Delusions of Divinity?Delusions of Divinity?Have a lurk on my spiritual journey. They are pragmatic, earthy and mystical musings or rants on life, love and the Big E Articles
My bath for the next few days?
2010-06-10 20:27:00 I think these two photos say it all really. But I did do some painting and I did do more trawling for my spiritual-in-art articles.*Less amusingly, mental constipation is externalising in body due to these flow interruptions.*Art is informed by the life we lead, by our thoughts, experiences and desires. My blog posts are either ... More About: Bath , Days
Strange day
2010-06-09 19:49:00 …of shared tech issues. Once again BT broadband disconnecting whenever it feels like though only for up to 15 minutes and not hours as before. The Twitter whale kept me company for over two hours and is still being a bit bloated. And the day started with a red warning for me personally from Google ... More About: Strange
Shocking pains
2010-06-08 18:47:00 …in left lower back/GM returned with a vengeance several times last night, causing awful lack of sleep. Still feeling drained and tired as I had to get up to take in the car. (Dent due to prat youth in car park.) There is much to do but I am finding it difficult to concentrate on ...
Manifesting
2010-06-07 20:28:00 …is invariably easy to accomplish, as I have written before, when the light first beams on one. Most happy recipients of this mystical experience feel an urgent need to write and evangelise, with the added incentive of those early easy manifestations. So where, when and how does it then become such an uphill struggle? With Profit ...
2am loo break
2010-06-04 21:39:00 ..is hugely unusual for me ? made worse by a longer journey downstairs. Brain sufficiently engaged to put the hall light on and not the loo light. The fan noise would have dragged on for most of the rest of the night, making sleep a further challenge ? though not impossible. Anyway, that lack of sleep ... More About: Break
Optimism
2010-06-02 21:54:00 …for a better world has nose-dived over the last few days, though not personally (well not much). Israel knows how to upset her friends. Aggression post-Holocaust was once understandable, but needs now to be more balanced. Sadly, I don?t think they want to listen. Thumping back is almost acceptable but never killing. That ends this ...
Cannibal birds
2010-05-29 22:09:00 ..have quite depressed me. All was well with the eggs first thing this morning. Both parents were around and all seemed happy. I planned to cut down another branch to protect them from the rain but went out shopping. When I came back, I decided to put their interests before having breakfast ? then discovered the ... More About: Birds
Money matters
2010-05-28 21:33:00 ? especially when the unexpected happens. Like the idiotic youth jumping from one side to the other of the exit in the Brighton car park yesterday. Swerving to avoid him, I scraped the side of my car, which is going to cost me around £400. My insurance excess is £275 so it?s probably better ... More About: Money
Minimalism
2010-05-26 21:01:00 … is something I will never manage thanks to all the books I own (I have a desire to one day open a niche specific reading room or private library ? or perhaps leave it as a memorial for when I pop off this dimension), but hoarding is something I try to avoid. An article ...
Laissez faire
2010-05-23 21:29:00 …and garden metaphysics again means death and life of green sentients, but unfortunately the wrong way round. One of the hyacinths and the forsythia have given up the ghost, but the Zen part of the garden is almost completely covered in grasses and other kinds of weeds ? and in just a month or so. ...
Mental illness
2010-05-20 17:33:00 .., despite Ma?s passing, is never far from my life, it seems. If I distance myself from someone, it is usually as much for their sake as mine, especially if the reason was a misrepresentation of facts. So, when one such friend was sectioned again, I said a prayer and left it at that. Yesterday, I ... More About: Mental , Mental Illness
High creative skills
2010-05-18 21:37:00 …are more common in those with mental illness in the family, it seems. I?m going to take that positively. Pity my creative output has been so low this week. I seem to be too tired to do more than arrange and re-arrange my list of things to do, or practice in my head. There again, ... More About: Creative , High , Skills
Art paraphernalia,
2010-05-17 20:37:00 …pencils in jars, stained palettes, neat rows of inks, canvases stacked, ready for splodges of colour, boxes of drawing and watercolour papers … how I used to love just feasting my eyes on the pleasures to come. Till yesterday. I?ve given away expensive soft pastels and oils before as they were too unpleasant to use. ...
Dreamed of
2010-05-14 20:16:00 … naked politicians, specifically the new Cabinet, with Vince Cable in front. Even with the dream framed to show only the tops of the bodies, it was not pleasant viewing. I have obviously been spending too much time on politics recently! Meanwhile, mine closures, as mentioned before, still polarise political emotions. There have been several happy ...
Exhaustion
2010-05-13 21:52:00 … yesterday didn?t mean immediate slumber last night. So many things troubling me. On the plus side, despite writing nothing down, within two hours of waking, I had acted on every single one of them, almost without realising it. One of the actions was to organise a quote for replacing the bathroom in the continuing absence ...
