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☙ the hermit We need to find forums in which we can delve deeper than the often facile exchanges over Twitter, or the sprawling comment threads on a blog , which rarely reach the levels of criticality one can easily…
show your hair
My grandmother told me, “Never hide your green hair – They can see it anyway.” – Angeles Arrien There are stories I have told myself for years: That I am not good enough – That I am not worth listening…
dude
David duChemin is a really awesome dude. Not very long ago (I’m a slow learner) I realised that, if I want my photography to improve, I need to hang out with people whose work I admire. I was stuck. Wanting to…
no right turn
Sometimes this happens to me… Sometimes it really feels like I haven’t made a right turn in ages. Everything feels wrong. I feel lost, confused, frustrated… angry, stressed and shouty, or I retreat. I *think* I’m getting better at stopping…
guardian of the sacred crayons
apparently i have a ‘smudging face’. a look and poise not used at any other time in my life than when i smudge the house, or temple, or retreat. i have no idea where this face comes from. or why…
the possibility of going bat-shit crazy
188/365, by Noukka Signe on flickr it’s taken me a really long time to learn how to be alone. i don’t mean the kind of alone that happens only when everyone else i live with leaves the house and i…
complicated mathematics
i believe it’s no accident that things are happening to me right now that bring me to an awareness of a 30-something year long conversation i have been having with myself. things in my professional life have been difficult over…
love after love
venus (after surgery). banksy installation at the bristol museum 2009 so, anyone who reads this blog (or any of the blogs of emma, jo, lisa, megg, penny, sas and susannah) will already know that last weekend we all got together…
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