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A fine performance

There is no barrier between what she thinks and what she says. Shouty, judgemental, frightened - almost immobilised by depression and rage. She carries a weight that others cannot see. Partly because she hides it, partly because they don’t want to look. She has turned her home into a

You cannot lose me, I will leave you a sign

O vanishing days, death is in life, I know I know. Come here, Consoler, quiet my heart. Grant me, Silencer, respite from the pain. Cover all that’s too bright with your shadows. Let me rest in your silence –its cooling release. Give me relief from the light –and the

The line of words

The line of words is a fibre optic, flexible as wire. It illuminates the path just before its fragile tip. The line of words fingers your own heart. It invades arteries and enters the heart on a flood of breath. The line of words waits, still, hushed, pointed, with longing.

A kind of antidote to content culture

It’s not dated It’s not lost in another time It’s a treasure trove of songwriting and meaning and feeling and poetry It’s about people communicating about love and life and injustice and passion and frustration and philosophical ambiguities It’s about visionaries, revolutionaries, and eccentrics, yes,

Making my life new

Tutorials and talking about books in university bars and cafes. The co-op bookshop, my altar and place of pilgrimage. Afternoons and nights at the pub, smokey clubs and incense in share houses. Thinking… it was all never going to end. Those books have gone now, with the many moves and

The happiest day of my life?

Too hard! It’s like a necklace made up of jewels of moments. You string them up and hope there will be more to come. You don’t have to win the lottery, just treasure moments that are simple but precious. I carved this gem out of an interview with

My world is so small now

Always be a friend rather than have a friend. It takes just one friend to feel less isolated. “I feel like my big busy life has fallen in on itself.” Loneliness has always been a shapeless slippery part of the human psyche. Far from being a rare and curious circumstance,

Emerging Day

I gaze into the porthole. Sixteen hours, sixteen years, sixteen thousand kilometres away there’s an emerging day - a beautiful dawn. There’s a resonating rasp raised on cold winds. A half bitten lip brings comfort from contemplation. The euphoria is tangible, tactile. Good feelings emanate and translate. It’

Desires: there’s no chance of boredom

Wholly satisfying, forever untainted, ageless and reliable, desires are so desirable. They come in a great many varieties, artistic, sporting, intellectual, epicurean. Desires attach to ambition, to ideas, to music, to art, to literature, to others. Most desires are created by the mind and there they can stay - no

The Longboarder

Longboard surfers let the wave rub up against them and respond to its cues rather than imposing themselves upon it. Maybe I’m becoming an existential longboarder, allowing life to rub up against me and responding to its cues, not imposing myself upon it. If I could wish away the

The gift must always move

I am not concerned with gifts given in spite or fear, nor those gifts we accept out of servility or obligation. My concern is the gift we long for, the gift that, when it comes, speaks commandingly to the soul and irresistibly moves us. There are other forms of property

Childhood (has been) Transformed

The evidence and data are in. Here on Earth, before our eyes, in our homes - with disastrous consequences. An entire cohort, has been the collective subject for a global social experiment. They’ve hacked, our psychology and delved into our brain vulnerability. A new way of growing up, more

REFRAMING

SECONDS HEARTBEATS DAYS SUNRISES / SUNSETS MONTHS MOON PHASES QUARTERS SEASONS YEARS THE RETURN OF SPRING Dream intentionally - while you're awake.

Your list is your past and your future

A list is a collection with purpose. Lists bring order to the chaotic universe. Whenever I need to figure out my life - I make a list. I make lists to keep my anxiety levels down. I lose that vague nagging sense that there are an overwhelming number of things