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Enigma
I turned 31 last Thursday, and sometime later in the week I was wondering how I had changed? Without reflection, it seems like age creeps upon us - catching us completely unaware. I don’t feel any older now than I did when I was in my mid-20s. I was thinking whether my […]
One of my worst habits - of type procrastination - is habitual skipping. Not skipping skipping of course, but the skipping of exercises. If I am reading a book on creative writing or studying a course book, usually at the end of a chapter I will find a writing exercise. Without giving it a second […]
I am not blind. My eyes are not closed to life passing by my window. Yet something is impaired. A wealth of stimuli floods my eyes, but then what. My senses itch but then what….Here lies the problem. I have a lot of trouble articulating the ‘feelings’. I observe but cannot capture the sensory perception.
It […]
My descriptive writing needs a little work - ‘Her hair is BROWN and she has DARK eyes’. This sort of vocabulary would be barely adequate to play ‘Guess Who’ with. Blah, it is times like this that I would usually just stop - resigned to forever being some sort of inarticulate literary mute. I wonder […]
I knew I shouldn’t have come. The orchestra begins to play the gentle introduction; my ears succumb and the notes I have heard so many times before expertly unknit my defenses. I am not ready for what comes next, but I long for it and crave its violence. It arrives with perfect timing; the Cello. […]
What am I doing here? Day 3 of my Starbucks experiment; getting up extra early to do a bit of writing before work. I haven’t yet adjusted to getting up at 10 past 6. I was fiercely resistant to coming to Starbucks this morning, let alone trying to do some writing. With this amount of […]
I was relaxing in a hot bath yesterday afternoon. I find it helps to clear my head like nothing else. I stop thinking about a million things at once, and just think about one thing in particular, or nothing at all. This particular time I realised that soaking in a bath is the most distraction […]
Burnt me head. And me neck.
I seem to have no idea when it comes to being out in the sun. Maybe its a Northern thing, or a geek thing. I have no concern about getting a tan, so when I go out in the sun to read I don’t have a tan seating strategy. Am […]
I am outside in the garden, it is the most gorgeous day. There is hardly a cloud in the sky, it is warm without being hot, and there is the occasional cooling breeze - perfect. I have a ton of work I need to do, but have decided to make the most of the weather. […]
The common theme this week seems to be what side effects occur when lack-of-sleep is countered by large amounts of coffee. It has not been pretty.
The current side effect most apparent is grouchiness - my tolerance levels have hit the ground. Little things are starting to get under my skin, and I am getting pissed […]
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