Most concepts have many facets. For the most part thinkers have seen freedom as a challenge, based on a natural urge to impose some ethical structure upon the actions of human beings. In fact thinkers down the ages have concentrated on these actions as have governments as they emerged as necessary forms of control upon…
Category: Quotidial
Ink
There is something about ink that beats ballpoint pens every time; the smell is different, the pens are a lot different and far more beautiful, and the whole filling procedure and seeing the ink flow into the page and how different papers soak up the ink differently are things that perhaps only a professional calligrapher…
Excalibur
So many knights; so many stories of better times. Well no, not better just easier to fathom. You have a deadly dragon and you are a knight who has taken an oath and off you go. Evil this, good that. The world is not like that there are very few instances of good and very…
Magic Wands
Traditionally they come in many shapes and sizes and varying degrees or reality (and with CGI, I imagine invisible/transparent DNA reading wands will become more prevalent in the years ahead) but they all have one thing in common. They are wielded. They are a hand tool. Why? I am sure someone, somewhere has thought of…
Bookmarks
We make them out of almost anything in this family. Anything that has some colour and if it doesn’t have colour then out come the colour pencils. I am not sure if it classes as a tradition but almost every book of the thousands here has their own. Some are charity thin cardboard paintings sent…
Fire
Perhaps it’s the three inches of snow outside that says ‘no grocery delivery today’ that made me think of warmth. Or maybe it was the fact that coming downstairs on a dark winter’s morning I was delighted to find the stove in the front room still burning merrily. And I wonder about opposites. I wonder…
Rock Running
Growing up in a coastal village in Cornwall the beaches obviously became a favourite playground. When the tide ebbs and ribbons of rock glisten with fresh sea water, seaweed, shell fish and rock pools the adventure of looking, searching, getting wet and clambering slowly transform over the year into a knowledge of not what lives…
The Sea
The child in the man
2010
We concentrate too much on time passing.
Connections
Words pander to the literate. In doing this weblog I do not want it to become a kind of psychoanalysis, something to which I am not much given. Many years ago my mother told me that Ted Hughes used words as a form of therapy for some darkness within him. The reason why he is…