So, when I said in my previous update post that I’d kicked my depression, I wasn’t exactly lying, but there’s more to the story than that. It’s more like the depression is mostly under control but I am prone to occasional spikes, such as the one I’ve been having for the last couple of days. [...]

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Filed under: God and stuff

I caught the train today. Six trains, in fact. The thing I love most about catching public transport is the solitary, dedicated reading time it gives you. When I haven’t been on the bus or train for a week I start to get itchy because it means I haven’t had a good reading stint during [...]

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Filed under: God and stuff

This morning I had a moment on the train. I thought I was going to come home this evening and write about it. But, as it happens, I ending up having two moments today, the second one when I was sitting in the grass at Hyde Park. By ‘moment’ I mean that feeling of clarity [...]

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Filed under: God and stuff

Imagine music that brings you to excruciating crescendos as your whole body tenses up, waiting breathlessly for the next note. Now imagine images that unfurl themselves bit by bit, like a lotus slowly opening itself up to reveal the key to all humanity. Throw these in with the voice of a haunting Goddess and you [...]

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Filed under: Art, God and stuff, Inspiration

So I’m seeing a careers counsellor at the moment, having taken a redundancy and all. And Kerry is just wonderful – but more on that later. One of the first exercises she had me do, after our initial chat, was to sort through 76 values cards, and rank them from ‘aways important at work’ to [...]

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Filed under: God and stuff, My brand new writing career