From Darwin to Digital: A Revolution for our Species
Most of us are familiar with the graphic charting the progress of man,from ape to modernity (with variances on the present-day interpretation ranging from obese man to stressed office worker) but who would have predicted the rapidity of man’s digital evolution. With access to more and more articles documenting our digital history with trivia such as a 6 year...
Creative Writing as Therapy: The Gestalt Approach
Writing, like so many creative arts, is a discipline that needs constant attention and a variety of stimulus. Whatever you write, you need to consider its composition, its flow. You need to articulate its story with prose or poetry, using words as colour to activate imagination in the mind. There may be moments when the flow comes...
Getting Older & Embracing your Age
How do you react when you are posed with the question “How OLD are you?”… Do you wince, mumbling the wretched number under your breath? Perhaps you state it proudly, with the enquirer following it up with a welcomed “but you don’t look it!”. Or do you simply change the conversation, because you would rather...
The Gift of being Creative (& why you MUST liberate it)
Do you have a ‘rage to create’? I adapted this description from an article I recently read in regards to a ‘rage to master’ within us. I reference one story of a young boy and his incredible artistic abilities, combining colours and shapes on an obsessive level, working on each of his drawings for 1...
A Sense of Independence in Palawan
There is much to be said for a woman travelling alone in the world, in my case the Far Eastern side of the planet to the Philippines. As a demi-Filipina, one might assume I have a distinct advantage in navigating around the 7000+ island culture, versus the typical ‘tourist’ trip and indeed, I have visited...
Stoicism: The Key to Modern Day Living?
During the throes of modern life, it is easy to lose ourselves in our daily chores, occupations and moments of liberty. The demand for our time as we get older becomes ever more engrossed by what we are expected to do but these expectations are usually projected onto the situation itself. We fret, we become...
Judge Less, Connect More
Do you ever find it difficult to love other human beings? Not in a romantic sense, that would be a whole other subject matter to explore, more inclined for the therapists couch perhaps than my blog posts. I simply mean whether you encounter internal struggles to rationalise the actions of another individual, based on their...
A Week in the Dark: The 57th BFI London Film Festival
The nights draw closer and the official end of British summertime approaches, which times perfectly with the arrival of the BFI’s 57th London Film Festival. This time of year never fails to excite me, particularly with a programme that ever widens with a delicious celluloid chocolate box to pick and choose from. I proclaim myself...
The Emancipation of the EGO
During a conversation, do you often find yourself waiting to talk? In your last exchange of words, did you really absorb the speaker(s) stories or were you too eager to regale your own news? We all have different styles of engaging with others, none of which are necessarily with any intention of doing any disservice,...
Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain
There must be many moments we re-live, whether due to failure to learn from experience or the bittersweet nostalgia of familiarity. I raise this topic as it is one I notice within many people, including myself upon occasion (although I would also like to say a tad savvier now). We come to a standstill in...
The Need for Sexual Revolution
Sex: a subject historically known to raise hushes and cause blushes whether in regards to your orientation or the reproductive (although sometimes unproductive) function has had a shift. We live in a world where previously abhorred inclinations are now becoming increasingly socially acceptable and depending on where you live (in this case London) you are...
Gaining Inspiration at the Pop-Up Circus
Warning: please be aware there may be mention of dental pain in occasional descriptive detail. I may also spare you the information dear readers however it is one of the reasons I found inspiration for this latest article. Diminished creativity has been hindering my penmanship for some weeks and unlike the expected normality of scribing...