I am the universe. The universe is not something which is outside of me. Not only is there no difference between me and my surroundings, they are not two separable things. It is not even straightforward to exactly define what is and isn’t me at any particular point in time. My survival is entirely dependent […]
I’m walking back to my house from the shop, carrying some food. Something grabs the bottom of my left trouser leg. I turn quickly, but there is nothing there, move my bags out of the way. A tiny dog, maybe a 20th of my size at the most, attacking my ankle. Grrr, get out of […]
It is easy to ignore religion. When you live in Britain, religion is often a quaint and backward set of clearly incorrect beliefs; or a scary thing belonging to other people. I’m not a student of theology, but some things are clear to me. I’m only really considering the idea of revealed religion. Religion which […]
On my way to work I walk past a primary school. Most days there is a group of women, often the same ones, standing talking outside the gate. Sometimes, one or two lollypop ladies are there too. On Tuesday last week, when I walked past, they where standing around the gate as usual, with a […]
Silence in a stadium of 1000s. A musically poor and lyrically devisive song. Billy Joel. Misty eyed player, children standing to attention, other hands on hearts. Cut to Iraq, soldiers in desert cam standing to attention. A cheer. A woman, a player? Signing for the deaf. Fighter pilot, on a big screen, trained to kill […]
Interchangable celebrity, consumer choice, we gun people down in Afganistan. It takes 100 men to dig a man from under the snow. We gun people down in Afganistan. On demand TV, and War Games, we run call centers in India. Black Gold and Asylum. Slavery is not skin deep. We dangle men from ropes in […]
Some days are harder than others, they can arrive on their own, or sometimes in clumps. Sometimes the cause is obvious, but other times it’s something that hasn’t changed for a long time, or something vauge that won’t quite come into focus. At the edges durring the fight not to go in, or to get […]
There are spoilers for the film American Dreamz ahead. Stop reading if you don’t want to read about the ending. I noticed a line in American Dreamz that I like a lot. It is durring a conversation between the US President (played by Dennis Quaid) and his Wife (Marcia Gay Harden). He tells her that […]
Death is an essential part of the process that created me. It is the mechanism which has created space for me to live in. Where my ancestors no longer are. The food I eat is more often that not dead (or soon will be), and the fuel I use often dead and fossilised wood or […]
I’m worried about how not being able to see the stars is affecting me. I’ve never lived anywhere that the stars were really visible. But I remember being able to see alot more of them when I was younger and further north. In London I can see hardly any, and even the ones I can […]