Thursday, September 30, 2004good news momentA brief post of my good news. After handing in an assignment 6 months ago my lecturer finally marked it and I am now officially, irrefutably and unconquerably a qualified Neuro-Linguistic Programmer! Sign in to see full entry.a diverse smorgasbord of mental paraphenaliaAt the moment my thinking is populated with the presence of the Jordanian Princess, a biography of the Australian artist Albert Tucker, the rather dark fictional character that I’m slowly developing in my blog MURDEROUS INTENT, the implications of this rain-splattered grey of this Sydney day, an... Sign in to see full entry.Wednesday, September 29, 2004the subtle art of building a fireOver the past twelve months I’ve been going through a fairly radical re-appraisal of myself. I’ve spent most of the years of my adult life understanding myself and life in general in terms of passion: frustrated passion, liberated passion, physical passion, metaphysical passion, consummated passion.... Sign in to see full entry.Tuesday, September 28, 2004My MotherMy mother has emphysema. She’s had it for years. It’s slowly spread through her lungs until she’s reached a point of being on oxygen day and night. She is tiny and fragile now and subject to the side effects of never ending combinations of medication. My mother has a remarkable will to live even as... Sign in to see full entry.Monday, September 27, 2004glimpsing mysteryIt’s half way through the morning. I’m drinking mediocre coffee, just polished off a packet of M&Ms and still I’m hungry. Chocolate has always been my chosen anaesthetic when it comes to this job. Sugar fingers its way through my neurology and I'm happy in a daze and indifferent to the... Sign in to see full entry.Sunday, September 26, 2004the consolation of turning pagesAt the moment there are a number of diverse matters that I want to blog about but I shall exercise some discipline and focus on one thing for now: the future form of fiction. Now I’m personally an old fashioned bibliophile. I love the physicality of books, the weight, the musty smell, the promise of... Sign in to see full entry.Saturday, September 25, 2004kick the ball to meI admit this weekend has been a rather distracted one. Regardless of what the blogit date and time says I am, in reality, writing this at 11am on Sunday morning. I confess I spent yesterday indulging my need to be an aussie bloke. Grand Final Day in Australian Rules Football. If you are unfamiliar... Sign in to see full entry.Thursday, September 23, 2004Buddha, Harry the Clown and MemoryI often think about the unexpected circumstances that don’t fit into a chain of cause and effect (at least not in an obvious way). At the base of my computer I have a row of six rotund and highly enlightened Buddhas. I am not an expert in Buddhism though I did once have an article published in a... Sign in to see full entry.Wednesday, September 22, 2004world wide and self-exposedAm I becoming some kind of text-on-a-computer-screen flasher? As I begin to punch the keys and make words dance on the screen I’m exposing myself. Flash! Here’s a dangling instance of my emotional life! Flash! Here’s a slice of naked past history! Flash! Here I am taking a blog! Flash! And here I am... Sign in to see full entry.Tuesday, September 21, 2004celebrate the detailsI spent a couple of years studying neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and it’s an area of study that I recommend particularly in the area of writing. I found NLP helped me articulate the sensory details of experience: what is sensed, how it’s sensed and the detailed responses of the body.... Sign in to see full entry. |
