Sir Arthur Conan Doyle reminds us that when making a decision, we should consider not only the possibilities, but also the impossibilities.
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A black & white week: Stagulent statuary, coffee, space broccoli
What would seven days in your life look like without colour, without people? Here are my pictures of a monochromatic week in the life of one @mjcarty. Fresh from last month’s #Inktober daily drawing challenge, my lovely friend Kate Griffiths-Lambeth set me another challenge, one that she herself was also undertaking. Take a photograph a day […]
Moment
Every day of your life (no matter how unexceptional) contains perfect moments (no matter how fleeting). My friend Nicholas Creswell tweeted something wonderful to me the other week: “I do find my most treasured and vivid memories […]
What’s driving you?
Gentle reader: Where does your own motivation come from? Where does motivation originate, and how can it be replenished? What drives people to keep going and keep achieving over sustained periods? Martin Amis is the master of the two-worder. He can create pairings of words that cut to the essence of their subject with a […]
After the snow, the silence
There’s just something transportingly beautiful about waking to find it’s snowed overnight. The world is still, silent and white. This morning (Sunday 17 January 2016, also my seventh Twitterversary) is the first day on which any snow has settled in the nearly 18 months since I moved here. It was an honour and a delight […]
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