Painting With Shadows

Conversation snippets Philosophy

Who's the Philosopher?

"So how did your philosophy class go last night? " Brilliant! I was on a roll. They laughed, they learned, and they all intend to ...Read More

And suddenly the nerves hit.

It’s half an hour or so until I leave to teach the first class of a new Philosophy Adult Education Evening Course at the local Community Cen...Read More

Mental and Physical Health Who am I?

And then the sun came out

Perhaps I should have been clearer in my last post that when I refered to “normal”, what I really meant was “normal for me”. Perish the thou...Read More

Mental and Physical Health Who am I?

To feel normal again...

. What is normal? I’m not sure I really know anymore. Since the doctor upped the amitriptyline to 25mg instead of 10 a fortnight ago, I’ve n...Read More

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Mish-mash

I'm off for a couple of days but wasn't sure what to post, so here's a wee selection of things I meant to write more about but h...Read More

Reflections Who am I?

What a guy!

I don’t always have much desire to praise my former self. In fact, if I’m honest I tend to find myself increasingly annoyed and pissed off a...Read More

Philosophy Religion Trying to make sense of my existence in the universe Who am I?

Past, Present or Future - Where Do You Live?

Very few of us truly tend to live in the present; for the most part we live in the past or the future. At it’s extreme this can lead to eith...Read More

Family Man Food

A Bumper Crop

The brambling was good this weekend. Rogan, Meg & I went on one of our most successful bramble hunts ever. The briars were laden with th...Read More

CFS / ME Mental and Physical Health Who am I?

Selective memory

It never ceases to surprise me: my ability to filter out and selectively forget my condition. It’s nearly a year and a half since Maggie fir...Read More

Food Philosophy Reflections Religion Trying to make sense of my existence in the universe Weight loss

Ancient Philosophical Conundrum

. If I eat a chocolate bar on a fallen tree in a forest, but nobody sees me, does it have any calories? .Read More

Reasons for living in Galloway #27

Wander into a newsagent on any day of the week and a quick scan of the headlines will show a world that is at war on terror, that global env...Read More

Audio Food Local

The Biggest Bramble You Ever Did See

powered by ODEO I picked and I plucked, was scratched and stung, but slowly and steadily filled my tub with the wildest, ripest, tastiest br...Read More

CFS / ME Mental and Physical Health

Light at the end of the tunnel or just spots before my eyes?

Could I cope if it was just the tiredness and low energy? I’d probably still be pissed off about it, but what’s really been crippling is the...Read More

Family Man Fatherhood

Harry Potter and the Relief of Finishing the Final Book Before Anyone Gave Away the Ending.

Rogan was not yet 7 years old when I started reading him Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone as I settled him down at night, but he ab...Read More

Artists Family Man Reflections

Disorganised Chaos

My father is an Artist. My mother was a former English and Music teacher. When I was a child, the bookcase was a battleground. My father wou...Read More

Mental and Physical Health Trying to make sense of my existence in the universe

The latest visit to the doctor

“The test results are back and they’re quite conclusive.” “And?” “Your problem is caused by a severe fat and sugar deficiency. It seems the ...Read More

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