Youth feels infinite at the time. When you’re very young, the moment is everything. How endless the six-week summer holidays from school seemed, how boundless the possibilities. At that age, the simplest, tiniest thing can fill your heart with joy, or break your tiny heart. A pink balloon moment On Wednesday this week (14 February […]
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#SaturdaySix (February 2018 edition): Giant days, winter’s wonders
Welcome to my second #SaturdaySix – a monthly round-up of six things that are inspiring me right now. What on Earth is floating your own boat? I’d love to know – please drop me a line with your own current raves! 1: Ice is something you put in your gin It is deepest winter in […]
My Mark E Smith
The world is a sadder, poorer place to have lost Mark E Smith, The Fall’s eternal Hip Priest. Here is what Mark E Smith meant to me. I am also pleased to share some words from my friends @brokenbottleboy, Helen Reynolds and Julie Joyce on what he meant to them. “We watched The Fall, too. Weren’t […]
When you look to the sky, what do you see?
When you look to the sky, what do you see? When was the last time you were moved to tears? How do you face up to what life expects from you? I want to tell you about two things that made me weep this week. They are not connected, and I am frankly not sure […]
#SaturdaySix (January 2018 edition): Beautiful and doomed
Gentle reader: What has been a-floating your metaphorical boat so far in 2018? Welcome to my first SaturdaySix – a monthly round-up of six things that have given me a kick or got me thinking in one way or another. I would love to know what’s inspiring you right now. Please get in touch and […]
Live it full out (anger not invited)
Resolutions don’t work for me. If a change needs to be made, why not make the change right away? But seeing as it’s a new year, why not move to make positive change starting now? I write in the early hours of New Year’s Day 2018, strong coffee to hand, hypnotic music unfurling. The world […]
BowieNeverJaded
“Ideas arrive at such a speed, it’s like watching a fast-motion film of a flower blossom.” This is Brian Eno describing what it was like to work with David Bowie. Creativity was a never-ending torrent. The search for inspiration was a constant. There was and is too much going on in Bowie’s world to view […]
Melt
How do you feel inside when all around you is frozen? The smallest gesture can have the most profound and unexpected impact. The smallest gesture can melt the ice. Every year as the festive mania heats up, I revisit a 2010 post by dearly departed and eternally mysterious blogger The HRD, entitled You’ve been shopped. […]
From golden child to idiot
When you are on a winning streak, there will inevitably come a moment when you are not. The forces of the universe are all conspiring in your favour. Then they are not. You are still you. The sum total of you remains. The essence of you, what makes you you is still there. So what […]
All we really have is now
“All we really have is now.” So says Brix Smith Start. All we really have is our words, thoughts and feelings about this current moment.
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