On my personal learning journey I came about Walter Isaacson’s biography of one of the greatest lifelong learners of all time: Leonardo Da Vinci.
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How to get writing done when you don’t have time
Many aspiring writers say they would write if they had time. But is the lack of time the real issue? We live in the culture of busy, all we want is to do, do, do. How much of this doing is really important though? If we were to observe for one week where our attention…
Get the bad words out
“I think mistakes may be the most important thing for a young writer.” – Neil Gaiman I wrote the poem below a couple of years ago, shortly after I bought my typewriter. What I did was this: I gave myself some random words and then I incorporated them in a poem. The result is bad,…
Useful exercices from Julia Cameron’s The right to write
I found this book at my local library and it proved to be a happy find. I’ve previously read only one other book of hers – The Artist’s Way – and did her Morning pages exercice every day, for a year. The exercice asks that each morning, right after waking up, to write three longhand…
One thing to try when writing gets intimidating
As a starting writer it can be really easy to get discouraged. Let’s say you started working on a novel or a short story. One day you wake up and as you sit down to write you realise the amount of work you have to do is so big it overwhelms you. As if that…
A visit at the Museum of Intimacy
“Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.” – Brene Brown Intimacy is everywhere. Where is yours? This is the invitation you receive as you take your first steps inside the Museum of intimacy – a collection of vulnerable memories and thoughts on intimacy curated…
Art as a way of centering oneself – Interview with artist Ioana Lupașcu
Short profile Ioana Lupașcu is a multi disciplinary artist with a background in architecture. She moved to London after finishing university and she’s been working with various mediums and formats ever since. Among her projects I want to mention her beautiful contribution to Walala x Play, a labyrinthine network of corridors and enclosed spaces built…
Shoujaa the strange, episode 4
Fourth episode from Shoujaa the strange. Ideally to be read chronologically. Shoujaa the strange, episode 1 Shoujaa the strange, episode 2 Shoujaa the strange, episode 3 Days came and days passed as they used to before bringing nothing but silence to Shoujaa’s love call. And then, one night, Fred came at his feet purring and…
Shoujaa the strange, episode 3
Third episode from Shoujaa the strange. Ideally to be read chronologically. Shoujaa the strange, episode 1 Shoujaa the strange, episode 2 Trisk, trisk sang Olivia’s feet as she travelled the planet they now know as Stith. Once vibrant and green, trees kissing the sky, now gloomy and weak like a woeful goodbye. But for the…
Shoujaa the strange, Episode 2
Second episode from Shoujaa the strange. Read the first episode. Tossing and turning, Shoujaa could not rest an eye for thoughts of the past day kept picking his mind. Capsules or rockets with words up in the sky, none of the options that he had outlined felt right to express what he felt inside. Along…