I couldn’t keep my eyes open at midnight in San Antonio. We were going backwards and forwards, the engines were firing and not firing, but regardless, I knew we weren’t going to be arriving in Lafayette before 10 in the morning so I curled up to sleep in my double seat. I woke next about…
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While walking through Leeds city centre yesterday, something kept popping into my head. It was a question: "Is this what we want? is this really what people want our country, our cities our urban life to be like?" And even if it is, how would we know? And if it isn't then what can I…
If you want to gain trust in your profession, conversation is the best way to achieve it. Nowadays we do much more talking than we did in the past but we haven’t studied conversation. Talk is different from conversation. In the beginning, people were scared to talk, it was dangerous to say the wrong thing,…
Why is the idea of a journey important right now? How can we use the ideas about a journey to help us understand things that are changing or confusing or just too complicated in our everyday lives? That’s what I’m trying to do here. Although I enjoy travelling and telling stories about what happened,…
I realised today that I really like this sort of thing. Taking wallpaper off, removing layers of paint. I’m not that wild about the filling of cracks, sanding down and painting bits of decorating, but I love stripping away the old stuff. Sadly, the job I’ve got to do here this week only involves removing…