Against the odds, beautiful trees and flowers can flourish in the desert. Life finds a way, even in the harshest circumstances. So can you.
Author: Michael Carty
Writer. Artist. Tweeter.
Protection
To be able to do all we can to help those we love through this world is perhaps life’s greatest gift.
There will always be joy
There will always be setbacks. There will always be reasons for tears. There will always be joy.
The El-P ethos
El-P (of Run the Jewels and Company Flow fame) makes the impossible feat of sustaining creativity through constant reinvention seem easy. His podcast series with Open Mike Eagle goes deep on his work and the fiercely independent ethos that guides it.
When I look back upon my life
Kevin Hart wisdom: When the final word of the final sentence of the book of your life is written, what will your story be? A post inspired by some wise words from Kevin Hart’s incredible podcast with Joe Rogan.
The world doesn’t know you’re there
The world’s attention is not on you. And that is no bad thing. You have the space, the time and the freedom to focus on being and doing better. If you went by just his Twitter feed, you could be forgiven for thinking that Ed Latimore is a gent of few words. But those few […]
Madchester LARP on?
“Think about the future”, suggested Happy Mondays’ Shaun Ryder in the heady Madchester days of 1988*. But did he imagine a future where kids would be invited to dress up as him 30+ years later?
You never lose the choice to choose
In every moment, each of us has the choice to choose. We might not know we have it. But it never goes away.
The natural state of a song
What is the natural state of a song? What is the natural state of any idea when it is first born into this world?
What you are about to become
What lies around the corner for you? You can only know what you are going through now, and what you have struggled through before. You can never know what you are about to become.
