When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up? I don’t think I thought about that at five. I was just very keen to get to school to learn how to read because that’s all I wanted to be able to do – read. I remember having conversations that were […]
Asides
To each day
Dreaming of Flowers Candles Incense A cool Autumn breeze Green tea sipped from a pretty cup Piano music tinkling over my shattered nerves Picking them up, one by one, knitting them into a harmony Something to hold me together Each day, a little of this mountain is conquered I take notes for the next day […]
Daily prompt
What’s something most people don’t understand? Another persons perspective. We can assume. We can be told and seek sincerely to understand but unless we are the within the lived experience from birth to present moment – we cannot understand them. The simple fact of knowing this though, brings us closer.
Divergent Neurons
My head is full of pressure serious things which must be done immediately Other parts of my brain run like children out of the house away from the arguing adults They are chasing dopamine Which makes me anxious Add it to the stack that piles precariously on my neck It’s so heavy it might break […]
What Matters?
None of it matters. Unless it matters to us. And then it doesn’t matter who else it matters to. Matter is just matter without the heart as it breathes life into a thing And afterwards? Who knows if the love will be enough It doesn’t matter, it’s just stuff The reality only ever was In […]
Words out West
Spinning my wheels in space trying to do everything at once Thoughts race Make them stop Part of me just wants to stare and think and marinate *It’s the day after. We had a massive workshop yesterday. A masterclass in writing. It felt like that, perhaps due to our excellent presenter Vicki Bennet. Vicki has […]
Plucked bald
Ouch that hurt I just moved 15 or so poems off the blog because they have been picked up by a crawl of my site for a new book I’m publishing shortly It looks a little bald suddenly Not to worry, hopefully the book will be worth it – more on that later X
Anticipation or distraction
Anticipation is a thing of nerves and tissue It distracts Like a bird that attacks it’s reflection in a window Leading nowhere Delivering nothing Except a sore head *I’ve got some exciting news pending. I said I wouldn’t announce it until next week, but I’ve never been one to hold out that long. In the […]
AI art and what it means for writers
Yesterday I found an AI art generative programme. Joanna Penn (the creative penn podcast) talked this week about how she is obsessed with hers and is using it for all things. It is inspiring and fun to run her characters and scenes through the software to see what they came up with as an image. […]
What tattoo do you want and where would you put it? I would get a “my wife is awesome” tattoo and I would put it on my husbands hand – to remind him