i went there once

i visited these places :-)

i think i'd prefer to have a map with pins in as its a bit less empire-conquering like ...
but then as izzard teaches us...it was all about sticking flags in the ground first anyway so maybe colouring in is better after all!



create your own visited countries map

slowcore mmmm

3hive.

... this website has legal free music downloads ... Stafraenn Hakon - in the footsteps of sigur ros ...

Endurance over

Lent...
Desert....
... Remember that you are dust...

The first week has past and I'm not very good at reaching the desert,
though I strangely long to...

and then I realise I comprehend little about what next ... is it really an endurance test?

I found Maggi Dawn's Lent articles freeing and i feel i might befriend lent again...

... focus shifting... coffee on sunday... social justice re-crosses my screen

... the desert waits ...

The desert waits
ready for those who come,
who come obedient to the Spirit’s leading;
or who are driven,
because they will not come any other way.
The desert always waits,
ready to let us know who we are –
the place of self-discovery.
And whilst we fear, and rightly,
the loneliness and emptiness and harshness,
we forget the angels
whom we cannot see for our blindness,
but who come when God decides
that we need their help;
when we are ready
for what they can give us.

Ruth Burgess

words

I was astounded by talent on Tuesday night at an International Poetry slam. - incredible, performance poetry that is hard to describe but it left you lost for words - not lacking words but no words sufficed to say WOW. My partcular favourite was Queen Sheba - "poetry does not belong to you".... or maybe it was the duet from the Vancouver team and the line that stayed with me.... "we say lets just be friends as if somehow that was a dead end?"

So I'm thinking of the power of the spoken word,
storytelling,
how creative communication gifts us so much more than the content of the words themselves.
And via a discussion about confession of sins I got to realising that words not only open up and unfurl and express, they alson nail down and set boundaries round things.
My friend sent me an interesting article about athlete and confession of faith - what that can look and sound like ... the precious heart of doing it ... athlete article

communcation... such a textbook word for a beautiful thing...

curvy

So it seems that with this technology you can only write in straight lines... with one thing following another... like the thoughts really do link consecutively and are orderly and in formation.

Wheras sometimes a true representation would need curves and twists
Bits you'd need a mirror for.....
And there'd be pauses.... .... .... and fastbitswithoutroomtobreathe;
.... and you'd see that some of the joins are diagonal not single-file.

But instead its funnelled into these lines ... Thoughts made to be beside each other
And underneath each other

So I'll work with that...
... for now...

Bear with me