This from my home street, and for more of my writings, check my Substack. …Oh what a beautiful morning. There’s a soft peachy glaze skimming brick work, There’s a warm orange haze in the air, The road is as long as a snakes tasting tongue, And it carries the folk up to where we belong… […]
How do I write about the experience of having been a boy, a man and now an elder? Seriously? Flippantly? With what intention of what outcome? Be gentle? Be harsh? Be honest? Any and /or all of these things maybe? Or, with an aim for a perspective that is based around the understanding that the
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Books that had an impact on me before I had read them would have to include Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. An English teacher recomended it to me when I was around 15 years old, and it had a big impact upon how I understood myself and what I could allow myself to
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Rainbow of Desire Lab offer monthly sessions working with the principles of Theatre of The Oppressed and the methodology of the Rainbow of Desire. This describes their last workshop in February.The WorkshopPermission to Act is a 4 hour applied theatre workshop grounded in Augusto Boal’s Rainbow of Desires methodology. It creates space to identify cops
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This is a piece I wrote a little while back.Click the highlighted Title to see my Substack. The Left Behind ChildInspired by The Pied piper of Hamelin (1842)By Emma Surtees Something about the way I’m caught betweenYoung and Old And how I’m not wired like the rest So I’m told Plants me somewhere in a
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This morning I watched a YouTube video hosted by two friends of mine. They had invited a Taoist internal martial arts teacher to join them and she shared her understanding of Tao and this Chinese new year, February 2026, the year of the fire horse. Rather than try to put into words how that conversation
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I sometimes live in this imagined community, this imagined space, this fictional city in my head. It’s an escape from the reality I see around me, around us, which is dark and exhausting. Also a focus on what needs to be done to change that, as in, where might we go now, for real? My
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I am an addict. I struggle to resist buying stuff. When I buy something I get a sense of relief and satisfaction. Not always from the thing I have bought, but from something around… I deserve to treat myself to something that is not a necessity, and that somehow gives me a sense of being
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As I added the title above I was aware that for some people the word heaven might have all sorts of implications. And I get that, so, for those of us who might struggle with this title, here is an alt option that feels equally effective for me, and, maybe, for you. Alt title;The ground
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Bridges, handy or not handy? A story from somewhere in my past. There seem to have been bridges in all the places I lived. Maybe that is true for all or nearly all the settlements here in the lands that hold me, often known as the united kingdom. Would a more appropriate name be possible?
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