Happy Sunday, happy December, and happy one-year not-posting-on-social-media anniversary to me. That’s right, I realised a few days ago that the last time I shared a post on social media was December 1st 2023. Looking back, I don’t remember deciding on a specific date to cease posting on social media. Rather, it was more of…
Read moreTake Me Back (Song Spotlight)
Happy Sunday. This week I thought I’d do a song spotlight as I haven’t done one in a while. The song I’d like to share is one I wrote a few years ago as an ode to the innocence of childhood. It’s called Take Me Back, and as the name suggests it’s about reminiscing and…
Read moreOn Quiet Time
Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m no stranger to the benefits of quiet time – I’ve previously written about the need for boredom, solitude and guarding our attention. However, this is something I keep coming back to every couple of days, and I find myself regularly reminded of it in one form…
Read moreThe Traveller (Short Story)
Back in the summer (it feels like a long time ago) I shared a short story I wrote on this blog, and inadvertently started a new series where, once every few weeks I share a short story I’ve been working on. The last one of these I shared was I Was There. This week I’m…
Read moreAre We Too Busy To Make Art?
How’s your week been? Busy? Restful? A healthy mix of both? Without knowing who you are and when you’re reading this I’d hazard a guess that your response is more likely to be busy than restful. I say this because as a society, we are increasingly donning busyness as a badge of honour. To be…
Read moreMake More Art
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’d know there’s been so much horror and tragedy in the news lately. It seems every day there’s a new story about hundreds or thousands of people dying in some faraway land. Maybe it’s a drone strike in Gaza that’s levelled an entire neighbourhood, a bombing in Lebanon…
Read moreI Was There (Short Story)
A few weeks ago I shared a short story I wrote on a train on this blog, and inadvertently started a new series where, once every few weeks I’d share a new short story I’ve been working on. I’m back this week with another one of those, called I was there. I’d love to hear…
Read moreSummer in September – Part 2
Last week I wrote about adopting seasonal metaphors for thinking about life as a whole, and how a late summer inspired me to write a song – a note to self really – that some things are out of our control. Naturally, this week I’ve decided to follow up with a post sharing the song…
Read moreSummer in September
Today is October 6th (where has the year gone?) which means we’re firmly in the northern hemisphere’s autumn season. All you need to do is look around for the telltale signs that summer’s done and autumn’s here; that is if you happen to reside sufficiently north of the equator to experience four distinct seasons, with…
Read moreOn Connecting
Last night, I attended an event organised by an actor training company called Both Feet, which specialises in training actors for careers in theatre and film. The event enabled me (and others in the audience) to gain insights into the sorts of activities and exercises that these actors undertake, a lot of which are geared…
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