A tourist in my own town
How often to we get so distracted by daily living, that we forget to actually live?
Only today I got this in an email from J.A. Rock: But how do you live right next to the Great Barrier Reef and never mention it?!
To which my answer has to be: Meh. It's some coral and some pretty fish. Seen one natural wonder of the world, you've seen them all.
Familiarity hasn't bred contempt, exactly, but it has bred a kind of shitty lazy attitude, and brings me, kind of, to something I was thinking the other day: Why have I never set a book where I live?
I live in tropical North Queensland, Australia. It has palm trees and oceans and reefs and rainforests and shit. People pay a lot of money to visit places like this. They buy postcards, and t-shirts, and, inexplicably, stuffed cane toads.
I think that it's about time I tried being a tourist in my own town, and saw it through fresh eyes. Because, guess what? It's kind of nice:
If you guys are wondering what brought this on, it's that J.A. Rock who is currently fighting the forces of Mordor in NZ, is heading to Australia in November. So yay!
I guess she doesn't just exist on the internet after all.
Also, I guess I should clean my house.
Only today I got this in an email from J.A. Rock: But how do you live right next to the Great Barrier Reef and never mention it?!
To which my answer has to be: Meh. It's some coral and some pretty fish. Seen one natural wonder of the world, you've seen them all.
Familiarity hasn't bred contempt, exactly, but it has bred a kind of shitty lazy attitude, and brings me, kind of, to something I was thinking the other day: Why have I never set a book where I live?
I live in tropical North Queensland, Australia. It has palm trees and oceans and reefs and rainforests and shit. People pay a lot of money to visit places like this. They buy postcards, and t-shirts, and, inexplicably, stuffed cane toads.
I think that it's about time I tried being a tourist in my own town, and saw it through fresh eyes. Because, guess what? It's kind of nice:
If you guys are wondering what brought this on, it's that J.A. Rock who is currently fighting the forces of Mordor in NZ, is heading to Australia in November. So yay!
I guess she doesn't just exist on the internet after all.
Also, I guess I should clean my house.
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I get that all the time too! WOW, you live in Seattle, how cool is that? Except I never go there, never go to the mountain only 30 minutes from me, and rarely go to the ocean. I've seen it many times in younger, more virile days. Now, I do go to the forests often, but then I have horses, and there is no better way to enjoy a day.However, I am jealous. You live in the one place I want to visit before I die. But I suppose everyone lives in someone's one place...
jules0623 wrote: "I live a few blocks from the beach and rarely ever go. I have friends that moan about my lack of appreciation for what is a really great beach but I tend to forget it's there. Then we were consid..."
It's crazy, right? I'm the same though. I can't remember the last time I went to the beach, but I'd never want to move inland!
Tara wrote: "I get that all the time too! WOW, you live in Seattle, how cool is that? Except I never go there, never go to the mountain only 30 minutes from me, and rarely go to the ocean. I've seen it many tim..."So true! :)
Yeah, Jesus, not to shabby looking, Lisa. Get ready to fall in love with it all over again when I get inordinately excited about all the pretty views, boats, hobos, etc.Some coral and some pretty fish?? People sometimes see TURTLES there. Some people see stingrays. Some people see...*is so excited can barely say it* sharks.
Don't clean your house. I'll be scared and confused and won't know what to do.
Tara wrote: "I get that all the time too! WOW, you live in Seattle, how cool is that? Except I never go there, never go to the mountain only 30 minutes from me, and rarely go to the ocean. I've seen it many tim..."Oh my god, Tara, I want to go to your mountain!
J.A. wrote: "Yeah, Jesus, not to shabby looking, Lisa. Get ready to fall in love with it all over again when I get inordinately excited about all the pretty views, boats, hobos, etc.Some coral and some pretty..."
Lol! I can take you to the aquarium -- there are sharks there, and turtles, I think. It's been so long since I went!
And then we'll go to Seattle and crash at Tara's place...
Then we were considering moving inland and I realised how much I'd hate living somewhere where I didn't see the water whenever I went downtown. Don't know what you've got until it's threatening to be gone, I guess.