Should you only write when you’re inspired? Only write when you’re feeling positive? Should you only sing when you feel good? Only put hand to key when you are happy? Should you only paint when you want to? Dip brush into water when you feel a joy bursting out of you? Continue reading “Be led by a vision, start dreaming again.”
Category: Inspiration
To have a friend you have to be a friend
Life gives us different seasons, sometimes different people. Sometimes friends walk through your life, sometimes out. Continue reading “To have a friend you have to be a friend”
Impressions from the Motor Show: it’s about the people, not the cars
Anyone who knows me understands my car knowledge is not without extreme fault. Some of you (one person in particular) has helped me change a flat trye, for which I am grateful. Continue reading “Impressions from the Motor Show: it’s about the people, not the cars”
Gossip: how would we like to be talked about?
Those who read my posts know I talk a lot about dreamy though – I believe – legitimate stuff: following inclinations towards creativity, honouring gifts, leaving parties early to go be a nerd, that sort of thing. Continue reading “Gossip: how would we like to be talked about?”
Who knows? Only you do.
I am learning in life something. You might have already worked it out. Or you might have worked it out and then abandoned it, or only – be like Alice from Alice in Wonderland and myself – and give advice but not take it. Continue reading “Who knows? Only you do.”
Day Trip
Today, on a mildly cold day in mid May (yes I like alliteration) I ventured to the Spa Region or, as I secretly think of it – one of the prettiest places in Victoria, Australia maybe even the World. (Secret’s out now.) Continue reading “Day Trip”
Thoughts on Walking and Nodding
One of the characteristics of studying can, often be a difficulty in having ‘enough’ money to get by. Or “buy” so the pun would go…
Study can soak up both your money, as well as time. For example the term ‘Social Life’ which may cause distress and familiar angst to some of you who understand too well the instance of phrases like this being bandied around: “Oh man, would love to come out but have to study tonight.” Or, “Wish I could drop by the party but this essay is due tomorrow morning and it’s worth [bla bla] percent.”
Or, as was in my case, “I’m sorry I can’t come tonight because I have to work all day tomorrow, yes I know tomorrow is Sunday but weekend work is all I can take because I’m a – yes that glamourous word again – Student!” Continue reading “Thoughts on Walking and Nodding”
Literary and journalistic reflections
I can’t see the bright burning sun of Goals and Purpose anymore. I used to see it in my university studies: both in the frenetic journey of research and essay-writing. The light at the end of the tunnel would be a HD mark: a mailed-back essay with a cover sheet scrawled in my messy handwriting. (like a teenager who just has their pen licence pretending to be a grown-up)
The elation translates into a feeling, could perhaps be turned into dialogue ….
You: (about to look at your essay mark, your stomach churning) “Hmmm, if I get a bad mark, I don’t care anyway.” Very Clint Eastwood bravado approach. Laissez-faire. Before opening it you reason with yourself, bargain with yourself. Continue reading “Literary and journalistic reflections”
