This week, I’ve finished reading Dougald’s excellent book. (also on Audible, read by the author). I don’t really do book reviews – this is more some initial notes after reading. The book’s subtitle is “Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies” so yeah, “all the *other*…
So first, here it is, the thing I was talking about yesterday: But I feel I should say something more about it than “here it is”. Perhaps where it came from, how it came to be. And as usual where to start that story is hard to pin down. In terms of writing the words,…
I’m doing something unusual for me tomorrow. I’m releasing some musical recordings that I’ve been working on since the beginning of November. The main oddity in all of that is that I gave myself a release date ahead of time and have finished the work a couple of days ahead of it. My custom has…
The crafting of an Open Space invitation will be iterative. I like to have an overarching single question as the title of the event. How broad it is does depend on the subject and also how big the gathering is – invitations stumble when their scope is too wide or abstract or else too narrowly…
Back, because #fediverse and because #music
David Lynch talks about ideas as fish. He says if you sit still and wait and are open to catching one, they’ll just pop into your consciousness, so you right them down and then others come and join it and you write them down too and then you can express them in whatever way seems…
One of the things they tried to instill in us at drama school was the idea that if you’re going to be someone who creates through performance or just your presence in the world, some exercise first thing is really good for you. This was too hard a pill for me to swallow even when…
I’ll be opening space, as part of my work with Guildford United Reformed Church, on 14th May, for the question: “What are we going to do to nurture and nourish the spirit of Community in Guildford?” There’s a booking page with the full invitation, but here’s a little video version I did: I’ve called it…
It was good to give myself a break over the weekend even if it means I’m thinking about trivial things like day numbering… Having chosen this topic, it was easier for me to tidy up the most immediate stuff around my desk, making a “Tony” box and putting everything else away. But that did also…
Today was a thinking day. Starting a new project. Well, choosing a new project first of all. Last weekend I went through the cards I’ve been using for the last 28 days and wrote down what project idea I had for each of them. Just the first thing off the top of my head. Today…