love after love
venus (after surgery). banksy installation at the bristol museum 2009 so, anyone who reads this blog (or any of the blogs of emma, jo, lisa, megg, penny, sas and susannah) will already know that last...
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i believe it’s no accident that things are happening to me right now that bring me to an awareness of a 30-something year long conversation i have been having with myself. things in my professional...
View Articlethe possibility of going bat-shit crazy
188/365, by Noukka Signe on flickr it’s taken me a really long time to learn how to be alone. i don’t mean the kind of alone that happens only when everyone else i live with leaves the house and i...
View Articleguardian of the sacred crayons
apparently i have a ‘smudging face’. a look and poise not used at any other time in my life than when i smudge the house, or temple, or retreat. i have no idea where this face comes from. or why there...
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Sometimes this happens to me… Sometimes it really feels like I haven’t made a right turn in ages. Everything feels wrong. I feel lost, confused, frustrated… angry, stressed and shouty, or I retreat. I...
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David duChemin is a really awesome dude. Not very long ago (I’m a slow learner) I realised that, if I want my photography to improve, I need to hang out with people whose work I admire. I was stuck....
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My grandmother told me, “Never hide your green hair - They can see it anyway.” - Angeles Arrien There are stories I have told myself for years: That I am not good enough – That I am not worth...
View Articlethe hermit • heart islands • the fool
☙ the hermit We need to find forums in which we can delve deeper than the often facile exchanges over Twitter, or the sprawling comment threads on a blog , which rarely reach the levels of criticality...
View Articlein the end there’s only love
The UK is experiencing some deliciously hot weather at the moment and we are trying to make the most of it. So, Nic and I took the day off work and went to the beach yesterday. Three people we know...
View Articleon letting go (a confession)
over the years i’ve participated in, and witnessed, a lot of different releasing rituals. i’ve written (and then burned) words & pages, wrapped my intentions in red cloth, held private ceremonies...
View Articlestatus anxiety
self-portrait, yesterday swirling thoughts, little remnants from slumber, waking early, with a head full of to-do’s and what-if’s – all of these things feeding into my current status anxiety. sas...
View Articleexquisite. ordinary
two weeks ago | i was sitting eating a japanese-style breakfast from the buffet of my hotel room, looking out over tokyo; i was sitting on the tokyo metro, whizzing my way towards a park where i...
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one link for you today… my friend Meghan wrote the most amazing story. then she published it. it’s a powerful and compelling work of fiction that touched me deeply. i could identify so much with the...
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