All posts for the month May, 2009

Snail

Sharing the lovely snail on this Sunday afternoon. © Rebecca Matheson

Type twitch

Geoff sent me the link to this xkcd cartoon and said he recognised me

Food is fertiliser (and a logo)

I have just completed my Design & Business class (That’s one down, yay!) it was not what I had expected, not quite what I was hoping for and a certainly scored a group with some peculiar dynamics… Our business plan wound around this idea of converting food scraps from restaurants into organic fertiliser: yes it [...]

Written Lives and why I’ll never be a writer of such high calibre

I just finished this book: Written lives thanks to Javier Marias. It is a collection of essays – short stories on 25+ (I didn’t count) key writers. I confess I haven’t read even close to all of them but it did feature surprising insights into those like Rilke and Oscar Wilde. The rest I am [...]

Pain

Deep hearts hollow and low Cradling within an emptiness a heaviness a gravity, a weight, the bottom echo hollow Giant marbles on a wooden floor banging together not sensible people holding hearts a pendulous echo God listening, just listening. Christina spoke this morning on Job 3 and about pain relating in particular to the apparent [...]