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  • Rerun

    Rerun

    I have been looking back on some of my old posts. From September 2013,12 and 11. And what strikes me, is how I have been struggling with time management and the balance between responsibility and recreation for ever so long now. As I sit here in my kitchen table, looking at the bowls of cereal…

  • Culture vulture

    Culture vulture

    Now, I don’t pretend to be all over lives literary, musical or artistic but tonight I revived a sliver of myself by going to the opera. God, it was marvellous – like a bath of milk and honey. Not a world renounced venue but who cares…it was marvellous.. I felt light. Worth a song.

  • Hanging on the telephone

    Hanging on the telephone

    i am writing this poem as I hang on a line trying to claim illness benefit because i am not fit to work and won’t be fine ever again. And yet…. as i sit and speak into my phone and tell the nice lady my every moan i reflect on where i am now and…

  • The road less travelled

    So, part two of my story…I’ve gone and got me a studio and I’ve started reviving my drawing and artistic tendencies after a career of science and financial services. At 18 I chose science, now I’ve gone back and taken the other fork. The picture above is my first studio sketch. It was so lovely…

  • Day 2: napowrimo : ‘c’

    Day 2: napowrimo : ‘c’

    Here’s one about how life can throw different curveballs and so you need different strategies to tach the blighters. Life is full of challenges right now so this one is heartfelt. In a good way. There are different types of light : Different colours, Steps of energy. But they all travel fast, uniform, all the…