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Seasonal

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to stop , for a moment

they say to write it down when you feel it coming upon you the strongest

in these moments I am calm and I am a storm of electric stars, connected

there is a luminosity about today

it is almost as if the cool, thin, sharp air that travelled over the fog-laden ocean has renewed my breath and sharpened my focus. All in a delightfully underhand attempt to illuminate my true affections for all that life offers me in these days.

i am physically nestled in between a pumpkin spice orange wall, a book on the wild-psyche of woman & plants of coastal British columbia and a backpack that carries many mysteries of my day, my latest black, insulating jacket strewn across it. this is my home, where moments ago I was writing a new song inspired by the ska beats of G-love & the special sauce and then not a few minutes later I was buying the book, 'The Artist's Way', on Amazon.

It baffles me how life can flit so freely from moment to moment and be so full and coloured all at once. I am grateful and filled with melancholy at the passing beauty of life. I feel that I ought to be struck by the imminence of death, but yet in that same thought I am propelled to be awed by the brilliance of breath.

With this hyper-focus that is filling my lungs this evening, my heart expands and I reflect deeply on the love I have the honour of feeling for and from others in my life. I am safe and I am protected by the beautiful art of relating to authentic human beings who find me similarly safe and protective.

It is with this feeling, like witnessing dawn, that I feel the richness of my life strike mee. Not that I haven't given my opportunities due credit, but it is not often that we stop to savour the nectar of our own weaving circles of life. I am rich for all of this and I am made wealthier with each breath that I give thanks for, and each moment I choose to place my beating my heart into this world of blossoming endings and beginnings.

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To Roam, To Wander: The Voyage

A smile can go a long way.

Arriving in a land of opportunity is exciting, nerve wrecking, overwhelming; but it is also akin to fumbling with a hard-candy wrapper. After this significant ‘fumble’, you pop the dangerous object into your mouth with no telling what will come next. Will your teeth shatter and destroy said candy and make space for more? Will it take hour-long-minutes to dissolve dancing from cheek-to-tongue-to-cheek? Currently, I am fumbling with the wrapper, surprised at the unfamiliar foil on my fingertips, searching for a familiar journey. This is the journey of transition. To the sweetest core.

Seven days in I have accomplished a few wondrous things. I have a social insurance number (SIN), I’ve had two job interviews, I’ve found South Africans (or they found me), figured out 1/16th of the bus lines (yes I missed one interview last week because I got lost), signed up for a save-on-grocery-store card (much like a more upmarket Pick ‘n Pay here in Vancouver) , located various excellent coffee stores, found an excellent thrift store where I bought a much-needed raincoat and learnt where North is in relation to the enormous cityscape.

Concurrently I have also had a certain list of learning curves. I have gotten lost (multiple times), I have fallen ill (I blame it on the travel), got locked out of the house I am staying at, cried a bunch when talking to friends back home (in many a public space), had a fledgling romance booted unexpectedly, spent too much at Wholefoods Market, stared at the bicycle I’ve been offered to ride and have yet to muster up the courage to brave the alternate direction of traffic, found some bad coffee and expensive thrift stores and been a little cooped up inside because Vancouver Summer is basically Cape Town Winter; RAIN. Straight, single file droplets relentlessly falling.

In and amidst this administrative adjustment to a new country I have also been seeking friendship and community. There are a plethora of virtual ways in which to do this, but they certainly lack that hook and ‘sparkle’ that comes with meeting someone in the flesh for the first time. This has probably been the most disheartening yet necessary adjustment to a new city; the ultimate feeling of being alone. That is why, when a handsome stranger with a curly moustache smiles at you, it goes a long way.

This is foundation building time, and it is as trying as it is exciting. Week one is over. I look forward to the tribe emerging from the inner network of Canadia Land. Special shout out to all the homies keeping my heart full with your love across the oceans.

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Textured

Having this feeling spread across me is the sweet end of salted chocolate

I am hollowed out , the scooped out shape in the tub of iced delights

My texture is holding , the edges once crumbled now to form the grips for the brave

Am I the brave?

I am the crackling joy of hardened candy on your teeth

Pressure between my ears and water on the brim of my eyelids

A shoulder shaking bend of sound emerging from me

Silence is powerful.

Sound is magical.

I am the salted sweet iced caramel textured edge for the brave, powerful and magical.

~ Farrah Theresa, December 2017 

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Fierce Seed

I am filled with a lust to live

To flare out my hips and to shake seed from my fists

I am filled with a fire

Burning deeply with the primordial joy of creation

I am strong in my body

Seeing sharper, listening deeper

I am lucky to be the warrior

I am the echo of my brothers, sisters and ancestors

Image from Huffington Post

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Celtis Africana

Creation is creativity 

Perfectly arcing light over the canopies

Weaving sunrise between the leaves of the waterberries

We are breathing vessels

Through which transformation shifts the winds to unsettle our skin 

Gentle biting morning breeze settling settling 

Until

It

Settles

She lives in the trees

And in our purest station of delirium 

Where the lines between self and God are no more

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