A Heart of Bronze, A Heart of Stone - Tim Winton / Intelligent Life Magazine (May/June 2015)

Bella [1] - Fremantle (Sun 19 Apr 2015)

Tim Winton on Humane and Heart:

there was a quality to it I later recognised as humane. I didn’t just take shelter from it; I took heart.

via SPURNED NO LONGER by Tim Winton.

And so she was and so I did.

[1] Bella - Inscription "The freedom to be who you are and to enjoy what is!" - Sculpture by Greg James.

Getting Started - 4 Years On Today ..

The Eiffel Tower - The first time I saw the Eiffel Tower - Paris (Wed 24 Aug 2005)

Jenny and Geoff - Paris (Thu 25 Aug 2005)
It all started with this little challenge (*) by Seth Godin (*) on the Tue 24 Feb 2009 to celebrate his 3,000th blog post:

if you'd like to celebrate this milestone (there won't be another like it for three years or so) please go ahead and start a blog. If you already have a blog, please go ahead and post something really interesting today.

A few days later I would take up the challenge and I posted my 1st blog post here at eljeiffel (*) titled Getting Started (*). Since I had been blogging (the term had not been developed back then) for the period between 1997 and 2003, I looked to my experiences back then and I started again with a small quote (*) from Gustave Eiffel about essentially function and form.

I won't go on as I think I touched on what I have learnt about myself and life, over the last 4 or so years, in my 1,000th blog post (*) back in Aug 2012. All I will say is that it has been challenging, rewarding and interesting for me, at least, and I am glad I took up Seth's challenge back on Thu 26 Feb 2009. The act of creating, editing and the resulting archive (*), seems to give me some comfort and a way to reflect on who I was, who I am and (maybe an inkling to) who I hope to be.

Geoff - A Small Statue / Sculpture of Gustave Eiffel - He designed the structural skeleton for the Statue of Liberty - Liberty Island / New York (Mon 15 Aug 2011)

Sculpture - Sculptures by the Sea / Tamarama (Sat 03 Nov 2001)

Sculpture - Sculptures by the Sea / Tamarama (Sat 03 Nov 2001)

Shadows - Sculpture - Rue Sainte-Catherine Est / Montreal (Tue 23 Aug 2011)

Shadows - Sculpture - Rue Sainte-Catherine Est / Montreal (Tue 23 Aug 2011)
Our first night in Montreal after traveling all day by bus from Boston.

Rue Sainte-Catherine Est had been blocked off to traffic for the summer and most restaurants had temporary floor space with tables and seats built out onto the road. There seemed to be some kind of summer festival happening.

Plenty of interesting street art here and the inner city was old and a little bit grungy - in way that made me feel comfortable, just like I feel around the Inner City of Sydney.

We would stay here for another 2 full days before heading to Quebec on the Friday.

Bullseye - Sculptures by the Sea 2005 / Tamarama Beach (Sun 31 Oct 2004)

Bullseye - Sculptures by the Sea 2005 / Tamarama Beach (Sun 31 Oct 2004)