– a poem written yesterday for the new collection called “Blue: experiments in sound” which will be finished by the end of this month. Seemed appropriate to share it today… Blue was a big fan – the day Bowie died, he wore black, was on Facebook early that morning telling everyone how devastated he was and then… … Read more
When we hold events, workshops, conferences, or just bring people together for a key meeting that will shape our work for the future, it is so easy to just move on to the next piece of work without reflecting on the experience. How often have you been involved in running an event, and then at … Read more
Can a year be a specific colour? Is this some sort of synaesthetic experiment? Well, not exactly. I have written several posts about BlueWater Books and also about the new creative project “Blue: experiments in sound”. So, the nearest I get to a resolution for the new year is to say that this is the … Read more
The concept of individuation was first brought to my attention when reading the work of Carl Jung. I would have been in my early thirties when I started exploring this idea; that stage in life when I was struggling with new identities like parenthood and trying to figure out what I was here on the planet to … Read more
Standing on a railway platform 5 minutes ago, and I looked around me. There were 20 people waiting for a train – of these, only 2 were not looking at or listening to a phone. We spend so much time these days living in the bubble that the smart phone creates around us. People walk … Read more
The quietness on this blog can be explained by the fact that I got married and went on a honeymoon with my wife June. We toured through the USA. Lots of memorable things from the holiday, but one of particular note was the time we spent in San Francisco. Whilst there I completed a pilgrimage that … Read more
In my last post I suggested a few possible ideas for topics to produce blog posts about. Thanks to those who sent me messages with their thoughts on the topics they would like me to write about. I will get to those as soon as I can. In the meantime, I am on a train … Read more
I am warming up to produce new blog posts. Since the Writing Marathon I have gone quiet on this blog. Partly I have been massively distracted preparing for my wedding (yay!) and I have been really busy with the day job! It’s also probably true that the writing of some 12,000 words in 3 days … Read more
I did it! Three days of writing and I have completed a manuscript. At the start of the challenge I had 5,000 words and some ideas for what else I could write about. Over the last three days I came up with a title (Believing in What we Do), turned those ideas into a set … Read more
It’s Monday morning and day three of the writing marathon. Let’s begin with some quick numbers. I have written 8,181 words including three blog posts and three chapters of the book I am working on. I have also written three poems. That’s pretty sustained! I didn’t write into the evening on either Saturday or Sunday. … Read more