Well, this in my original plans would have been the week to decide what to do and what to create for the FMP. We still don’t know what is going to happen re. college and the final exhibition, not to mention how we are going to be graded at the end of this multi-faceted year. Still, I am here trying to make it all work, as are my colleagues doing in their isolation. First, the sad notes: the book is stuck and left to how it was during the holidays and when I experienced the sy

I have been interviewed by Dave Cornthwaite on his Self Propelled podcast and here it is! https://anchor.fm/selfpropelled/embed/episodes/Why-Happiness-is-Just-a-Mood-ec80ou/a-a1qstdq Here is the link: HERE Thank you for listening! #mood #virginiawoolf #daveconrthwaite #happiness #podcast #jamesjoyce #coronavirus #vedanta #meditation #silence #yestribe #covid19 #theory #cats #earthquake #friuli

We all have doubts in our practice and to me, practice has become a way to self-enquiry. PL said that that could be seen in any of my pieces already, but it was I who did not see that. This blessed time of silence and repose and stillness gives me time to understand the reasons why I am doing what I am doing. Especially thinking that the whole idea of my FMP was about “DO YOU SEE ME”: so, now, in this lockdown, do you see me? How does it feel to be here, not seen, and not cre

I am back at college after London and after my solitary writing residency in Morecambe for 5 days [bliss…]. In the meantime I have: chosen the university: York. I have chosen York for many different reasons, but mainly because I need to leave, I need challenges, I need to be challenged, I need to meet and talk with different people, I need to see different places, and to be stimulated by different things. I am aware of the fears connected with leaving Blackburn as an academic