Camille Soleil

Giving Thanks

Giving Thanks.

Camille SoleilNovember 26, 2020

Thirty-six

So grateful to be still standing in the swirl of this Mystery…

Camille SoleilOctober 28, 2020

ReUnion

Forty years later, we make the pilgrimage back through nascent cornfields to the shores of Maxinkuckee, where we walk and talk and drink and laugh and remember and remind and are reminded and try to remember some more.

Trees, travel, new zealand, florida, vanlife, writing, family, health, artCamille SoleilMay 21, 2018home, culver

12 minutes

Sometimes, just making a slight course correction is all I need.

Camille SoleilJuly 7, 2017

Rising Tides

Astonished by this push-pull dance of moon and sea, I find solace in the sound of masts ringing like a bell choir, and I cannot stop thinking about the tiny crab that scuttled out from the nest of my bow lines and fell overboard this morning.

Camille SoleilJune 7, 2017

Circadian rhythms

Right now it's 11pm and I have no idea if the moon is crescent, full or void, if the tide's high or low, or if nuclear winter is right around the corner. Mmmmhm.

Camille SoleilApril 8, 2017

Meandering

Two nights in a place and my feet get itchy. Already thinking about Xena II. And I love being back home, which is all these places and so much more.

Camille SoleilApril 7, 2017

Re-entry

Still, I remind myself, this is my home, and more than 60% know better. So many worlds colliding.

Camille SoleilApril 4, 2017

Spring is sprung

Now there is here. The connections are synchronous and constant.

Camille SoleilMarch 27, 2017

A Tale of Two Fridays

The second Friday felt like a slow-motion hangover: a day in pressurized metal cylinders hurtling through space and time, a dream of endless hallways, portals and strangers asking to see my passport and waving me through lines.

Camille SoleilMarch 25, 2017

What if

What if it all is just a big dream?

Camille SoleilMarch 23, 2017

Adios, En Zed

Seemed only fitting to take my last En Zed selfie alongside Great Kiwi Road Trips in front of a library.

Camille SoleilMarch 23, 2017

Niceties

Some of the niceties to which I've grown accustomed here in New Zealand:

Camille SoleilMarch 21, 2017

Coromandel

Close to a third of my trip has been spent right here on the Coromandel peninsula.

Camille SoleilMarch 19, 2017

Goodbye Hello

Lesson relearned: always have Plan B.

Alternate lesson: most humans are good and kind.

Camille SoleilMarch 16, 2017

Signs of Autumn

Yep, folks are pulling out their hats and wellies here as the Surprise Lilies, those harbingers of fall and cold days to come, pop their heads out of green grass saying "don't hurry, don't rest."

Camille SoleilMarch 15, 2017

Opening farewell

My last Raglan sunset. For now.

Camille SoleilMarch 14, 2017

Loo-hoo!

After my happy little photo shoot in the corrugated town of Tirau (like pie, these things are so much better when shared) I asked Xena where we should spend our last nights together, and here we are, back in Raglan.

Camille SoleilMarch 13, 2017