One of our favourite sayings we heard from our grandfather, Gramp, was, "Where did you find that? Floating down the river on a log?" (I use it often now with the WeeOne.) And seeing this wonderful sleep concept from Okooko (which means "to cradle in arms" in Maori) just brought this old saying to mind. Heaven knows why...Okooko is a New Zealand company with a new store just opened in Philly, of all places. "Float," as above, was launched at NZ's Furniture Fashion in May last year, and voted by the public as 'Best piece of bedroom furniture' in the NZ made competition.
Designer David Trubridge has worked from boatbuilding to furniture making, and sailed through the Caribbean and the Pacific with his family in Hornpipe. He sees “Sleep is a voyage through dreams when we wholly give ourselves up in trust, lying curled up in our bed vessel feeling safe and cosy. It can be ten minutes in the office, an hour on the lawn or all night in any place we pull our cradle to.”
Personally, if we could all kayak in something like Float, imagine what a happy world this would be!
Of course, I also love the photo as it's taken from the beach in front of the marina in Tauranga, my home town. That's the famous "Mount" across the harbour - Mount Maunganui - many a time have we sailed out that entrance on a new voyage, or walked up the Mount's summit and marvelled at the view across the Bay of Plenty. Sigh.
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Interesting how images stir old memories of old places, isn't it?
My grandpa was the master of the 'saying' also, most of which are unprintable in a public blog. One that is was his description of something that was totally useless. "About as handy as tits on a boar hog".
This is beautiful!!!
Do you have any advice for getting into the world of sea kayaking. I just recently graduated with my BS. in biology and am for the first time about to make money as an 8-5 o'clock citizen, and I was wondering if there are cheaper ways to do that sort of thing.
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