It’s going to be a short post, this one. Over the last couple of months I have been experimenting with an exercise – to produce 30 blog posts over 30 days. I set out well – with a series of titles, I worked away at them, producing new material. After a few days, I was … Read more
It was a little box, made from cardboard and filled with scrolls and small memories. It was not large, the footprint fitted in the palm of my hand. I had made it from cardboard to a pattern, and then shared the idea with a group I was working with as part of a Community Arts … Read more
Peace as the absence of sound. The room with no sounds leaking into it, where we can still ourselves and listen to the voice within, the endless chatter in our mind. To find a way to still the voices and enter silence. To avoid the endless distraction that keeps us away from the difficult stuff. … Read more
Drink I Ah, the toast we share when we clink our glasses, happy that we have achieved something of which we are proud. We want to share that with those around us, so we raise our glasses and drink to the success. That’s what it’s like each time I fill a glass with a good … Read more
How often do I take photos of myself? Rarely, very rarely. I’m usually looking at something out in the world, and thinking to myself – wow, that’s amazing and I need to capture that image. It’s rarely me! It’s the introduction of smart phones with cameras facing in both directions that have created the opportunity … Read more
Inner Reflection Without reflection, we are destined to keep making the same mistakes over and over again. Failing once is not failure, it is a process of learning. Each attempt teaches us something, that helps us to get to the end goal of achievement. Inner reflection – the steps we take to work out what … Read more
A series of blog posts derived from randomly chosen words as titles. Today is… unfolding exactly as it should, so said the new age mystic who really had no clue what the day was going to bring. Instead, she was staring into a large crystal bowl which she had just sat in the same room … Read more
A series of blog posts derived from randomly chosen words as titles. Blue is my favourite colour. Maybe it’s because I have blue eyes, perhaps it’s because I am a supported of Leicester City football club and they play in blue and white. For whatever reason, one day back in 1984 I began to write … Read more
A series of blog posts derived from randomly chosen words as titles. From the window, where I work – I can see the River Mersey, a tidal river. It flows from left to right and out into the Irish Sea. Except when the tide is coming in – and then it looks like it is … Read more
This is the first of a series of blog posts I am going to write on 30 topics, each derived from a simple title. It’s a technique I have seen in use in many places. Often the emphasis is on taking photos rather than writing short pieces. It reminds me of a challenge I did … Read more