my sister-in-law Cate.
About a month ago Cate called to find out my favourite word.
And then tonight I got this box.
With this inside.
And this on top.
Even better, there was this card.
And even better, my very, very, very talented nephew made me a graphic novel. Spike and Cocky The Bug Paramedics. © Declan Crowley
Best present ever.
Two very cool bugs with a big dream. With his permission, here are some of the amazing illustrations and text.
And then I rode home. It was dark and my bike light made tunnels that lit up the rain.
We make light roads across each other
She orbits slowly, anti clockwise, like she’s unravelling air bandages
paints birds trapped on brick walls and people lost in ghost forests
