Category: Wonderings
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Recycling the Files
Tonight my counsellor asked me what the ‘rubbish’ in my head looks like – what kind of bin? – and I pictured it as piles of dusty old files that look like they’ve spent 40 years in the back of a dentist’s office. Fairly mundane and irrelevant trivia that should be digitised and uploaded to…
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#FirstSevenJobs
People in my Twitter feed are sharing their first seven jobs. I’m not sure of the significance of the number – maybe it’s because you’re bound to have had quite a few shitty jobs before you get to the good stuff? But it struck me because it’s exactly seven jobs that have got me here. I’m…
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Going to Get My Head Shrunk
Though the NHS has really done a very nice job of keeping me alive and relatively sane, it couldn’t give me any kind of counselling beyond internet-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. As I’ve said before, I find CBT very easy to game – a nasty drive of mine – and therefore nearly useless. Tonight, I begin…
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The Stones
Human-manipulated stones have always held a huge fascination for me. The Moai placed on Easter Island by the Rapa Nui. The immense pyramids constructed by ancient engineers. The mysteriously out-of-place bluestones of Stonehenge. I finally got a look at Stonehenge yesterday. It’s a site I’ve been hungrily learning about for most of my life, seizing on…
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In the Hiddenness of June
The rain fell in shivering cords Ropes of sky plummeting straight down The way only summer rain really does The air felt close, protective Like the jungle warmth was on our side June’s hiddenness draped a damp arm around us and wept
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