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Editor ♦ Writer ♦ Blogger ♦ Artist ♦ May today be nothing but kind to you and yours.
Jun 12, 2021Jul 30, 2021Michael Carty

Each day in this life

Each day in this life is a link in a chain. We have to accept that there will be days when all that matters is to have made it through, to have completed another link so that the chain remains unbroken.

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Jun 5, 2021Jul 30, 2021Michael Carty

Modern life is disrupted?

Looking back to the Londons of Alexei Sayle in the 80s and Blur in the 90s shows us how the life we knew is being disrupted in the modern world.

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May 29, 2021Jul 30, 2021Michael Carty

When time stood still

When time stood still, what did you do? When time stood still, how did you feel? When time stood still, why did it feel unbearable?

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May 22, 2021Aug 30, 2021Michael Carty

This side of the dirt

If you’re reading these words, you have the luxury of being alive. If you’re this side of the dirt, everything is pretty good. You have what it takes to get through this.

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May 15, 2021Aug 30, 2021Michael Carty

I don’t want to think this much

Against the odds, beautiful trees and flowers can flourish in the desert. Life finds a way, even in the harshest circumstances. So can you.

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May 8, 2021May 6, 2021Michael Carty

Protection

To be able to do all we can to help those we love through this world is perhaps life’s greatest gift.

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Apr 24, 2021Jul 30, 2021Michael Carty

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.  

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Apr 17, 2021Apr 16, 2021Michael Carty

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.

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Apr 10, 2021Aug 30, 2021Michael Carty

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 […]

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Apr 3, 2021May 5, 2021Michael Carty

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?

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