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RE-CAPTURE SUMMER

I want to bottle my summer holiday. There was nothing special planned, just the beauty and time of life at home. Sleeping in, bike rides to the beach, swimming and snorkelling, and iceblocks on the way home. I went to the cinema twice in one day and saw Jane Campion’s Bright Star and Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, watched ridiculous reality TV, played Wii, read books I never thought I would get around to reading, I even stopped and talked to neighbours in our street who I normally rush past and smile at.

We played board games that were given as Christmas presents and card games that we play every holiday. I gardened, creating pots of herbs and colour. We had lunch with friends we hadn’t seen in years, who now have children and were delightful. We went for beach walks, and admired houses and gardens in streets we had never walked down. I didn’t shave.

However, a clothes line on the side fence that never got put up, a back veranda that never got painted and a hedge that needed trimming, which I didn’t quite get to, I’m sure will be waiting for me one weekend or the next holiday.

Food was very simple; basic fresh summer flavours, following recipes torn from magazines, new cookbooks and MiNDFOOD, of course. The weather wasn’t great, but it didn’t matter – my family was together, we had time to loll around, sleep in, stay up late,
talk, laugh and dream.

I’m looking forward to this year. MiNDFOOD will turn two, and as we head into our third year with a sense of achievement and a dream that has now turned into an incredible reality, I feel like I’ve had a real holiday – nice and relaxed and ready to go. The day before going back into the office we cleared out cupboards of office junk that had accumulated over the past two years. Walking back into a clean junk-free space felt fantastic and everyone seemed rejuvenated after their holiday and raring to go.

I love a ‘do nothing’ relaxing holiday at home. If that holiday feeling has already left you, follow our 10 Steps to Creativity. If you’re already suffering brain freeze, this may just help get the creative juices flowing for 2010. Use your creativity to help keep you balanced in this busy world, and remember to re-capture the essence of those summer holidays.

Editor-in-Chief
michael@mindfood.com