October 2011
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i want to be a gardener
i have been thinking a lot lately [ it’s a BIG part of being INFJ and unemployed ]
soooo…. i came back here to Wellington [ realised it’s somewhere i’d really like to be, maybe for quite some time ] side note: i’m twenty-eight these days [ did you know that? ] anyway… i have never subscribed to this ‘work to play’ attitude i.e. that we do a job we...
C'mon ALL BLACKS!!!!!
[ today, i am proud to be a kiwi! ]
simple pleasures
dipping my toes in the ocean silence climbing up a hill and looking at the view holding hands spicy cinnamon tea at christmas time, maybe with lebkuchen german christmas markets on cold winter days coffee with friends and family driving/walking around a town early on a sunday morning midnight of a midwinters night in a frosty ghost town dashboard lights on a late-night drive home scarves, hats,...
i leave the mountain today :(
so i wrote a poem for some friends and their traveling journal… they are a couple from Wales… it goes like this:
travelers love their wide-eyed friends
of hope and wonder or strange medicines
before the treeline ends upon a mountain side
two sweet welsh folk stumbled soft in time
a pair that right, it was clear to see
when clouds above swirled constantly
when snow droves...
curledtoes asked: Ali, you're such a wonderful person and artist. I've been listening to your songs for about a year. The way you string together words is amazing (I love 'smoke it pirouttes' and your song 'Ali Whitton's Dream') . Your voice sounds so raw and true, in many ways you remind me of Conor Oberst. I hope you're doing well and life is good to you. I'm off to...
the pitfalls of compulsive self-expression
[ my brother bought my new EP
and this MADE MY YEAR ]
y’see…
i write these songs
sing them
jot them down on record
i don’t do it for money
[ OBVIOUSLY ]
or fame
[ both of which will forever elude me ]
i write for myself
because i need to
compulsion to express myself
to the people around me
and so here is the dilemma
it sorta hurts that most people i’ve...
