Wednesday, February 27, 2013 Full prompt here The 11th Possibility is the idea that, regardless of data to the contrary, something unexpected and outside the realm of ordinary thought is always potentially around the corner. “A coin is flipped 10 times, and in each instance lands on either heads or tails. But even after the …
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Prompts for the Promptless Ep1 Wabi-Sabi
I am a little behind on this one, but delighted to have found one more inspirational push. The full prompt is here Wednesday, February 20, 2013 Wabi-sabi is the beauty of the imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is the beauty of things unconventional and modest. It’s not just a style of art, it’s a world …
Educating the young
I was up at our island’s Community School yesterday afternoon – my friend Gill and I are helping out with an after-school knitting group. It has been going for a few weeks now and the kids (Senior 1 & 2) are now able to talk and Knit at the same time (after yesterday, they can …
Sandwiched
There is an odd and pungent smell in my Studio. Odd, until you realise what I am up to in there. This is not the usual eau-de-mouton emanating from my stash of fleece. I recently took delivery of a three tier seed sprouter. The only location in my home that satisfies all of the sprouter’s …
Odd
It has been an odd week, a very odd week indeed. There has been some kind of bug around that manifested itself by making me feel both completely exhausted and totally disinterested in anything at all. There have been parcels and packages but none sent me scurrying oven-ward. In short, there has been moping. Today …
Chia Ambrosia
Before leaving to go to town on Friday I ate up what remained of the Chia pudding. It seemed to me that if the claims made for Chia are anything like truthful then it was just the fuel food required for my expedition. I can report that when the cafeteria on the boat opened I …