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This is from A on a napkin from Pret. I ate the hot meatball wrap and yoghurt pot.

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In the Cross Country from Newcastle to Glasgow Central , returning after a  warming almost-week tangled in the arms and dreams of “A”.
A lot of dirty laundry is waiting for me in Glasgow
it means there’s a home waiting for me there
a table with a view- even though it’s made of moss and stains the paper [...]

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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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Sharing the Magic

I’m just back home after a while of travel and as always, travelling opens me up and expands my mind in a new way. A little bit of travelling whether to another city, a continent halfway across the globe, my own city, even just in my mind bends my mind in ways nothing else can. [...]

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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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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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Hello Goodbye

For September 13th 2007
  
I’m leaving for London tomorrow. After 5 months at home. And after 21 years of living in a subcontinent that’s full and rich and intimate and noisy and smelly in a way that no other continent can be. I’m both hopeful and nervous. London, Birmingham, Glasgow…these have been vacation homes for years [...]

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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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Today has been painful. And sad. I wrote with tears dripping on either side on the page, and on my bare hands, and all over my track pants. I have written in anger and in emotion. Today has bled, the blood of old, still raw inside wounds. These will bleed slowly for weeks now until [...]

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