Category: Wonderings
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Rollin’ On
One month ago today I wrote this post. I had just been informed that hibu would be undergoing some ‘restructuring’ which of course caused me (needlessly, it turned out) to fear for my life, as hibu is in fact my life – or has been for three years. Three years is only a little time,…
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The Power of Sharing
Few things are more beautiful than sharing knowledge and words. I just tweeted something about poetry with the hashtag #amwriting, which is a lovely stream I stole from my mentorman @bobblebardsley. I quickly got a tweet back from @PoetAtArms with a link to a sonnet he’d written. Shameless self-promotion? Maybe, don’t care. It’s a fabulous…
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I’m All For Lana
Lana Del Rey’s lyrics are so like Charles Bukowski’s poems. Both sexist, full of unpleasantness and glamorisation of promiscuity, drugs, smoking, drink driving… But so richly indulgent of glorious and bitter Americana, the “dark side of the American dream”. As you know, this girl has long fought (unsuccessfully) an unhealthy obsession with the ‘beauty in decay’.…
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I Am Happy
Today feels like a good day, a positive day. The sun is out, the office is quiet, there’s promise of lovely dinner this evening – I’m happy. It really doesn’t take much these days. I’m grateful for stupid things that make absolutely no ripple in anyone else’s life, but keep me from retiring to my duvet cloud…
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Joining the Content Revolution
Oh hey. So I’ve written some things for Content Revolution – a new blog concerned with all things design, marketing, writing and so forth. My first piece for them is about using the talent you have available to you to create lovely (and HUMAN) content. It doesn’t matter if that talent can’t spell, or doesn’t…
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