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Eat like a sparrow, drink like a fish. Write like your life depends on it.

  • jumping ship

    Checking out. That feeling when you know you’re leaving but you’re not sure where you’re going to. It happens when trust has been broken and old loyalties falter. It comes usually after a long period of trying to please others to keep the peace or make ‘you’ as a problem go quietly, conveniently, into the Continue reading

  • those breathless spaces

    You feel atomic, dangerous. Like your particles are near to leaping off you and bouncing around in the air. You’re ungraspable, unidentifiable and have the potential to conduct, react, combust. But you don’t, you just keep going. And people are attracted, magnetised to you, or repelled. You walk on, through the parted crowds, among the Continue reading

  • keep going

    Life is ugly but it can be beautiful if you know where to look. Some people have that rare ability to cut through the bullshit and lay bare the fundamentals of our existence. Pain, mistreatment and burnout are all necessary ingredients of the dull suffering that makes the goodness shine. Those bad aspects are, to Continue reading