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Nina Simone – feeling good

Soul Music / 1964 / Jazz / 2.57 min / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Sun & Bird Adelaide Australia / LoadingBookmark

Feeling Good also known as Feelin’ Good is a song from the 1964 musical “The Roar Of The Greasepaint—The Smell Of The Crowd”. Many artists have recorded this song with Nina Simone’s version being one of the most popular versions…

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Camino de Sydney | Route 5 | Hurstville via Kogarah Bay to Botany Bay

Body, Mind, Soul Blog / Sydney, Australia / 1 December 2015 / Author & Photographer - Janet Zenari / Photographs – Kogarah Bay, Botany Bay / LoadingBookmark

For this Camino I decided to take a journey through a more familiar territory and wanted to see if I could see it with fresh new eyes. As the quote from Marcel Proust goes “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”…

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Camino de Sydney | Route 4 | Martin Place to East Balmain

Body, Mind, Soul Blog / Sydney, Australia / 24 November 2015 / Author & Photographer - Janet Zenari / Photographs – CBD to Inner West , Sydney Australia / LoadingBookmark

It was a strange start to my camino, almost a test. I was on the train heading for Martin Place Station when I noticed a man to the right of me getting irritated by the minute and vocalising it. Behind me was a man who was on the phone speaking quite loudly…

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Camino de Sydney | Route 3 | Edgecliff to Watsons Bay

Body, Mind, Soul Blog / Sydney, Australia / 17 November 2015 / Author & Photographer - Janet Zenari / Photographs – Eastern Suburbs, Sydney Australia / LoadingBookmark

There glistening with the sun on the water was that magnificent view of the harbour and city like some magical dream. Hypnotically I walked through that street soaking every aspect of the area. It was only later on that I discovered where I had been. It was Wolseley Road Point Piper home to the most expensive properties in Australia…

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F. Scott Fitzgerald – a smile

Soul Quote / St. Paul, Minnesota, United States / 1896 – 1940 / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Bird with a feather, Sydney Australia / LoadingBookmark

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.”

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Camino de Sydney | Route 2 | Circular Quay to Greenwich

Body, Mind, Soul Blog / Sydney, Australia / 10 November 2015 / Author & Photographer - Janet Zenari / Photographs - North Shore, Sydney Australia / LoadingBookmark

Australia holds a multitude of natural treasures and yet this seems to be misused over recent times due to industrial and economic reasoning. Now more than ever we need to look after this precious ecosystem to ensure the natural resources are not exploited, damaged…

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Ang Lee – life of pi

Soul Movie / 2012 / Adventure, Drama / Set in India, Canada / 127 min / Photographer – Bianca Zenari / Photograph – Happy fish, Gili Trawangan Island, Indonesia / LoadingBookmark

Life of Pi is based on the novel by Yann Martel. It is the story recounted by Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel…

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Petula Clark – colour my world

Soul Music / 1966 / Pop / 2.51 min / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – View Tea Tree Bay, Noosa Heads Australia / LoadingBookmark

Colour My World was a song sung by Petula Clark written by Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent. Featured by BBC Television in the UK launch of the colour…

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Isaac Newton – ocean

Mind Quote / Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England / 1642 -1726 / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Garie Beach Australia / LoadingBookmark

“What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.”

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Thich Nhat Hanh – attention

Mind Quote / Thừa Thiên–Huế Province, Vietnam / 1926 - present / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Jacaranda Bloom, Sydney Australia / LoadingBookmark

“The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.”

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Robert Louis Stevenson – seeds

Soul Quote / Edinburgh, United Kingdom / 1850 - 1894 / Photographer – Girolamo Rino Zenari / Photograph – Garden in Hobbiton, Matamata, New Zealand / LoadingBookmark

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

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William Shakespeare – love

Soul Quote / Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England / 1564 - 1616 / Photographer – Janet Zenari / Photograph – Anniversary Flowers, Sydney Australia / LoadingBookmark

“Doubt thou the stars are fire. Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar. But never doubt I love.”

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