Category: Wonderings
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Can’t Teach Passion
Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large. If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work,…
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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…
