Category: Creativity
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Pet rocks and pebbling people
Many, many months ago, I wrote a post about ‘penguin-pebbling’ (here). It’s a lovely little bit of romance-rizz where a penguin creates an attractive pile of rocks to woo his intended love interest… or any love interest… I’m not sure if penguins mate for life… or how flirty they are……
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“Bending” – a faceless (anti)monument
My news feed is currently filled with images of a giant Triumphal Arch proposed for the United States of America. As a result, my mind has been bouncing around about the human need to build monuments to ourselves. In my PhD dissertation (I graduated late last year after PhD’ing with…
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DIY healing wand
Everyone, everywhere, who suffers from chronic pain would love to have a magic wand that they could abracadabra their pain away. At least, I assume so, which is possibly overreach… but I doubt it. Anyway – the idea of making myself a magic wand has been simmering in the backburners…
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Ugly art therapy
I’m a big believer in ‘the art of distraction‘ and know from firsthand experience that when we slip into ‘the flow’ of creating something (be it sewing, kiddy craft or a short story) we can forget about time, our surroundings, and most importantly, our pain. I’ve also written in the…
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“We are waves in the same ocean”
The above quote is shamelessly taken directly from another blogger’s post – Raffaello Palandri writes a beautiful blog that covers everything from philosophy to Tai Chi, meditation, Buddhism, art and photography – it is one of my favorite places to visit in blog-land. In a post I tagged a year…
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Practicing being #authentic
Now that I have a little more time on my hands (with the PhD finished), and after I hilariously botched up my selfies for the “kiddy craft for migraines” post, I decided to learn a little more about how to take photographs… just on my phone… nothing fancy… or too…
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At home in a dark place (a short story)
She was an architectural student of mine, decades ago. I can’t remember her name, only her PhD research topic. Raised on horror movies, she wanted to find the common thread that ran through the stories that scared her the most. And she wanted to present her investigation in the form…
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The single song of the universe
I’ve always been a huge fan of rebus puzzles – those graphic word games where you have to figure out a phrase based on the way that the text and pictures are arranged. Examples include the word ‘close’ written twice next to the word ‘comfort’ written four times (2 close…
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A letter from my future self
Late last year I read a lovely post over on the blog Urban Wellbeing Tips, which was titled “Sunday letter to my younger self what I know now”. The idea of such a letter is not a new thing, but Rohitash has a lovely way with words, so be sure…
The Mindful Migraine 