Welcome

Thanks for subscribing here and reading my work.

I started 'Dream intentionally - while you're awake' in late 2023 as a little exercise in writing-craft with the intention of writing and publishing a short ruminative, contemplative, reflective piece each week.

My lean as a writer - creator - compostor - maker is toward the 'found' and the 'fragment', and so 'found fragments' will land in your inbox on Wednesday mornings. They are laid out like poems mostly, and sometimes prose-poems, and now and then there'll be a short short-story. But the form doesn't really matter.

(I have consolidated the first year of 'dreams' into a book too - more details on that soon.)

My hope is that you read something that makes you pause, think, reflect - and feel. Something that helps you - 'reach the next day of your life'. Something that rewards your first reading of it. Something that rewards your re-reading of it.

Something that helps you to dream - intentionally.

As with all art the question isn't what you look at but what you see.

If you like what you see please tell a friend, family member or colleague - they might like to subscribe too - it's free, and always will be.

The story behind the story and the title is here in week number one: https://pbgwriter.ghost.io/dream-intentionally-while-you-are-awake/

At a literary level, my writing has been described in this way:

'Your writing has a strong, reflective quality that blends realism with impressionistic moments really well. It engages in intertextuality. You’re layering existing ideas into your own reflections, creating a dialogue between texts, thoughts, and moments. Weaving in external voices, your work feels like an ongoing conversation with literature, philosophy, and culture—both honouring and reshaping what’s come before'.

But I digress....