Island Blog 142 Back to the Sea
I have come to a conclusion. One I might have come to long ago but didn’t, not least because I couldn’t really explain it, should anyone ask for my ‘workings’. Workings are what art teachers demand...
View ArticleIsland Blog 147 If Not Now
Today is Halloween and I already have a witch or two in my head, and if crossed, in my mouth. Not a really bad witch, but one of those ones that knows her power and won’t take any messing. I like...
View ArticleIsland Blog 153 On Good Men and Unicorns
I have heard said, that good men are like unicorns. Everyone talks about them but nobody ever sees one. To compare a man with a unicorn, is, indeed, a strange thing to be sure. Unicorns may be...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Keep the Girl – Write the Woman
I watch the little bus round the sea-loch from the warmth of my conservatory. This bus looks warm, cosy even, all lit up like a party, although I know that inside there will be a smattering of grumpy...
View ArticleIsland Blog – I and the Ghost
There is one in my system. A ghost. I know it is there, can feel it, smell it. Sometimes it is a catch of earthen mulch, autumny, wet and visual, sharp with the glint of long buried crystals, and...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Taking the Biscuit
My album is out. Who would have thought it? Edge of the Wild is a compilation of my own songs, worked into magic by my musician/music producer friends at Wild Biscuit (www.wildbiscuit.com) who came up...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Woman, She Says
There is an old woman I know. She is not very old but she is definitely no longer new. She can feel it in her bones and her mind. Those arms that once could heft potato sacks from ground control to the...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Ebb and Flow, Days of Minutes
This life without himself can feel like a loss even thought he was (often) a pain in the ass. As, I imagine, was I. The days are minutes to be filled, and I am advised thus:- to write my list of things...
View ArticleIsland Blog – A Glorious Freedom
I set myself a challenge. This day I will not say a single negative word about a single soul, and, if a negative thought comes in about any said soul, I will picture them happy, laughing, safe,...
View ArticleIsland Blog – I am Woman
I am woman, my own woman, and yet all women. I have been broken more times than could be repaired, had I been born a teacup. I am soft as down and hard as stone. I have loved with all my beating heart...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Grace of an Otter
Life comes and goes in waves. That’s what I think, but as I think the think, I wonder what I mean by that. Life, by definition, as long as I am alive, is a constant. More a line than a wave, like a...
View ArticleIsland Blog- Balance
I realise something and every something is something. For over a year I have been completely involved with myself and my situation. Although it is understandable, it is also, at times, questionable. I...
View ArticleIsland Blog – About the Real
I walk into another evening alone. Oh yes I did have a great friend staying and other friends here making music, yes I did. And then they all go back into their shared lives. And I am so thankful they...
View ArticleIsland Blog – A 3 Frock Day
The wind is up and my wheelies are dancing. Only yesterday I freed them from their storm restraint, a rope affixed around their bellies and secured to my fence with chandler’s hook thingies that would...
View ArticleIsland Blog – I Can Do This
Having my young and strong bodied children with me for a few days shows me my age, not that I have any problem with ageing for it is a very natural part of the living process. Nonetheless, my...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Nowhere to go but Here
I am gradually learning the art of engaging fully with the day. Yesterday is gone and we all know tomorrow never comes no matter how fast we run. I suspect this engaging thingy may be age-related. It...
View ArticleIsland Blog – A Feisty Queen
Waking after a good sleep to the moon, huge and bright, her mountains shadowy. She isn’t full yet but will be tonight. So long we island folk have missed sight of her, clouded thick and rained off as...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Wordage, Fun and Mischief
I am noticing the words that leap from my mouth sans aforethought. What I am recognising is that we women seem to feel that details are always needed, descriptions the concise and careful...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Dreams
We all have them, dreams, the night ones, disconnected to morning sensibilities, the ones in which we fly with Pan or save a child or fall off a cliff or battle with rats. I have had them all. Then...
View ArticleIsland Blog – Olding, Big Pants and So What
Blimey, life in the city is crazy! I watch the people go by, push by, wander by heading for a collision either with a lamppost or me, busy as they are in multiple worlds, connected to a mobile phone....
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