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I like well modulated grammar. I appreciate the clarity and accuracy that comes from applying the rules. I also enjoy seeing those rules creatively and consciously broken. Language lives; usage comes and goes and I embrace innovation. But (and, yes, these days it is fine to start a sentence with “but”), there are some things [...]
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I have been interested in Alexander Technique for a few years now and have read a great deal about it, although sadly I have not quite been able to afford the experience of 1-1 teaching that is so essential to really progressing with it. Frederick Alexander is one of the heroes of what I have [...]
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321 Stop Running and Start Living by Lorilee Lippincott My rating: 4 of 5 stars If you are anything like me you have a vague sense of desperation about how cluttered and busy your life is and an equally vague idea that at some point you will go about simplifying it. The problem is knowing [...]
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Try as I might, I can’t dampen my enthusiasm for a handful of writers I like to call the “rugged individualists” of the 19th and early 20th Centuries: Henry Thoreau (1817-1862), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), Thomas Paine (1737-1809), Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) and even Jan Smuts (1870-1950). What keeps drawing [...]
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May 2010, Alnmouth beach, UK The emptied cover of a book has been brought in on the tide and left on the beach. This is all that is left after the ocean has digested it, page by page. As I look at this, I realise that there is really only one right way to read [...]
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Reflecting on the last year of creativity after having quit my full time job in order to pursue some creative stuff that had become too lively to be confined to evenings and weekends, I have learned a few lessons: 1. It Takes Longer Than You Think Firstly, until I tried to give myself over to [...]
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