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Monthly Archives: September 2011
write, why..?
I was recently asked why I want to write. Now, I’ve been asked this question before and I hazard I’ll face it again in future – only this time, the query begged something deeper. Which has more do with the … Continue reading
location, location…
In case you ever get lost and need direction, remember: This useful piece of clever cartography (erhm, perhaps ‘heartography’ is a better word) was created by Australian self taught artist, Linda Wilson (aka AbsurdWordPreferred). Doesn’t it just rock?
night air…
Busy past few days catching up (and nearly splitting my sides laughing at jokes about ginja’s and their habits with hobbits) with old friends, meeting new ones, driving through trippy misty wonderlands and settling hefty vet bills. So in the … Continue reading
the risk…
I’m struggling to write. I’ve composed countless posts in my head this past week but as soon as I sit down at my computer, the blinking screen leeches words to useless letters that dissolve like mist, evaporating on a summer’s day. … Continue reading
Posted in Be inspired!
Tagged feline leukaemia, love, Morpheus, Peter McWilliams, Writer's Block
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relatively speaking…
Relatively Honest is relatively good*. Which is probably pretty darn good given I read it last week while Morpheus slowly slipped away. Written by seasoned Seattlite, Molly Ringle and published online by ireadiwrite (the same inspired people who signed Iain Thomas … Continue reading
Posted in What's read...
Tagged Morpheus, Oprah, Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You, ireadiwrite, London, Cameron, Home and Away, Molly Ringle, Relatively Honest, Midsummer Night's Dream, British, Cassanova, Ed, The Lion King, Seattle
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a lost would…
Since I was old enough to read, I’ve been in love with words. Before I’d learnt to unlock pages, I fell for fairytales, whispered bedtimes with indulgent adults. I grew up on a strict diet of sunshine and Story Teller tapes … Continue reading
Posted in Lines and rhymes...
Tagged cassette, dream, fairytales, love, Manhattan, marketing, muse, passion, Story Teller, words, writing
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Dawn of the Beautiful Dream…
If you believe it (what with howling gales, wild waves and belting rain) this month marks our ascent into Spring. And after a horrid winter of despair, disillusion, destruction, death, false prophets and fool’s gold I’d say we’re due a … Continue reading
Posted in What's on the decks...
Tagged (don't) Tremble, (I'd Go The) Whole Wide World, 2 Bodies 1 Heart, Above the Bones, After The Storm, Alexi Murdoch, All My Days, All The Wine, All Time High, Angels and Airwaves, Are You The One?, At My Most Beautiful, Begin Again, Bishop Allen, Bob Schneider, Bright Eyes, Can’t Take It In, Cradle Song, Dawn of the Beautiful Dream, Do Ya, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Eric Himan, Everlast, Flower Parts, Great Lake Swimmers, Heart to Heart, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, home, Hotel Yorba, I Do, I Like The Way This Is Going, I Really Need Love, If My Heart Was a House, Imogen Heap, John Denver, Just Jinger, Lisa Gerrard and Hans Zimmer, Love Song, Low Anthem, Mishka, Mumford and Sons, Neil Nathan, Nick Cave, No Urgency, Noah and the Whale, Now We Are Free, Origin of Love, Owl City, Oxygen, Partner’s H.P., Placebo, REM, Rita Coolidge, Roll On Arte, Safer, Shriekback, The Ancient Common Sense of Things, The Beautiful Girls, The Bees, The Cure, The Eels, The Felice Brothers, The Jolly Boys, The National, The Passenger, The Tallest Man on Earth, The Veils, The Waterboys, The White Stripes, The XX, Thrown Right At Me, True Blue, Tuesday Morning, Unison Falling Into Harmony, Universal Hall, Valkyrie Missile, VCR, We Will Shine Like Gold, Willy Mason, Wreckless Eric, Xavier Rudd
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in sight…
Having had a stroke myself, I was deeply moved by Jill Bolte Taylor’s account of hers in My Stroke of Insight. The book was lent to me by long time friend, Beth, who’d been through a harrowing tangle with a … Continue reading
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Tagged Beth, Harvard Medical School, Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight, neuroanatomist, TED
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{ hiatus }
My apologies for the radio silence – it’s been one of those weeks. Off to a fabulously promising start, Thursday took a sharp dive with the news that my beloved Morpheus has late stage feline leukaemia. Friday saw me back … Continue reading
