Listening to Peter Gabriel in the bath – I’m in the bath not Gabriel – a line from That Voice Again (album So) sets me pondering – the line is, I’m hearing right and wrong so clearly There must be more than this It’s only in uncertainty That we’re naked and alive I think the [...]

Time so often is no real distance as experienced when in the company of those we have not seen for what is thought to be a long time. Time can only ever be measured by the experiences we have in the midst of it and suddenly we are together again and it may as well [...]

Anne Sexton was a painfully honest poet on a trajectory of self destruction. She was one of those creative people who was simply unable to contain her creativity. I first discovered her after hearing a song by Peter Gabriel called Mercy Street on his album So – a haunting track inspired by a haunted woman. [...]

Change transform turn around renew metanoia

I love the arrival of a parcel in the post. Even more so when the parcel is a book. The book arriving in the post today is The Cry For Myth by Rollo May (1909 – 1994). One of my favourite books of his is The Courage To Create – he is an existentialist psychologist [...]

Lazy day load lifted away each step a little lighter each sky a little brighter whistle a happy tune grinning like a loon hey ho silver lining her eyes always shining

Reading a poem by Naomi Shihab Nye called So Much Happiness from a book by Roger Housden called Ten Poems To Set You Free (highly recommended) it reminds me of a quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as [...]

There are certain sounds that evoke certain feelings that result in specific actions that are scarily predetermined – a bell rings and the dog salivates expecting food – a child laughs and I’m smiling from ear to ear and crawling around the floor thirty years younger . . .

And you may find yourself in another part of the world And you may ask yourself – Well, how did I get here? David Byrne – Talking Heads – Once In A Life Time

one door closes another door opens knock knock who’s there? opportunity opportunity who? opportunity knocks