TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Friday, August 12, 2005

5:47 PM
Posted by jodi rose

[actually thursday 11th 4pm]

when it gets too cold in my studio - by mid afternoon with this antarctic breeze happening - I retreat to cafe ella and sit upstairs in the sun - they just need to get wireless. or I need to buy a wireless modem. slowly making sense of life again, sorting and unpacking, writing, revising.

really did dream of bridges last night - listening to the cables on one I'd visited before but hadn't heard much. this time it was gorgeous, pinging and powing with lovely poly rhythms and I had a vast crew of people preparing for a rave or performance on it - hope that's prophetic.

am a little downcast by my sudden inflation of delirious plans - and the accompanying realisation that I have so far to go. but that's the fun with new ideas, they keep you moving. a body in motion stays in motion, according to some exercise advice I read in the sunday papers - such wisdom. walking every morning, wakes me up but then I tend to lose focus - need to refine the routine a little.
gave myself very clear specific goals today - go home, rearrange and sort out your studio, then write the animation call and two letters - then you can play with other words. still procrastinating about the letters - one of them since early february, and now it's almost too late. but may as well give it a try, you never know.
am completely out of contact today - no credit left on phone, prepaid internet just ran out - it's a perilous life the nomadic one. Although privileged, I know, I know.

But you do give up a lot as well. Lucky to have the choice,
Am saddened by the sudden lurch of new measures to restrict the free speech of anyone who justifies an act of terrorism - ridiculous extremes of fear and paranoia. Interesting to know how they would interpret the article in Saturdays Review, about the parallels between 'high art' lovers and terrorists - ie both believing the focus of their passion can unlock a spiritual or divine experience which they alone can access and that the masses are ignorant philistines.
a vastly simplified argument, and of course the author pointed out that for most 'high art' lovers, mass murder wasn't in fact an acceptable response to perceived lack of culture. It makes me really sad that the world has become so ruled by fear and ignorance as a political strategy... although, I guess it's not new at all, just differently presented and highlighted by todays buzz words. cold war, anyone?

But that's why it's even more important to me that I keep going out and connecting with people, listening to bridges, making art, staying engaged and positive and curious and open to life and people and the world. Not buying into the whole capitalist mythology of success and value, but creating your own measure of success and abundance - yeah some days it sucks being constantly broke (well apart from spending all my income on travel) and not having a stable relationship or home of my own - but the benefits far outweigh the occasional negatives. And it is a (privileged) choice, the shocking conditions that most of the world lives in always reminds me of that.