If I’d ever imagined the passing of my beloved dad, it would never have been like this. He deserved better. It wasn’t so much set against a backdrop of a pandemic, it was saturated in it. A new surreality. Face coverings and obsessive hand cleansing. Human behaviour restricted and modified to become un-humanlike. A separation from […]
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THE ENDFAVOUR
He sat upright, one leg tucked under, an awkward L from above. He was sifting through a box of memories. Photos, scraps of paper, some trinkets and oddities too. He dipped his hand in, rummaging, clutching. Hoping for a spark. An ignition through his grey matter. A burst of colour, a flash of image to […]
I wrote this February 2019, fourteen months later the world is in a state of pause. I wonder which direction we will take next collectively and singularly. The ‘mainstream’ of the human populous seems to be hurtling along. Does anyone consider its speed or course? Collectively or singularly It does not seem to be in […]
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Passing storms
an excerpt from my notebook dated 12/2019. “Not knowing what to do – not knowing what might happen next. I felt fear for my family.” I think it is 2050, can’t be sure, my mind is a more fuzzy these days. Anyway, I’ve decided to ‘put pen to paper’ (as my mum would often say) after […]
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When Fear is off the leash
Last year I wrote about Death. This year I’m writing about Fear. Death and Fear are both topics often locked away from discussion, this is my personal experience of Fear that took place over the later half of 2019. I had one of those NHS health checks specifically for reaching 40 – it made me consider […]
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Let’s talk about the reaper
Autumn makes me think about death. Maybe it’s the changes in nature; the colder darker nights, the leaves changing colour. Certainly for me, the anniversary of the death of my close friend Andy on November 4th makes me think about death more. Whilst thinking about death, I thought how we don’t really talk about it […]