Mapping connections amongst my explorations. Exploring different arts & media to create & collate inspiration from so many sources. Music takes greater prominence with songwriting & a new music section. Writing & creating art explorations I’ve been exploring lots of different media this week: ✨ Emotion Through Motion – wellness with drawing, music, dancing, yin […]
Posts with the poetry tag
Weeknotes: Heavenly intersection between trees and writing, pure delight
Nerding out about trees The Urban Tree Festival came at just the right time. 9 days of intensely pleasurable tree nerdery when I have a schedule that’s flexible enough to take full advantage of it. I don’t want the Urban Tree Festival to end. But it will. When it does, I’m intending to nerd out […]
Transition, limbo, slack: The space between – a poem, maybe
Unscheduled time. Retreat. Weekend. Time away. A break. We all need it. A change that’s as good as a rest. Quiet before the storm. A place to land. It’s the inbetween. Betwixt. Betwain. Beware the wrath that falls upon the one who gets between it and me. The irony of writing this blog post in […]
Give it the ole frazzle dazzle! Then, wind down
12 hours of study-work-study And my brain leaks from my ears. Give it the ole frazzle dazzle! A pain in my neck reminds me, I am alive. Give it the ole frazzle dazzle! Head aching is a voice note to Drink more tea. Slowly, I sip. Or greedily. Give it the ole frazzle dazzle, And […]
Weeknotes: How to practise resting without guilt, and stop overworking 🎥
Stuff I’m grateful I did this week Embarked on a 3 month retreat in daily life with Jaya Ashmore Family Constellations (BIPOC only) by Meenadchi, a modality for ancestral healing descended from Zulu medicine New Suns festival by the Barbican, a feminist literary festival returns to explore the legacy of science-fiction author Octavia Butler and […]
The week that started 15th June 2020
Retreat Went on an online retreat this week, that replaced the Dharma, Body and Connection to Earth retreat at Gaia House that was cancelled due to the lockdown. Our theme was Decolonizing the mind and cultivating the causes of happiness, led by Anushka Fernandopulle and Bonnie Duran, with guest contribution from Elvina Charley. I’m so […]
The week that started 25th May 2020
Writing ALL the things I got really behind with my weeknotes… Whoops! I’ve been writing other things instead: speculative short story about a world that values busyness over everything else, and the radicals resisting that; I find sci-fi so hard to write, not happy with this one (yet) but really glad I did it short […]
The week that started 11th May 2020
On death in Mary Oliver’s poetry I love how Mary writes of death in White Owl Flies Into and Out of the Field. There’s a whole section of owl poems in the collection of her selected poems that I’m reading. Which makes me wonder about owls as harbingers of death or representations of death for […]
The week that started 2nd September
I flew to Málaga on Monday; I fly back this Monday too, a week later. Views that greeted me shortly after arrival…: Watched ‘Styling Hollywood’ with friends, researched crocodilians for my novel and ate beans on toast. Living the life. I read out an extract from my novel, which was exhilarating, and I’m so glad […]
The week that started 26th August
This has been a week of endings. But I’m not sad. Because I see it as a week of renewed beginnings. Like, because I’ve finished The Artist’s Way, again, I get to start it. Again. Endings are a cause for celebration. I’ve successfully completed four weeks of study. I’ve learned about learning. Now I’ll learn […]