#thelifeofabusker

[mimigilbert]

Queenstown, New Zealand busking in winter. The beauty and the music of the landscape. The silence is music enough in Queenstown. I didn't play for long <3

"Were I not still but for a moment  I would have missed the echo of my soul.  A sound of pure, sweet content.  I listened, and in silence there,  Resounding through the distant gorges of my mind   The music fell upon my ear.  In silence, I found beauty everywhere."

-Barbara Cadogan

Photo taken by Aimee  - a friendly Australian woman I met in Queenstown. She and her partner Mike are from Brisbane. I'm going to Brissy in a little over a week and they offered me to stay on their couch before I head down to see my great friend in Byron Bay. So, of course, I will! <3 Thanking Aimee!

[mimigilbert]

Dear Kitten, (reference to Anne Frank annnd the Friskies cat commercial)

I sit now in the Christchurch Airport.

I love airports.

So much so, that I decided that rather than pay for a hostel, I would sleep here tonight. I do have a second reason for that. My flight leaves tomorrow at 7AM. Back to Wellington! 

Spliv Neal made that drawing of the busking alligator-fox and I couldn't stop smiling when she inbox'd it to me.

'Busking brings a smile to the world,' is what she told me.

Today's busking was quite eventful. I will just say one thing. I will never hear the flute in the same way. It might take years for me to enjoy that sound again... War of the buskers. Me versus an old man playing the flute wearing really tight pants and a cowboy hat. I aim to make peace with all the buskers. Sometimes it works. Sometimes I am verbally abused, and then... musically abused. Which is worse. Flute. 

I am making CD's in the airport and listening to Neutral Milk Hotel. (I got to see them in Sydney at the Enmore Theatre and it was just fantastic. Two friends of mine snuck in by writing "ENTERED"on their arm in stamp-like-font with red sharpie. I pretended that I wasn't jealous or impressed because I paid for my ticket, thank you. Haha.)

That's it for now :) I love you guys. I hope you're feeling loved today.

Mimi x