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An experience I feel we don’t have enough of these days is the feeling of singing in chorus together. I have always liked songs with chorus where many voices join together to answer the call, join voices The first time I noticed the power of this was at school and it probably marks one of […]

I stood by the shore, afternoon sun, with the surfboard and wearing my wetsuit ready to enter the warm waters of the West coast of France. Recently, I had found a necklace that I wore when I was a child. It was a string necklace with a carving of a dolphin. I wore it again […]

In those moments, it did feel like the mind was expanding / releasing – opening, like the mouth on the pope’s fish-head hat. Like a fish gulping cool waters – a herring fish, silvery and slipping through the currents of the Atlantic ocean, then suddenly going to deep waters. The deeper it is, the darker […]

What’s the aubergine doing in the drying rack? Well, we’ve just just finished scrubbing it of any viruses that might be on its surface. It’s drying now alongside the plates, cups – and bottles and tins. What is this term ‘new normal’ that I keep hearing? Is it normal? Or is it new? Or is […]

I’ve been at home now for two weeks. I decided to self-isolate fairly promptly to avoid any risk to myself, my family or anyone else. I was pleased to see the advice from Nassim Nicholas Taleb was finally gaining traction: over-caution in pandemics is actually good. Currently there is a low risk to myself (the […]

I remember listening to a documentary about the Israel-Palestine conflict. They were interviewing some Israelis who were living comfortably in their gated communities somewhere in an occupied territory surrounded by olive groves and cypress trees. They described how they had put up with all sorts of shelling and bombs and gunfire. They could deal with […]

So, I said, I think I’ll be ok. That’s fine, she said. So, you’ve found your inner wolf. My inner wolf? What did the wolf signify – I didn’t really know. I was a little bit scared of the symbol. I reflected and one early morning I felt the urge to draw a scene with […]

This morning in the cafeteria, I ate breakfast. As I was walking out the door, there was a small touchscreen tablet device. It was asking for feedback. I gave some feedback about my experience today. I looked at this poor little device, sat there all day just doing one function. All that processing power and […]

I had a dream the other day that reminded me of a film and an old story. I dreamt that I was in the gym with some very alpha dudes from my school days. I remember that, when I was at school, it was important for me to get that acknowledgement from them and it […]

Last night, I spent the evening looking around my grandmother’s house to see what I could keep for nostalgic reasons and (don’t tell anyone) but I was also rooting around to see if I could find some booty that has some value. In a week or so Grandma’s moving into a home and whatever is […]