human stuff

'psychologically, women are forced to look at the world through men's eyes, I wanted to put the other point of view: what it felt like to be a woman expressing yourself, being free, doing your human stuff in what is a pretty patriarchal society' Jane Campion

Claudia Rankine: How Art Teaches a Poet to See

word collecting

today, yesterday and the day before: upkeep soliloquy enchanting abstemious preside testimony

mindjournals.com

I read about this project by Ollie Aplin recently, really important work, this article is in his blog: Stormzy talks about his depression

letters

http://letterslive.com/about/

Thanks Mark!

"artist Maria Amidu needed a clean layout which reflected her eye on the world and could display her work without distraction. Over a number of months we worked on her gallery of incredible work and utilised the great backend system, Divi Builder, to allow an easy way for her to update the site herself"

how guilt is productive

ladders

OMG so many ladder scenes I keep missing on my train journeys, short of pulling the emergency cord I have to let them whizz by...

word collecting

yesterday: congregation granularthe day before: implausible

'lateralness'

A Little Lateral Thinking fifty years ago, Edward de Bono coined the term "lateral thinking"  

adaptation

The Reith Lectures, Hilary Mantel, Adaptation'pick a path through the facts to meaning... the hardest thing to do on the page is something that happens suddenly'

Lorna Goodison

Poem of the week: Signals from a the Simple Life by Lorna Goodison

word collecting

today: recall

instead

shall we have a go at using and instead of but...

"a care leaver for life"

word collecting

last week: cobalt congeniality transparent

congruent

what is on the outside needs to match what is on the inside 

word collecting

yesterday: whatnot coded fusedlast friday: perch declare free-falling endorse

not

what you see is not always what you get

art

Wow! Listening to Sonia Boyce on BBC Radio 4 talking about the fact that Black Art Matters