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Moaning (&Me)

I was thinking of what I would like to write about for ‘yesanotherblog’ and a number of themes/topics popped up in my mind: poetry (& me), film(making) (&me), picture making (& me), music (&me). The ‘&me’ angle is designed to personalize the writing – making it less an objective statement and more a subjective expression. I hope to explore all the above-mentioned topics in the time ahead. They…

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Film (making) & Me My earliest memory of seeing a film projected goes back (I think) to my years at junior school. I’m pretty sure it was a 16mm projected screening of The Wizard of Oz – took place in the assembly hall. Then there were the Saturday mornings in a cinema auditorium filled mostly with young kids (myself included). I don’t remember much in detail but have a warm feeling inside when…

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Dust (4 June 2016 – 4 June 2021)

Dust (4 June 2016 – 4 June 2021)

5 years ago, I sat down and decided to write without a reason. That was June 4 in 2016. Today I return to that text that began with “I continue to deal in broad brushstrokes as well as details best handled by either a 2 H pencil or a finely tipped ink type thing.”The broad-brush strokes are partial to charcoal, 4B pencils and silence. I added this sentence today. And continued to edit and…

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COVID-19 INTO ITS 2nd YEAR

COVID-19 INTO ITS 2nd YEAR

The world is well into the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic. So far the toilet paper and pasta seem to be holding up well. I recall reading, sometime at the end of February – about a virus alert in Italy. Alarmingly large numbers of people were becoming infected by a severe respiratory virus and the number of deaths was also alarming. I recall distinctly reading that an entire region had…

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Dean interviews M G Boulter

Dean interviews M G Boulter

21 FRAGMENTS: LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 / an online collaboration involving 29 people, from around the world (musicians, visual artists, writers, filmmakers).

Between June and November 2020 – the project seeks to explore these unusual times in a world of pandemic — through picture, word and music, poetry, song, essay and visual art.

As part of the project, I am reaching out to the…

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Creativity

If we are to be shipwrecks in the desert, then let there be storms as well as safe harbours, wind as well as its absence, suns, and moons shaping tideless tides, imagination framing the frameless pictures and silence inviting words aboard and weighing and dropping anchor as shipwrecks in the desert.

Creating is a process that challenges us every step we take — A song? A musical…

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A New Chapter Begins / Coach - Trainer - Artist

A New Chapter Begins / Coach – Trainer – Artist

2020 has been very much about personal growth. And a new chapter of life, for everyone, during this time of a global pandemic. A freshly completed full-time Coach & Trainer course has given me new skills, methods, techniques – and copious amounts of inspiration. The rest of 2020 will be about growing the new chapter of my working life as a coach and trainer, artist, and curator. Coaching is very…

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WHY I’M NOT INTO CONSPIRACY THEORIES – ESPECIALLY IN 2020 I read somewhere one shouldn’t make fun of conspiracy theory (posts). Well fuck that – I find them irritating, insulting, and yes – dangerous.

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LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 / 21 Fragments - looking back looking forward & vice versa

LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 / 21 Fragments – looking back looking forward & vice versa

21 Fragments: Life in the time of Covid-19 / an online collaboration – approaches the half-way point. I conceived the project back in April. It was 2 April 2020 – to be specific.

I had been harboring a wish to create a new online collaboration – after the highly rewarding experience of my first attempt at such a project (53 Fragments – in five parts).

At the start of 2020 I found the…

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Toilet Paper And Masks

Toilet Paper And Masks

We are into the middle of 2020 (though given the nature of calendars, years defined by different cultures and traditions – ambiguity is close at hand).

It’s anywhere between a few months and 6 months that people around the world have, in one way or another, to one degree or another – been affected and impacted by Covid-19.

There is nowhere to run away to from 2020’s pandemic. Entire…

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A COMMON PLACE BLOG GOES LIVE / & with it – also my latest project: LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 An online multi-media collaborationRunning until October 2020

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Salt, Water & Being Open “Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.” - Buddha Siddhartha Guatama Shakyamuni -

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21 Fragments - Life in the time of Covid-19 (coming soon)

21 Fragments – Life in the time of Covid-19 (coming soon)

( Below are some thoughts I originally wrote and posted back in December 2014

Today I took the time to go through the 14 (now 15) presented fragments of 53 Fragments. I started with the most recent and worked my way backwards to the first one (first presented on September 9 this year / 2014).

I looked at the picture first – taking it in as a stand-alone thing and also as a response to…

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Sympathy and Compassion in the time of Covid-19

Sympathy and Compassion in the time of Covid-19

What my first ‘yes another soapbox’ blog-post didn’t focus on is sympathy and compassion.  It didn’t look at the aspect of the economic impact, on individuals (and the corporate world) and the challenge of aligning the economic with the health dimension (a pandemic’s dimensions of infection and death).

Whether it is a self-employed Life Coach / Business Coach / Language trainer, or a…

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yes another soapbox

With Tantrum Trump monopolizing the fields of satire, disruption and outrage, and Covid-19 dominating global grief, conspiracy garbage, and pandemic death – it’s difficult to get a handle on the events that have consumed life in 2020 – everywhere and for everyone (though some more or less so than others). That Trump exists is an indisputable fact – It’s not a fake truth or a figment of anyone’s…

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Rain, Poetry And Thunder

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Gratitude and Redressing Inequality

Every one is precious. I am usually cautious with the expression ‘hero’ – all my life I have experienced inspiration from other people. I have noticed this has been independent of their social position, economic worth, their gender, sexual preferences, colour or creed. We are all heroes – but I also see these are special times, revealing the value of certain groups of people more than ever before.