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THE PREMATURE BLOSSOM
On the run again. Rubber slapping concrete, accumulating into the blood-filled blister on my big toe which reminds me that I can’t outrun myself. Blossoms in February. A mild winter. Yellow warnings of rain. Yellow buds bursting out of the grass in crop circles. Portents of some message I cannot decipher. Charging past it all…
David Fincher’s ‘The Killer’; So Good it’s Almost Boring
‘Purely logistical, narrowly focussed by design’ I used to go to dance classes as a teenager and occasionally entered into local festivals competing against other dance schools. Sitting on plastic chairs, clutching polystyrene cups of tea in my costume and make-up, waiting nervously for my turn to go up on stage, I would watch the…
Fitbit Anxiety
How my smart watch triggered my anxiety nightmare Knowledge is power Is it more true that knowledge is power, or that ignorance is bliss? It’s now taken as a given that the hallmark of a progressive, modern civilization is the unstoppable acquisition of information. The more we know, the more certainty we can have about…
The Jaded Optimist 