Making space for emergence means keeping watch for what you might encounter in what is left behind. You remove things, pass them over, discard or rearrange them. New configurations take time to become used to. Like new shoes, they can be uncomfortable at first. I have found that being aware of what might be changing,…

Murakami works as a writer because he captures in prose those fleeting things that place you at the scene. Suddenly the tantalising smell of grilling cheese in the air. I stop and inhale, the scent displacing me to winter afternoons making cheese on toast. I breathe and realise I am hungry.  The polytunnel smells faintly…

When I was discharged from my section 3 and subsequently left hospital I described what had happened during those 10 weeks as the start of a journey. I didn’t know what the destination would be. I didn’t realise then how unpredictable and demanding the travel would be too. I describe this post at the theoretical…

I started blogging in 2009 I think and continued on a different blog for another four years using a wordpress hosted platform. Back then, Facebook had only reached the masses for about eighteen months, maybe two years. Social media was a novelty, an unexploited paradise of consumption and audience participation that promised new and exciting…