Riding the cusp between imagination and reality…
A couple of days ago, I had one of those moments where I found myself ridiculously overjoyed by something very simple that I’d said… It was a short lived moment, interrupted by a mallard flying out in front of my car. I hit my brakes and called it a bastard as I managed not to […]
Read More Because…Today I sat down to doodle and see what image my hand would, bring me for 2021… It doodled out a familiar shape… A chambered nautilus, familiar to me as I’d seen this image last year in mindscape sessions… I wry smiled thinking that 2020 had not left the building… But then I guess the […]
Read More New Year… Old Patterns…Often of an evening, I pick up people that I’ve dropped off in the morning and they ask me – Karen, what sort have day have you had? I invariably reply that it’s either been good or great, which then leads to the further question of – Oh, so what did you do? Now some […]
Read More Wasting TimeA curious thing happened with my waxing today… For some reason or another, I took photo after photo and none of them would catch the colour that I saw on the page… On the page was a green Knight, though the camera turned his helmet silver and made him a Knight in shining armour… Knight […]
Read More Waxtober 12Saturday evening, out walking with Mr S, we came to a lopsided cross-roads. He wanted to go off to the left… I turned my nose up at the idea as it looked like a dead-end… Oh you do what you want he said, I’m going that way. I pottered around at the cross-roads thinking all […]
Read More More on MindscapeThis morning, Ke gawped at me, jaw hanging, eyes wide in disbelief. She let out long sigh – Wow Karen, you’ve certainly got someone looking over you. Your guardian angels sure know when to turn up… I’d just explained why I was out of character late arriving and why I was in the Battle Bus […]
Read More What Dads DoIt’s funny how memories change… It’s funny how memories differ… It’s funny how lost notebooks resurface… The D. O. didn’t start off as the D. O. There’s been a long list of names proposed and discarded since co-conception. Though the solid working title which reflected the original aim of the project was Ferrytales – tales […]
Read More From D. O. to OOEvery so often, Mr S commandeers my car. It’s not a bad thing, he dumps me at work first and then I’m left with a walk home. It’s a walk I enjoy. It’s downhill all the way and more often than not, on the days it happens I’m usually rolling something around my head and […]
Read More Negative SolutionsYesterday was a day put aside for play but rain put paid to that. Instead it turned into a good day’s work, with myself and C laying down the underpinning structure for our next project together. I guess that’s the thing when you decide you’re going to speak to Old Gods… They like to hold […]
Read More Defining BoundariesI’m the first to admit that I’m my own worst enemy and certainly over the last couple of days I’ve been kicking myself, thinking I’ve set myself a bigger challenge that I can meet… In one of my ‘Oh, I’ve got a good idea’ moments, I decided to write a poem for each card in […]
Read More Knowing the Type
The pure and blessed way 