• Musings & Thoughts

    Musings from a Mountaintop

         Here, the world is different. Different to the world below, a world of buildings and traffic and technology. A world of noise and pollution, violence and chaos. Here, the world is quiet. The world is ancient and unchanged.…

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    Musings from the Beach Front

         The air positively thrums with noise. Every sound coming from every direction. The faint summery music filtering through distant speakers. The soft slapping of a million pairs of flip flops on the paved pathway. The whirring and grinding…

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    Musings from the Pier

         The ocean stretches out to meet the sky, an infinite wash of blue, interrupted only by the dark vessels drifting along the horizon line. The sky is dirty grey, dreary and still, uninspiring, save for the tinges of…

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    Musically Inspired – Hazy Memories

         Bright lights, pounding music, flashing colours, swarms of people… liquid tumbling down my throat, filling my belly with warmth… the city feels alive and dead at the same time… its energy coursing through me, spurring me on and…

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    Musings from a Skyscraper

         Is there anything out there beyond the mass of towers stretching into the heavens? Buildings pop up from the ground in all directions, floor upon floor precariously stacked on each other. Dozens of identical windows line each one,…

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    Musings from Bristo Square

        The sun beats down hard, as if it were trying to burn through the ground. It’s hot, unusually hot for the city at any time of year, and the population is out in force, soaking up the rays…

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    642 Things – Park Bench

    “Never underestimate the lives of old men sitting on park benches” (source)     Every day for the past seven months, I have walked the same route to and from work. I walk through the park, that little green haven…

  • Musings & Thoughts,  Other

    Musings on a Rainy Afternoon

         Rain. More rain. Always rain. Streaming down the windows, trickling in the gutters, running in rivers along the street. It’s as if the sky has had it heart broken for the first time, and the tears can’t stop…