KAIROS HADITHLast week I benchpressed a new personal best, 110kgs. It was an incredible experience. I didn’t know if I could do it but I was spurred on by my friend who spotted me and told me that I could do it. I got ready, focussed and lay on the bench, looking up. I went for […]
Ernest Hemmingway wrote a short story containing only six words. It’s a sad story and you can easily find it if you want. One day, whilst I was browsing a property website I found a collection of words that told me an equally sad story and made me reflect on where our soceity had gone. […]
I wondered around the Museum Für Islamische Kunst (Museum of Islamic design) in Berlin and I was immediately in awe of this world of detail. In the same way that there is an awe in the vastness of space, I felt an awe in the opposite: a universe of small, intricate detail. Much of this […]
I dreamt that I had been invited to an interview at a huge successful tech firm. I was invited to walk around the buildings, meet people and observe how the company works. I was very excited and impressed. I then took the elevator to the top floor of the skyscraper where I was expecting to […]
Today is the first time in my life that I am looking through CVs with a view to recruiting someone. It’s slightly uncanny. I actually logged in to write about something else (and hopefully I will after this) and a song came on from my songlist. It was Beth/Rest by Bon Iver. It took me back […]
A friend once told me a story about when his old car’s sloppy engine cut and the brake became a useless foot pump. The car drifted silently along the beach road, past palm trees and bistro tables. His son in the back seat leaned forward and said, “What are you going to do now, Dad?”. […]
Man is a strong word. Man is a word starting from the soft gentle hum of the closed lips, opening to the open vowel throttling from the chest and then and abrupt constanant stop. Man is a statement. M. The soft hum of a warm beating heart. A. The most ancient of sounds, the most […]
Every time I open my mouth to speak, an invisible hand holds up an unseen megaphone. This megaphone is unlike any other – it is inverted. My words pour into the wide opening, journeying towards the narrow mouthpiece. Each word is contracted, contorted, bruised and squeezed, as letters and sounds fall away on their pathway […]
You know the scene: The airport lounge Reclined at ease in a sofa, with leather shoes, creme caramel coloured. Smart shirt but not too smart; familiar demeanour but not too familiar. There’s a distinct and subtle inflection learnt on a school paddock. Then there’s a gentlemanly trust gained headfirst between the backsides of two muddy […]
We speed around on complex compounds, which might as well be superstitions for all that we understand them. We put our faith and our lives in the hands of those who play with nature. They convince us it can be improved upon; faster, lighter, stronger, better. I was recently taking a journey on a coach, […]