for 4 days last month i turned my phone off, left it at home and lived as usual. but life felt different. like a reminder that life is worth celebrating even without having to constantly send a text, a photomessage, or call to say this is what i saw, this is what i heard, this [...]

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Smile at the sky

STOP
what you are doing and slow down for a minute.
Put down the mobile phone, stop the power walk; shift into a slow, comfortable amble and a deep, long breath.
Tilt your face away from the book, the screen, the floor and throw your head back to face the sky.
Look at its enormous blue. Grey. Black. Twinkle. [...]

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SHARE THE LOVE

There’s not a Shakespeare sonnet
Or a Beethoven quartet
That’s easier to like than you
Or harder to forget.
 
You think that sounds extravagant?
I haven’t finished yet-
I like you more than I would like
To have a cigarette.
Giving Up Smoking, Wendy Cope
 
Share the love. Give someone a poem. Give up smoking.
So it’s a new year- this is always a [...]

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The Glasgow Manifesto

The drive for a better, kinder, more adventurously lived life has begun again. I want to allow my life all the richness and experience it was born to see, do, receive, give. I’m in Glasgow starting a year of newness and experience. What do I want to do, what do I hope of this year [...]

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YES TO GIGGLES

I haven’t said YES in 5 days.
So today I’ll say it. I’ll do the things that I long to do and face the things I long to face.
I want to say yes to class from 8am to 6pm
Yes to looking out of my window at the stars when I should really go to bed and [...]

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EVOCATIVE

 
The view from my room
 
My room
Glasgow is slowly growing on me.
 My journal, my world, my self are slowly changing, evolving, growing wings. I’m starting to see the city in terms of colours and curves and mood and sky; starting to see the joy of anonimity in a new place so I can park my self [...]

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Brave in Glasgow

Its been 3 weeks! Atleast.

So this is a ‘wee’ part of central Glasgow. The only part I know enough to draw.
Its been warming to read all your comments and kindness so this post is for you. Its not a post. Just an acknoledgement and a HII. Like a little catch up post. Full post next [...]

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Body Talk

 
 
Last night at the party there was a girl. Young. At the threshold. Almost blooming. Still shy and unsure. She wore a gorgeous sari (first time) and left her luscious hair (everybody was talking about her hair!) loose. She looked unsure but very very pretty. She’s normally in nothing fancier than shorts and a heavy [...]

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Ex.ot.ic (eg.zat.ik) a.introduced from a foreign country; not indigenous; unusual or colourful.
  
For some, the exotic is India. Its Portugal for others. The rich Orient full of myths and stories for yet another.
  
The “exotic” has come to stand for the richly stimulating; it is associated with a sense of far away, hard to reach ideals. Ideals [...]

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The Leap Into Luxury

Spontaneous Writing Booths Do not feel left out when you school, Zen Centre,church has a carnival, bazaar, rummage sale. Simply set up a spontaneous writing booth. All you need is a pile of blank paper, some fast writing pens, a table, a chair, and a sign saying “Writing on Demand”. They choose the topic and you [...]

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