Every generation believes it is the first to have found love. To know what it is like to breath in and taste the modern world. But as my mother taught me long ago, everyone who has ever lived has been ‘a modern’. On the field of emotions and feelings and experiences nothing is, in fact,…
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The Unexpected
As a teenager I was sent to boarding school in Devon some aspects of which I actually enjoyed. Many more I did not. As an older boy I recall, either through a reading club or poetry evening, a boy I knew read Robert Louis Stevenson and was amazed by the poem on his gravestone. I…
Apologies
I have been unable to keep the weblog up to date every day because I (master electronics expert I don’t think) burned a hole in my motherboard without the use of a blow torch. I am told this is something of a feat and apart from the fact it could have all caught fire and…
Storytelling
We have told each other stories for as long as there has been an ‘us’ to tell stories and to listen. We create the greatest of all gods and the meanest of all foes and all are derived from what we know and what our sense tell us. And then we bind oursleves to the…
Children
My close friend has now had a second child and one month old she is adorable. And completes a family of a two and a half year old son. I spend happy house with the son going through his books and being shown trucks and figures and lots of cars. I have to build the…
To Be Lost Is Not To Lose
It takes a while to know what we really want in this life. Even those who know early on don’t always get it right, don’t always get on the right path immediately and don’t always find out it was exactly what they wanted. Mostly because we all have to learn about oursleves before we really…
Is Politics Necessary
I heard someone ask once why we needed politicians, surely we would be able to get along without them and stem the tide of arrogance and corruption that seems to flood from political seats of power. It is an interesting question to ask why we need to be lead? Why will a thousand men do…
Friendship
When I was younger it was said that one is lucky to find one person to love in one’s lifetime and equally lucky to have two good friends to trust. it is few and in I was struck by the way friendships are working on the Internet and how social network sites promote ‘friends’, which…
The Exalted Gate
Many years ago when I first met Annie Ovenden I asked her if I could write some fairy stores inspired by her paintings. I didn’t think anything would come of the letter I sent and was genuinely surprised when she appeared at the door of the place I was working with transparencies and pictures of…
Art
If art is there to prove that people may Attempt to prove they can create in time A universe within the mind that sways The heart as surely as the stars sway mine, That makes the blood a river longing for The sea, makes a microbe, stand for something, Makes a tree a bone rooted…