Fed Up
“At any minute it is what we are and are doing, not what we plan to be and do that counts.” – J. R. R. Tolkien I’m angry. Angry to the point of having headaches. To the [...]
Risk-taking.
“Maybe everything. End up with nothing.” – Jeff Noon Clinging to a rock wall opens up opportunities to assess your choices. And to make choices: choose your direction. Choose to forge ahead. [...]
A Place of Revelations
“The world is good despite my sighs.” – Nikos Kazantzakis Chris and I have both spent time in Greece in our younger years. When Chris was between six and nine years old, he [...]
Trying It On For Size
“Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of [...]
There Is No Present Like the Time
I have never felt the presence of time in a place like this before. The Orkney Islands are permeated with time. It washes over the purple heather fields. It winds down the narrow stone streets. [...]
Back on the Road
“Take what you want, says God, and pay for it.” – M.M. Kaye It is the nature of choices that one precludes another. I resent this because there is nothing more frustrating to me than a path not [...]
The Weekly: The Big and the Mundane
The Weekly – 13th March 2017 Something big has happened. I can’t talk about it yet, but it’s something I’ve been waiting for my entire life. It arrived, as do all desires, [...]
The (long overdue) Weekly
The Weekly – 7th March 2017 “I do not wish to be good. I wish to be hell on wheels, or dead.” – Martha Gellhorn Time has been on fast-forward. March is traditionally my [...]