bimbaya

what a magical word. bimbaya - the property where lucie has made her home. she told me, 'if you get to candawangalo creek, you've gone too far'. we looked out for the red rooftops of the old butter factory down by the creek, and lucie's tiny shack out the back. Hans, whose property it is, has converted the butter factory into the most amazing place. and lucie's wonderful shack is like a retreat centre. calm, quiet, simple, perfect. more so because lucie is in it. she moved out of her room to let us cuddle under her mosquito net, and she camped in her studio, where her next album is all but finished. she played me some, and it filled the fields. red the horse looked up -