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This afternoon I got a postcard … from myself. About seven weeks ago, I was embarking on the four days of heady alternative reality that was Greenbelt 2011. The good folk of the Feig community based at Gloucester Cathedral held a Communion service in the midst of a lavish feast for what looked like about [...]
Filed under: Art, Inspiration, Miscellanea | Tagged: Arts, Creativity, Food, Journaling, Postcard, Spirituality | 2 Comments »
I have been trying a new way of keeping a journal using the lovely little “storyboard” notebook by Moleskine. The idea is simply to fill a frame a day with some little sketch. This really works well for me because I am not a great drawer but I do enjoy doodling and the challenge of filling a 5x7cm [...]
Filed under: Art, Inspiration | Tagged: Arts, Creativity, Doodle, Journaling, Spirituality | 4 Comments »
Sometimes I get asked why I am vegan. This was more common when I first transitioned into abstaining from animal products. Nowadays I am more likely to get what seems like polite and accommodating indifference. I sit at tables longing for someone to pop the question and give me permission to discuss something that is [...]
Filed under: Contemporary Culture, Environment, Milk Monday, Natural Living, Vegan, Vegetarian | Tagged: Animal welfare, Cooking, Dairy, Food, Greening, Lifestyle, Spirituality, Veganism, Vegetarianism | 2 Comments »
I periodically attempt to realign my daily activities with my values, goals and priorities in life. Being someone who has “serial passions” (i.e. I get profoundly “into” things for weeks or months and then drop them for the next thing), I am constantly needing to check that the stuff I am spending my time on [...]
Filed under: Inspiration, Time Management | Tagged: Creativity, Spirituality, Time management | 3 Comments »
When I gave up working in a stable, full-time job this time last year in order to pursue a creative streak, I thought I had a good idea of where that would take me. I had a plan to write, commercially, and grow a freelancing business as quickly as possible. However, as soon as I [...]
Filed under: Writing | Tagged: Arts, Creative Writing, Humour, Local, Spirituality | 4 Comments »
On a student’s door, a postcard bearing the legend: “I have not made up my mind whether to be a shining example or a horrible warning.” Whenever I think of these words, I also think of Moses, who probably never had the opportunity to make up his mind, but came by a roudabout way to [...]
Filed under: Inspiration | Tagged: Reading, Spirituality | 3 Comments »
