Tag: Life

Same As It Ever Was

by Ebb Then Flood

‘Same As It Ever Was’

There are those lines in the refrain of the song “Once In A Lifetime” where Talking Heads’ David Byrne repeatedly utters “same as it ever was”.

It sounds like the needle got stuck in a groove and was my looping musical earworm today for whatever reason.

It certainly feels like “same, same” as Auckland returns to another Covid-19 lockdown.The rhythms of restriction return as if they had never left.

If lockdown is overly familiar, and not necessarily in a good way, I do get out for walks down by the local creek to clear my head.

It too is so familiar (but comforting too); hardly changing except for the level of tides that feed it from the sea or when heavy rain falls.

“Same as it ever was, same as it ever was…”

Lazing

by Ebb Then Flood

‘Lazing’

I shot this photo a month ago whilst on holiday at Mangawhai Heads,an hour and a half north of Auckland.

Sun, sand, surf, salt air.

Bliss.

The gentleman in the folding seat is lazing in the sun, tools of play – plastic buckets, a tiny inflatable boat -spread around on the sand.

A (hopefully!)temporary Covid-19 lockdown has non-essential travel out of town suspended, so I could not go to this beach, even if I wanted to, right now.

Which got me thinking -is lazing non-essential? It is probably the opposite in fact. We all need to unwind from time to time, right?