Beside the Sea

I spent this afternoon at a poetry workshop. It was my first for a long long time. The Cellar Art Centre, I think it is called, is quite a find in Worthing. A very cosy little corner. I shared some poems and was told to keep trying when it comes to getting published. I haven't done much on that front, but I wouldn't say I was disheartened. I managed to get out some copywriting, and I always have ideas for articles which I never seem to get around to. It is probably time I got around to some of them... I had this idea about writing lyrics for songs and maybe I will try my hand if I can find a group doing this. Music normally inspires my work so it makes sense. Since I had this realisation that I was pretty terrible at maths and far better with language, and have always been more or less like this, it has been easier to let go of doing things with my life like science or something. You can't do everything in life, and its perhaps only worthwhile following things which gi...

Since my reentry into the world of education, it has been tough keeping up with life and blogs and writing and any sort of artistry. It has been a crazy few months. Everything is in some sort of manic upheaval, and I am somewhere, kinda depressed in the middle. Change takes so much out of you, and there is so much I want to do, but I keep being distracted by life circumstances and holding things down. I moved out of Steyning to stop having to commute to work, and then I end up commuting to work. Swings and roundabouts. At least I get to travel through the city until I am in the middle of the greenery again. On the way, I usually listen to something by Joanna Macy and Deep Ecology in some attempt to regain my hope for this world and our lives upon it. It does help a little give some sort of perspective, and perhaps even direction and understanding of my own life. I also get to do a little photography which has been missing from my twitter since I left the country. Without the rolli...