Optical illusion

Perspective is a funny thing. For what feels like weeks, I have been limited to working from my sofa. Today I have "repossessed" my work desk. There's scarcely a meter and a half between both pieces of furniture (what did you expect? This is a small flat ;-) and yet it feels like I am viewing a totally different living space. It helps that the instead of facing my TV I now look up and see my beautiful plants (or "urban jungle" as part of my family has knicknamed my ever expanding interior garden), and, behind them, the recently cleaned up flat buildings across from me. That might sound claustrophobic, but given that there is a school playground in between its actually quite airy.

Anyway, all this to tell you, my friends, that I am very glad to be surging along on the path to full recovery, and with it to actually beginning to post all those thoughts I have jotted down (I am still very much a pen and paper girl) but haven't had the energy or the time to comment with you yet. But before I go off on another tangent, let me just say; Check out Vogue USA's "Salad Days" cover story!! where Sally Singer talks of "her quest for a greener life" with great sense of humour. In it she explains her struggles as an "uberfashionista" trying to turn "uberecological" - which means, basically, that there now officially exists an international movement of fashionistas (Sally Singer and friends) and would be fashionistas (me!) trying to reconciliate the one with the other. It is nice to see that we all stumble along but continue to battle both with our inner weaknesses and commitment averse politicians and industrial tycoons who are forever postponing the green reforms they have promised and signed treaties about. Vital reforms that this planet and ALL its inhabitants, not just humans, need to survive.