We have a new Prime Minister
2010-05-12 00:13:00 … but only after a couple of days of cranking up the tension! The new politics, by accident rather than design, is a coalition ? and it will probably need that LibDem flavour to share the pain of some tough decisions to come. There are a lot of sour grapes in Twitter and Etherland which is ... More About: Prime Minister
Art stewarding
2010-05-10 20:36:00 …has been a good learning experience for me, though struggling to keep warm (again) was not much fun. From not very scientific observation, it seems hanging at eye level attracts more attention, so framed artwork is a must. People did use the browsers and several unframed works sold though, again unscientifically, they seemed to be works ...
A hung parliament
2010-05-08 20:28:00 …, partisan politics despite the need to put the country first… and some digs and insults about my political views including a sideswipe about positive thinking*. But what exactly are my political views? (*Regular readers of this blog or of any of my books will know I advocate pragmatic thinking allied with opening the mind ...
?Thousands of jobs created which were not needed?.
2010-05-06 20:45:00 That sounds like our bloated public sector, but actually it was a Channel 4 newsclip about Greece and why it is in such a parlous state. One can only pray that British voters choose a party that will sort out our economy however personally difficult that choice might be for them, otherwise we will be ... More About: Jobs
Doomy programme overload
2010-05-04 20:29:00 … must have contributed to a crap night?s sleep. All day, my eyes have been sore, not helped by my personal weather vane: my skin. It now seems to dry out in varying degrees when it?s about to turn really cold, so I had sore, tired eyes, and dry, sore eyelids for much of the ...
Paradox
2010-04-30 23:57:00 ? or maybe not. During the Thatcher years there was struggle for a lot of people. I well recall standing outside shop after shop, plucking up the courage to go in and ask for an order (I was a commission-only salesperson) and being asked to pitch in front of various customers. Sometimes, I?d feel ...
The last time
2010-04-29 19:27:00 … I genuinely suffered racism, the kind that nightly reduced me to tears, was on holiday in Krakow, in 2003. It is not a memory I particularly want to recall, but the Gillian Duffy incident brought it back: what some people call bigoted views. As far as I was concerned, far too many people, at ... More About: Time
Depression is
2010-04-28 20:24:00 … in the news a lot. Unsurprising, really. Before sleeping (and pre-meditation!), I have a mental trawl through the day?s events and often wonder if I am depressed. Spiritually, I have always felt earthbound on sufferance, even when my life is rich on every level. But, going by key indicators, I am apparently not actually depressed ... More About: Depression
In Thatcher?s Britain
2010-04-27 20:01:00 …I genuinely felt comfortable booking in and staying at hotels all over the country. And I certainly did enough of it during my IT sales career. Now, in all honesty, over the last few years, I have felt a growing wariness at speaking with an RP accent to book a room, and then turning up ... More About: Britain , Thatcher
When I die,
2010-04-25 15:39:00 …I won?t need to have scenes from my life rushing past my eyes. That happens whenever I take a long car journey! This particular journey was to Shrewsbury (home of Darwin and Cadfael) … and the Cartoon Festival. And most enjoyable it was too. I finally got to meet quite a few who I have chatted ...
Is it fair
2010-04-22 18:57:00 … that an airline should fork out for accommodation, travel, telephone, food and other expenses, if the traveller only paid around £20 for the flight, ?Act of God? notwithstanding? Yet that is the current EU regulation which seems to have been forced on all EU carriers, no matter what their size? I expect Ryanair won?t be ... More About: Fair
There?s been a reason for deserted airports,
2010-04-21 21:30:00 …but rush hour trains? It felt quite spooky to be travelling on an almost empty 12-coach train yesterday, so that was my over-riding impression despite a promising day at the London Book Fair. In fact, I would have stayed longer had the torn ligament in my foot not started up again. And that is despite ... More About: Airports , Reason
Laid low by a wellie!
2010-04-17 21:33:00 Having cleared and sorted the garage ? now filled with boxes which are filled with rubbish, and empty boxes ready to be filled with whatever else ? I had a cup of coffee and then started on weeding the front garden. By weeding, I mean using weedkiller, which seems to only bump them off temporarily. Once ...
debate overload
2010-04-15 23:50:00 Most of the day has been spent doing things I really dislike ? like uploading art to the gallery. It invariably takes three times longer than planned. Maybe that?s why the ?great debate? seems a bit damp squibb-ish, so far. Pausing between uploads, I made the mistake of responding to a tweet about celibacy. I know ... More About: Debate
stinking policies
More articles from this author:2010-04-13 23:40:00 It?s always astonished me how those, most vocal in favour of freedoms of various sorts, are also strident supporters of a party that maintains a policy of micro-management - which, as you know, I truly loathe. And I also cannot fathom why some people deliberately misinterpret statements, although I do recognise my own ability to take ... More About: Policies 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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