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Manifesting…

Ever wonder how dreams come true? Well they start with manifesting them…

Going to bed with this channel on tonight!

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Finding your Inspiration

The pressure of deadlines can get to me when I am working from home alongside watching two kids, managing Kuni’s photography and up-keeping the household. Finding inspiration to get through sudden pangs of writer’s block is something I rely upon greatly during tough and tiring times. 

To re-inspire my creative mind I like to work amongst nature, be it at the beach, in the country or Jane’s amazing garden view balcony. I also try to at least have one walk a day to the beach and if time and conditions allow I will always try for an hour surf, there is nothing better than a surf to clean the cob webs and restart the brain! Our local break is always filled with dolphins and often I am trying to doge them when duckdiving through the glassy waters. Just yesterday I was out there again with a pod of 30 frolicking amongst the surfers.

I do love family time, especially at the beach! Kuni and I like to experiment on all kinds of surf equipment. This morning we took the belly board down for a ride.

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A clean, healthy diet is just as important, Ginger and Mint tea fresh from the garden is a sure way to relax stress and rekindle creativeness. 

Small or big, a surf a day keeps writer’s block away!

Nature can be a HUGE source of inspiration…here are a few shots from my outdoor offices around the place…

In preparation for a new stage in our lives, the kids are off to kindy a few days a week and this coming week will be the first time in a very long time Kuni and I have had exclusive time to ourselves and each other. With a long list of things to do including finalizing stories, sending off photos, attending meetings and liaising with Kuni’s clients, we have promised to have at least one long surf session with each other, just like old times. Just checked the weather and the forecast is for a week of rain. 

Well, you can’t dictate everything. And there’s plenty of inspiration to be found in the rain. 

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Autumn Daze

I will say it again, Autumn has become my favorite season. The crisp mornings and offshore breezes, glassy waves enjoyed by a small tribe of local dolphins, sunny days and new opportunities. 

Kuni spent the past week shooting on a couple of Video Clips including the new Wolfmother clip Directed by Taylor Steele, styled by Sybil Steele and Produced by Tahl Rinsky. Group shot below!

And Australian Surfing World published Kuni’s awesome tube shot of Dave at Lennox Point in their MP tribute issue…

The great finish to this fine sunshine (well we had more rays today just with a chilly wind) was a great relaxing mother’s day at Le Casa with Sybil, Taylor and friends. Was great to meet Kelly Slater in person finally, and check out some of his recent Go Pro footage!

Kelly and I have been communicating for a couple months now about raising money for the Surfing Community in Japan to clean up the radioactive waters, and it was nice to finally share ideas and concerns and get really stoked about making a positive change. Thanks Kelly for your concerns, together I think we can encourage surfers to all change their thoughts and actions toward promoting a nuclear free future. 

Happy Mother’s Day to all awesome mums past and present. xoxo

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Making Dreams Reality

Attune to your dreams and work them into your realities. Dreamers can be realists, realists dreamers. The universe is there to work with you, not against, so work together to produce powerful affirmations and visualize your life as you want it. The more you live out your dreams in your everyday reality the closer you are to fulfilling them. 

Everyday is a powerful gift but none more so than this present moment. Live it, breathe it, feel it. 

On that note, tonight I shut down the office with images of a natural wonderland right at my doorstop…closing my eyes the sound of the local surf breaking nearby is reality enough to transform me via my dreams to the natural paradise that is Southern Ocean Lodge in Kangaroo Island, a mere 30min flight south from my hometown. 

Make your own dreams come true, check out the new “Let yourself go” campaign and spoil yourselves rotten in paradise, even if it’s just for a night tucked up in your own bed. 

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Unless we care…

Now that Ryder is old enough to sit through a full length movie, the local cinema is an attractive day out on rainy days. And with school holidays officially over, I had a hunch it would be an ideal day to head out for a movie date with my little boyfriend. 

Choosing which movie to see around here is not much of a problem, there were only two options and The Lorax presented itself at a time most suitable for my little guy. Ryder was so excited to go out with Mumma to the flicks, and what a good one it turned out to be. 

For those of you who have forgotten, or perhaps don’t know, The Lorax is a brilliant story by famed children’s author Dr Seuss. First published in 1971, it tells the story of the greedy Once-ler who disrupts nature and the Lorax who speaks for the trees…

The plot is as follows:

“A young boy residing in a polluted, grim world visits a strange creature called the Once-ler who lives in such seclusion that he never appears in full and only his limbs are shown. He asks the Once-ler why the world is in such a run-down state. The Once-ler explains to the boy that he arrived in a beautiful, cheerful world containing happy, playful fauna that spent their days romping around blissfully among “Truffula trees.” The Once-ler begins to cut down the truffula trees, thinking they will help him craft “Thneeds,” his invention that he thinks everyone will need.

The Lorax, a small orange creature, appears from the stump of a truffula tree. He “speaks for the trees” and warns the Once-ler of the consequences of cutting down the truffula trees, but the Once-ler ignores him. Soon the once beautiful land becomes polluted and the fauna flee to find more hospitable habitats. Eventually the final Truffula tree is cut down, and without Truffulas the Once-ler cannot make any more Thneeds. This leads to the closure of Once-ler’s factory and the disappearance of the Lorax. The Once-ler lingers on in his crumbling residence, living in seclusion and remorse, while pondering over a message the Lorax left behind: a stone slab etched with the word “Unless”. The Once-ler now realizes that the Lorax means that “unless” someone cares, the situation will not improve. The book then returns to the present, ending on an ambiguous yet optimistic note where the Once-ler gives the boy the last Truffula seed and encourages him to plant it so that Truffula trees can return as well as the fauna, and so would the Lorax”.

The message so beautiful, and powerful, I shed a small tear towards the end, able to recognise just what Dr Seuss saw in mankind back in 1971. In the movie, the young boy Ted and his family and fellow citizens live in a world made of plastic where there they need to buy bottled clean air. Maybe a thought too far from our minds in 2012, but it is worth remembering that once in our past we were able to drink clean water for free…now we buy it bottled. 

The final quote from Dr Seuss was a powerful reminder for all of us:

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not”.

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Words, Art, Photos and Surf…

Now roll all those favorite things into one new magazine, and you get PAPERSEA, a brilliant revelation. And after having my head in the ocean too much lately I totally missed the promotional banter leading up to the launch, stumbling upon the beautifully presented thick swab of a mag in the shelves at the local newsagent. Love finding gems that way.

And when you open the first page and ‘boom’, the inside cover double page spread is a shot of Miss Belinda Baggs logging behind the lens of my very own husband Kuni Takanami’s sharp camerafied eye…well I had to buy it didn’t I! 

Thank goodness PaperSea is only a quarterly…with her swollen size I just might have finished Vol 1 in time for the next issue. 

Check it out. 

http://papersea.com.au/

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Loving my Love

Thanks to good friend AJ for snapping this moment of Love on a location photo shoot last week. Life’s pretty good snapped up like this. Keep it that way I reckon. 

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Loving Yoga

I got the time to head out to a local Yoga class this morning for the first time since Hunter’s birth. Leading up to my fabulous water birth I spent several months doing pre-natal Yoga classes, and have really missed my once a week fix. 

Thanks to Kuni I was able to sneak out for an hour and a half to remind me of who much caring for the self is just as important as caring for those around us. 

I am in love with Yoga again and loving these images. Would love to get the boys into it!