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  • Now you see me….

    Now you see me….

    Hey, I’m still here guys, just keeping my head low and focusing on my June goals. For once in my life I’m sticking to my goals and might, might just achieve some of them. Yes, unbelievable but true. The parkinsons seemed to rob me of energy, motivation, call it what you will. Just general ‘oomph’…

  • 4 into 14 does go you know

    4 into 14 does go you know

    It’s almost the end of April and I have been looking backwards while planning for the next chapter in my descent into Parkinsons. Does that sound depressing? Actually, it’s all quite liberating. My contemporaries are wrestling with work dilemmas and aged parental health problems while I am trying to decide what kind of artwork I…

  • Nocturne

    Nocturne

    I stay up late at night: I somehow need to feel the dark. To have a space to bubble into, Rise and grow and stretch myself. But I am also lonely. Late at night is a solo shift. I should be being social, chatty. But I shrink away from that. A conundrum lies before me,…

  • 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.