We are given the authority to label things. Then we live with the consequences. As I sat in a building purpose built for worship, I watched as at least a hundred people walked in, crossed them selves, knelt, and labelled that space as sacred. The same naming has been done by thousands of people for […]
Read more "Sacred Spaces"Writing from the back of a car sailing through the night of South Central Sweden, returning west from a Camp on the east coast I can’t sleep even though I haven’t slept properly in days. I share the car with three incredible individuals and have attempted a lullaby care of La Disputes newer album. I […]
Read more "Tour diaries one. "Every moment could count. Every step can get us closer to our goals or further away from our dreams. I spent 9 months in the early 2000’s playing a computer game constantly. i am not dissing computer games, but during that time my guitar skills got slower, my reading speed got less comprehensive, i wasn’t […]
Read more "Where to go…."My job currently has me in front of screens quite a lot of the time, which I love, but there are moments where my body is like “GET AWAY FROM THE SCREENS!!” So today I walked up a hill to draw and take photos and as I was going up I listened to a song […]
Read more "High on a Mountain, Lower Still"The times have watched someone skilled, talented and influential not only not see their own potential, but get oddly comfortable with lives empty of dreams are uncountable. But the only thing holding us back from our ideas changing our world is usually just us. The reason we don’t become rock stars is because we never played […]
Read more "…our desire for rock stardom."Our bodies are made of cycles. Blood. Oxygen. Nerves. Muscles. Bones. Etc etc.. I’m not a doctor. But. We also have some pretty hardcore engine rooms. Brain, heart, guts. And sometimes we have different stoves. Back burners, that keep the room warm and are slow burning till the moment they need to get stoked for […]
Read more "Stoves. Our passions and freezing cold forgotten dreams."I learned how to use humour as a weapon in high school under the guise that if you kept people laughing, then they wouldn’t punch you as much. This can also be the rational behind keeping people from getting intimate with you. Laughing also masks a need http://wp.me/p1utPe-rA be vulnerable. But laughing also breaks down masks. […]
Read more "We know what we do."In a desert where there is no water, one will always be drawn to a pool of water, an oasis, even if it’s a mirage. Even if we kinda think its a mirage, we will still head towards it because we are convinced its better than the desert. What if we chose to be in […]
Read more "The desert to paradise."I love babies. I love families. I love the idea and the practice of changing the world for the better. One of the cool things about families is, it’s a restart. Its new. It recreates culture and tradition and thinking. Families train us to think and feel and interact. And, as happens, we get trained […]
Read more "making babies."To an extent, I was taught to think. Dad would read to us from proverbs at breakfast and discuss them with us. Mum would sit on my bed and chat through what was happening in life and why it would be wise to think through certain other options. Back then it seemed unfair. I just […]
Read more "If we were only taught to think."
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