Shanti has ideas while making bread and going for runs and watching YouTube videos and interviewing people for her real job and biking in the rain and having long phone conversations and feeling envious. She has ideas about Leo Tolstoy and Wellington trail runs and mattar paneer and playing folk music on viola and what it takes to write a good text message and how amazing her friends are. She usually has a lot of ideas at the same time! She likes to talk about her ideas and she likes to learn about other peoples ideas. As this blog’s title indicates, most of her ideas are good ones and she is correct about a lot of things. She lives in Ōtautahi where she reads books and talks to her family and stays up late and throws herself up the Port Hills and grows herbs in the garden and peruses magazines and gets over herself.