Rain-shine. winters afternoon atop the cliffs, swoon yearning opalescence of the cloud kingdom above, a small boat below… the dark featheriness of a rain squall out on the ocean, yet also light swarms through a gap in the clouds, sparkle tantalises on the sea pleasantly yin and yang…. yeah, tho but a slightly duff phone pic… reminds me of Manley-Hopkins God’s Grandeur ‘It will flame out, like shining from shook foil’.. lines in which i can synaesthesia see the metallic rattle… gotta love the pomp of British Romanticism! Granular Universe, mottled of texture, all things arise, come into being, blossom, then fade… Swayambhunath, the amazing temple in Kathmandu, it’s name apparently means ‘Self Arisen’, a sacred flame lotus rising up out of the eternal lake these the slightly woolly mammoth muddled thoughts which help me sleep at night… best not to focus… totally gutted by the election result. obvs a rare and unexpected day of utter idleness… a spot of light dusting, followed by lolloping around in sloth and lassitude… what these days of darkness require… wishing ya all a genteel and mellow Sunday x
these the days of murk, thin winter gruel, the dwindling of light… mould, rot, cankour, muck … tho gotta love the rich loamy fungal reek of the woods sunk beneath autumn! the strident clarion of the morning alarm… summons only reluctance… why should I? much rather nestle down midst the palaver of duvet… world please bugger orf! heres me, up at mums, indulging the forlorn, in most best-est Romantic poet clobber, a jaunt down to the river mole… tho this autumn has been somewhat bereft, short on glorious sunshine, leaf scuffle days and yet, as always, what nary ever the season, fun to be glugged… yesterday i made it for singing, haven’t been in yonks, the usual exuberant shimmy and sway… coffee, vegan cake, friends, then ended up raving early, 7pm in the room up atop marwoods. boogie preposterous! fab! xx
had a lovely mellow saturday afternoon up in London for the xr stroll (march) along oxford street one of the best natured, most life endorsing demos i’ve been on… and there’s been a few down the years lots of dancing to the salsa band, a fair bit of the usual raucous chanting, yet spent most of the time singing (well tuneless frog croaking from me!) along with the choir… ‘u sim bonga’, amongst others, for the second time in 3 days well attended despite the near continual drizzle… even with my natty and practical clobber sogginess slime seeped through to the skin sadly my sole meager paltry contribution to this seasons hubbub, just been too busy with life stuff and even yesterday was somewhat bogged down with a snivel cold massive respect and gratitude to all the folk who have been up there all week can’t imagine how hard it must have been to keep morale up camping through the gruel of october storms… and the dedication to lock on and then be arrested… huzzah! doff my frog shower cap snuggle up warm as best you can… and be proud of your achievements apologies for the total lack of snaps… just a selfie from just after the event… hopefully you’ve seen all the groovy pics elsewhere?! i went up on my own, but, possibly not that suprisingly bumped into folk i know within 5 minutes, lovely to see so many faces from festivals there too… you beautiful people… i chatted just as much with strangers in the crowd, all ages, many types, a warm and nourishing collective energy field even got to wave a flag! somebody passed on to me halfway through the parade… i have a remarkable talent, weaving it around in a bee dance lemniscate infinity pattern whilst simultaneously grooving! my flag, weirdly said something like: ‘diligently attempt to mitigate the imbalances of power’… i tried to get it taken up as a chant, trips off the tongue! but nobody seemd that infused (enthused! we’re not tea bags) oh and my attire was a reprise of last years apple day, dads old barbour jacket and my frog shower cap… which i wore in the shower in the morning! and the Rose a woman came up and gave to me at the end of the day Anyway I think XR is Smashing! thank you… good luck guys with the next few days … and all together now: ‘DILIGENTLY ATTEMPT TO MITIGATE THE IMBALANCES OF POWER’ ra ra ra! x
oops in my concern to make my post ultra fluffy, neglected to make any sort of political comment whatsoever … and yes, tho it is presumably, stating the blooming obvious… it can only be a good thing to push this crucial issue up the agenda world is in crisis, we’ve known it for years, and yet my generation has blundered on in idiotic complacency if you burn all the majority of the stored up sunshine laid down over the millennia (fossil fuels) in little more than a 100 years, then, yes, there are bound to be ramifications there are so so many of us of course i am aware of my own hypocrisies, as a privileged citizen of one of the ‘wealthiest’ countries on earth, we are profoundly culpable and yet the burden of blame should be foisted on the banks, large corporations and politicians (apols if this is off message) i am sickened by the smugness of the conservative party (‘we’re doing so well’) whilst they individually pocket donations from the lobbies of the major polluters don’t even get me started on the arms industry things have to change, the whole system is broken… the obvious key areas are food production (local, organic, grown in regenerative systems) and transport waaghhh… anyway turning off comments as don’t have time for debate ** edit, ha, cept i have no idea how to do this!**… anyway … lets change things. now! x
Smudge Rainbow over the ocean. Bus glimpse heavy with engine vibrations… and Radiohead the bends in my headphones (not an easy or everyday listen, but powerful with yesterdays resonance). Languish in the beauty of the realm of ephemera.. as the irked squall of wind and rain hurtled shorewards a trio of rainbows danced along it’s forward crest… Words bird pecked out on phone… looking at the mighty restless sea before hopping on a bike… World has ALWAYS been alright when the rainbow comes x
erbal tea with eazy e! hip hop hurrah for the brand new memorial bench to the nwa rapper… its what he would have wanted dunno if he would have liked my de la soul t-shirt tho? ho chi minh, lord lucan and the man who broke the bank in monte carlo are the other local celebs commemorated, a peculiar eclectic blend
sigh, so mired in it, that it took me nearly a year to manifest a pun since i first concocted it! some subtle prompt is telling me to head left… swiftly cogs whirr slowly… first elderflowers garnered for tea (‘thank you grandmother elder’), honeysuckle and still some vibrant fresh young nettle-age neath the trees deeper shade! x
