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Reading is like the mind of the gods, seeing beyond the page. Reading is about understanding that which cannot be understood - which the words merely hint at. I don’t read slowly and I have long ago left reading fast - to those who will continuously misunderstand everything around

I have read speedily like a bright young fool, crabbily like a teacher, querulously like a scholar, wistfully like a traveller, and punctiliously like a lawyer. I have read selectively like a politician, comparatively like a critic, contemptuously like a tyrant, glancingly like a journalist, competitively like an author, laboriously

I’m in Oldenburg’s ‘third place’ A space for creativity, and alternative belonging A slower pace My coffee is hot, long and black I connect with my thoughts and converse with my soul I read I listen Words lift and levitate, then land I scratch and scribble Sentences take

And now your brain is making choices on the basis of preferences and beliefs that have been hammered into it over a lifetime - by your genes, your development, your interactions. The moment we pay attention it is possible to see that free will - is - nowhere to be

Here’s a list of words: vehicle as life into wisdom the one ironically in ages accelerates seat the of rear Here’s a sentence constructed entirely from that list of words: ‘Ironically, wisdom accelerates as one ages into the rear seat of the vehicle of life.’ Rosalie Ham wrote

Most jobs and many leisure activities are not designed to make us happy and strong. Their purpose - to make money for someone else. If we allow them to - they can suck out the marrow of our lives. Leaving only feeble husks. A ‘found’ piece this week - with

A soul laid bare. If you ask the question you might not like the answer. Brutal honesty - rarely less than bruise-purple. This is an original. Dream intentionally - while you're awake.