I had to renew my prescription this week for the small amount of atypical anti psychotic medication that helps me cope with life and found myself talking about medication and the concept of ‘being oneself’.
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Last year we got some Jerusalem artichoke plants. Four innocuous little plants in small innocuous little pots. We planted them, excited about the idea of growing them and having such an exotic vegetable in the foreseeable future. Fast forward one year.
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We can commit constructive suicide every day
We can kill off the call to the adrenaline rush of threatening our own life
We can kill off the lust to provoke regret from our enemies
We can kill off the enjoyment of indulging in projections of our own self pity of […]
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Someone wrote to me from out of the ether after getting my CD. It was a beautiful letter about feeling found through having connected with the songs but also the most tangible aloneness as though they were calling from the darkness somewhere. People forget that I too am a stranger
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I was asked, if I was a religious person would I pray for someone’s autistic child that this child would become ‘reachable’.
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When my first book, Nobody Nowhere was up for publication my landlord helped deal with the business side of things, with my agent and publishers.
We had several bidders for the book, each with their own take on things. We were offered more by one company but the publisher came […]
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Choices are like shopping, they are a supermarket. Some products will have too many additives and overpower the real subtleties and tastes with what’s imposed. Some products will be too candied, too salted, others all wrapper and
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The christmas tree looks best when standing inside of the branches looking out through the lights.
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I believe there are ‘boy mothers’ and ‘girl mothers’.
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Sometimes you go to a film and you come out feeling, OK, that was ‘nice’, it was a nice night. Sometimes you come out just so gobsmacked, so moved, so inspired, so changed or humbled or impressed by the acting, directing, writing or artistry you just got to say something. So here’s […]
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