In recent years there’s been an attempt to brainwash anybody involved in haiku-writing with the idea that haiku is a ‘poem of consciousness’. The profound objection to this as a bald mantra is firstly, as RHBlyth points out, a haiku is NOT a poem in the ordinary sense of the word; the corollary of which […]
Being an entirely personal account of a weekend spent on a course run by Robert & Deborah Dilts and in the company of splendid people… Everything is relative. Motorbiked 170 miles in pouring rain & poor visibility… I was so wet & cold when I got to the posh hotel in Cheltenham on Thursday on […]
Early to rise… It’s 4 July 2003… Woke up this morning (4.15am) thinking, “Brackets!” Explosion of ideas got me up and at my desk in the hour before dawn which the Sufi says is an hour out of paradise.. Where did I get the notion of bracketing from? It’s long been part of my being. […]
A huge three-year project is all over bar the shouting. For the last four weeks, as things drew to a close, I’ve been lining up all the things I’ll be able to turn my attention to when I’d done with it. The very first thing on the list was to have a grand clearout of […]
Make a determined effort to capture it, right now! It’s a slippery customer, isn’t it? As soon as you shift your attention from this flow of words and begin to stretch out your hands (as it were) to capture whatever it might be wherever it is it eludes your grasp, doesn’t it? If you deny […]
So many different parts we play in life; yet at this moment now they all become focussed in this whatever it is that I call ‘I’. The ‘I’ that takes itself forward from this moment now into whatever activity it might have planned for the next minute, hour, day, week, month, year… Different time-scales define […]
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