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I’ve just written and shared a pithy post on Tumblr to confirm my use of the platform for 2024. In short, I will only be writing and sharing poetry …
Dec 13, 2023
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Entering into life
“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows…
Dec 12, 2023
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Circles of compassion
Kindness has become a business and woe betide anyone who doesn’t get with the programme. It’s much the same with grace, humility and forgiveness. Hell…
Dec 9, 2023
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I am still writing
I have been remiss in not writing to Substack. I will — promise. It’s not like I’ve given up completely and, in fact, I have found joy in posting a…
Dec 8, 2023
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November 2023
Science fiction
At what point do we pass from reality to how the hell did it get like this? (Arguably we’re already there!) What, you think this was how it was meant to…
Nov 30, 2023
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The last act
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real…
Nov 13, 2023
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The joy of reading
I read for a living — dense, often turgid prose; but it gets easier with the passing of time (doesn’t everything?). And yet, I still find time to read…
Nov 5, 2023
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October 2023
Going with the flow
“We think our actions express our decisions. But in nearly all of our life, willing decides nothing. We cannot wake up or fall asleep, remember or…
Oct 29, 2023
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Our life
In one of the many podcasts with Stephen Jenkinson, he posits this question (it’s not the precise words but you get the gist of what he’s saying): Where…
Oct 28, 2023
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What choice(s) do we have?
hell is a closed door when you’re starving for your goddamned art but sometimes you feel at least like having a peek through the keyhole. young or old…
Oct 22, 2023
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Starting over
“The splendid thing about falling apart silently... is that you can start over as many times as you like.” ― Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos How many…
Oct 9, 2023
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Way too deep
There are no answers just better questions. Or at least that’s the way I see life. And it’s not because I’m a contrarian and contentious (not always…
Oct 6, 2023
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